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DTE at COP16: Indigenous peoples and local communities to take centrestage in works towards protecting nature

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


Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 18, 2024)

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


How unmanaged vehicle charging can affect power grids, disrupt Nairobi's EV transition

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 research refutes claim that the African Baobab is dying due to climate change

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


Iralai Maan: How Blackbuck featured in Sangam literature

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


Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 17, 2024)

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


Long live the King Cobra(s): Scientists recategorise world's longest venomous snakes into 4 distinct species, with one from the Western Ghats

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


The Green Kitchen Season 2, Episode 3: Food historian Pushpesh Pant explains how Kulthi Dal is beneficial for kidney stones

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


Artificial nests boost breeding success by 16.5% in endangered African penguins

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


Afro-descendent people in Latin America and the Caribbean demand recognition and inclusion in CBD processes

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