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Author Deepak Dalal’s new books for young readers put the spotlight on conservation

Author Deepak Dalal’s two new books, one set in Lakshadweep Islands and the other on Snow Leopard Adventure in the Himalayas, create a connection between young readers and wildlife, and eventually conservation

The smartphone captured images, and the Galaxy device used artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse images for ophthalmic diseases.

Old Samsung Galaxy phones are recycled into medical devices

Sowmya Ramasubramanian

A collared Bar Headed Goose at Hadinaru lake near Mysuru. The bird had been tagged at Arkhangai province in Central Mongolia. Photo: MS Darshan

Bar Headed Goose at Hadinaru with a Mongolian ‘address’ around its neck

Prince Frederick On a remote-working arrangement in his hometown Mysuru, an IT professional from Chennai studies the species at Hadinaru freshwater lake during weekends, and connects with Mongolian conservation scientists to decrypt the story of a collared bird

An ice shelf in Antarctica. File photo for representation.

Third of Antarctic ice shelf area at collapse risk due to global warming: Study

PTI They noted that when melted ice accumulates on the surface of ice shelves, it can make them fracture and collapse spectacularly.

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First look: The new species was found during a survey of finches across the Eastern Himalayas.

New species from Arunachal added to India’s bird list

Rahul Karmakar BNHS team spotted the three-banded rosefinch at an altitude higher than its recorded perch in China.

In this July 21, 2017 file photo a polar bear walks over sea ice floating in the Victoria Strait in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

Polar bears forced to forage eggs as warming shrinks hunting grounds: study

AFP Some bears are also coming ashore at the same time seabirds are nesting and are snacking on their eggs.

Here’s how zoos across India are preparing for the great Indian summer

Nivedita Ganguly Despite the challenges of the pandemic, the zoos are geared up to beat the heat with sprinklers, khus-khus mats and fruity animal treats

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A researcher at Nanyang Technological University's attaching an electrode on the surface of a Venus flytrap plant at a laboratory in Singapore, as scientists develop a high-tech system for communicating with vegetation.

Watch | Scientists develop ‘robo-plants’ to interact with plants

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Dolphin boom in Odisha’s Chilika lake

CSIR removes NEERI head Rakesh Kumar as Director

Conservation Environment

How wildlife trade features in the day-to-day politics of Assam

Author Deepak Dalal’s new books for young readers put the spotlight on conservation

Old Samsung Galaxy phones are recycled into medical devices

Third of Antarctic ice shelf area at collapse risk due to global warming: Study

Bar Headed Goose at Hadinaru with a Mongolian ‘address’ around its neck

On a remote-working arrangement in his hometown Mysuru, an IT professional from Chennai studies the species at Hadinaru freshwater lake during weekends, and connects with Mongolian conservation scientists to decrypt the story of a collared bird

New species from Arunachal added to India’s bird list

BNHS team spotted the three-banded rosefinch at an altitude higher than its recorded perch in China.

Watch | Scientists develop ‘robo-plants’ to interact with plants

A video on 'robo-plants', a high-tech system for communicating with vegetation.

Polar bears forced to forage eggs as warming shrinks hunting grounds: study

Some bears are also coming ashore at the same time seabirds are nesting and are snacking on their eggs.

Here’s how zoos across India are preparing for the great Indian summer

Despite the challenges of the pandemic, the zoos are geared up to beat the heat with sprinklers, khus-khus mats and fruity animal treats

This is the greenest DIY home décor trend that everyone is raving about

Made a terrarium yet? Social media is brimming with accounts — of novices and experts — that specialise in these miniature gardens, the numbers steadily growing.

With second wave of bird flu, hundred birds found dead in Himachal Pradesh

Like the previous outbreak, most of the victims are bar-headed geese

Climate change shrinks marine life richness near equator: study

Having fleets of fish and other swimmers shift rapidly to more temperate waters could devastate the coral ecosystems they leave behind.

Chennai resident sights two rare warblers at home on the same day

The city falls in the migration route of the passage migrants Western Crowned Warbler and Large-billed Leaf Warbler. As these birds ‘pass through a narrow window of time’, there are not many records of them from these parts

Zoo officials take special steps to keep animals cool this summer

We are also providing glucose and B-complex in the diet, says Curator

Greens ask parties to draft report on status of Western Ghats

Manifesto listing slew of measures to combat climate change submitted

Europe's heat and drought crop losses tripled in 50 years: study

The study said the punishing heat wave and drought of 2018 in Europe caused a decrease in grain production of 8%

Three new migratory bird species spotted in Coimbatore

The migratory birds will arrive from various parts of the world to the tank from the first week of October and depart by end of March the next year.

