Category: Environment

The last Indian/Asiatic cheetah was killed in 1947 in the jungles of central India. Now, with the country celebrating the 75th year of its Independenc

Water, sediments and biota (animal and plant life) in the Sal river, a major water body in South Goa, are contaminated with microplastics (MPs), the m

A dedicated dolphin reserve is being planned in the Hastinapur Wildlife Sanctuary which is a protected area in the Gangetic plains of Uttar Pradesh.

Tremors were reported from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh following an earthquake in the Bay of Bengal today. According to the National Centre for Seismol

Young people living in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan are among those most at risk of the impacts of climate change, threatening their he

Entomologists from Bengaluru-based Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE) have discovered two new species of rare ants, from the

An estimated 12,852 leopards were counted in the tiger range landscape in 2018, a significant increase from 2014 when the figure stood at 7,910 in for

India achieved the target of doubling of tiger population four years ahead of schedule of the St. Petersburg Declaration on Tiger Conservation, Prime