India, Oct. 21 -- The 16th Conference of Parties (COP16) under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) opened on October 21, 2024, in Colombia's Cali with a ceremonial function. The meeting was o... Read More
India, Oct. 21 -- The Supreme Court (SC) of India, on October 18, 2024, issued several directives to prohibit child marriages in India. The SC instructed states and Union Territories to appoint office... Read More
India, Oct. 21 -- The increase in electricity demand in Nairobi, Kenya due to electric vehicle (EV) adoption will be moderate but unmanaged charging, especially from private and commercial EVs, could ... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- New research by South African ecologists has refuted the claim that the African Baobab (Adansonia digitata) tree is dying due to climate change. A 2018 study published in Nature... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- The Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) has hogged the limelight since last weekend when Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Baba Siddique was shot dead in Mumbai. Though the med... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on October 15, 2024 directed Uttarakhand government to submit information regarding the feedback it had received from various stakeholders and t... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- The king cobra, the world's longest venomous snake, is no longer just one species. A new paper by scientists has reclassified the iconic animal into four distinct species from Ma... Read More
India, Oct. 17 -- Macrotyloma uniflorum (horsegram, also known as horse gram, kulthi bean, gahat, or hurali) is a legume native to tropical southern Asia, known for its distinct taste and texture, wid... Read More
India, Oct. 17 -- Artificial nests can enhance the breeding success of endangered African penguins, a new study by an international team of researchers from South Africa and the United Kingdom has fou... Read More
India, Oct. 17 -- Just ahead of the 16th Conference of Parties (COP16) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), people of Afro origin in Latin America and the Caribbean have reiterated their d... Read More