In Tamil Nadu, environment is good politics

There seems to be a shift from prioritising expressways and megaports to agriculture and forests

The day of the urial

Despite the severe stress on the species and its declining numbers, the urial continues to hang on

This Chennai visitor does not grant birders an easy audience

The Terek Sandpiper’s forehead is a cliff dressed in feathers. The bird would still be headbutted out of a “Mr. Steep Forehead” contest. The Pied

Sunday Quiz | On dinosaurs

If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur: Anonymous

Meet the 18-year-old environmental activist fighting air pollution in Punjab

Winner of Let Me Breathe’s Clean Air Punjab Competition, Akshyae Singh, talks about the discourse around pollution

India pushes deadline for coal-fired utilities to adopt new emission norms

India had initially set a 2017 deadline for thermal powerplants to install Flue Gas Desulphurization units that cutemissions of sulphur dioxides.

Are our leaders awaiting a vaccine for the environment?

COVID-19 has negatively affected not just laws, but has given rise to job losses among protected area rangers, and reduced anti-poaching patrols and environmental protection rollbacks

Closed throughout 2020-21 due to COVID, bird flu, Delhi zoo sees animal deaths fall to 3-year low

The zoo lost two tigress, a tiger and two cubs in the last one year.

Apple’s‌ ‌renewable‌ ‌energy‌ practices ‌power‌ ‌up‌ ‌with‌ ‌110-plus‌ ‌suppliers‌, including those from India

A new energy storage project marks the next phase of Apple’s efforts to become carbon neutral for its supply chain and products by 2030. The new eco-conscious manufacturing partners include suppliers from India

Watch | Brittany's pink granite coast

A video on Côte de Granit Rose on the coast of France's Brittany

Dal Lake among several others in J&K to be declared protected wetlands

The other lakes which are to be declared protected wetlands include Purmandal lake, also called Chotta Kashi, located in Samba district.

Area in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg named as biodiversity heritage site

A new freshwater fish species — Schistura Hiranyakeshi — was discovered near Amboli in Sawantwadi tehsil of Sindhudurg district.

When the season’s last fleet of migratory birds flew over Madurai

Photographer S Venkatesh captures flamingos and several other rare birds in Madurai's water tanks as the migration season of the birds draws to a close

44 species of odonates spotted in Kole fields

Year-long study to document diversity of damselflies, dragonflies

New sub-species of six-line blue butterfly discovered from south Western Ghats

One of the authors says that this was the first time a new species was discovered by an all-Indian research team from the Western Ghats.

Watch | Icelandic volcano's first eruption in 900 years

A video on the volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland

Blackbuck haven beckons nature, wildlife enthusiasts

‘Plan to make it a tourism centre given the rarity of sighting’

27 migratory birds found dead at Himachal wildlife sanctuary

Avian influenza (H5N1) led to the death of over 5,000 migratory birds in the Pong Dam Wildlife Sanctuary area in Kangra district

Delhi zoo may get three more tigers for breeding

Ostriches and chinkaras to be added

U.S. bald eagle soars back from near-extinction

Decades of protection efforts including banning of DDT pesticides have resulted in the bird flourishing

New species of red algae seen in west, south east Indian coast

As the two species have been found on the west and south east coasts of India, it suggests good prospects for their cultivation which can be put to good use economically.

African elephants face growing risk of extinction: IUCN Red List

Despite the overall decline, some populations of forest elephants were rebounding due to successful conservation measures such as those taken by Gabon and Republic of Congo

Preserving our freshwater

Over the last century, our consumption rate of the resource has gone up rapidly

Celebrate an eco-friendly Holi with organic and skin-safe colours

As Holi nears, here is a look at some home-grown brands that offer organic, skin-safe colours to make your celebrations guilt-free

Govt. urged to declare submerged coral reefs as ecologically sensitive

They are located about 120 nautical miles from Mangaluru coast

Farming in space may be possible, says study

Novel bacterial strains likely to help create ‘fuel’ to aid plants take stress

Arctic warming is causing heat waves in India: study

Results of study published in a reputed British journal

Want that perfect bird shot? How Zhayynn James went about conceptualising photography hides

Wildlife photographer Zhayynn James transformed a space in his farmland into a photography hide that is now a hangout for 44 avian species and 11 non avian species

Environment Monitoring and Action Initiating invites applications for house sparrow population survey

This initiative is aimed at making sparrow conservation in the city a community-driven activity that creates awareness and urges action.

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