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A Leatherback turtle on the Galathea Bay nesting beach, Great Nicobar Island. File

Green panel allows Great Nicobar plan to advance

Pankaj Sekhsaria

Environment Appraisal Committee which flagged concerns over project has now ‘recommended’ it ‘for grant of terms of reference’ for EIA studies

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A newborn mountain bongo, the largest of African forest antelopes, is seen in the Warsaw Zoo, Poland May 6, 2021.

Baby bongo: Critically endangered antelope makes debut at Polish zoo

A blue-and-yellow macaw that zookeepers named Juliet perches on a branch outside the enclosure where captive macaws are kept, at BioParque in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, May 5, 2021.

Last wild macaw in Rio is lonely and looking for love

AP Juliet hasn’t coupled, built a nest or had chicks, so at most she’s “still just dating.”

Developing protocols: Indian and Chinese pangolins are both endangered, therefore, it is important to identify species and the number poached.

Wildlife forensics helps cause of pangolins

Aswathi Pacha Researchers sequenced 624 pangolin scales, categorising the species

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Oriental skylark foraging on plastic

Photographs of Nature to highlight plastic pollution in the wild

K Jeshi A social media campaign featuring photographs of birds amid plastic pollutants tweeted with #SayNo2Plastic, highlighted the life-threatening side of the material

White-rumped vulture

Why vultures are important to protect nature

K Jeshi Arulagam Foundation’s Instagram video throws light on why the much-maligned vultures are vital for infection control in our ecosystem

The business of gardening continues to bloom across India amid the pandemic

Priyadarshini Paitandy Nivedita Ganguly As first-time gardeners find comfort in nurturing plants and growing their own food at home, nurseries across the country bolster their inventory to keep up with rapid sales

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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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A Leatherback turtle on the Galathea Bay nesting beach, Great Nicobar Island. File

Green panel allows Great Nicobar plan to advance

Baby bongo: Critically endangered antelope makes debut at Polish zoo

Last wild macaw in Rio is lonely and looking for love

Wildlife forensics helps cause of pangolins

How donkeys digging wells help life thrive in the desert

The business of gardening continues to bloom across India amid the pandemic

It’s a goal for Forest Department in Tamil Nadu as it nets wild elephant Rivaldo

Pachyderm had got used to humans and stayed near village for months

Germany could lose last glaciers in 10 years

Scientists had previously estimated the glaciers would be around until the middle of the century. But the melting has accelerated dramatically over the last years.

Why vultures are important to protect nature

Arulagam Foundation’s Instagram video throws light on why the much-maligned vultures are vital for infection control in our ecosystem

New species of shrew discovered in Andamans’ Narcondam Island

Crocidura narcondamica, an insectivorous mammal, was found in the volcanic and uninhabited island.

This woman-run startup uses crop residue to create bio-batteries

Solving three problems at once, Odisha startup Nexus Power uses crop remnants to create bio-organic, fast-charging batteries for electric vehicles

Ghost forests, an indicator of climate change

Grey and barren dead trees dotting coastal regions across many parts of the world are the immediate consequences of sea-level rise. With climate change bringing in more threats in the form of coastal erosion, frequent hurricanes and drought, things can only get worse for coastal vegetation.

TUDA plans ‘mini forest’ near Tirupati

It is based on reforestation approach advocated by Japanese botanist

Botanists spot new bryophyte species in Kerala

Bryocrumia malabarica discovered in Malabar Wildlife Sanctuary

‘Patriarchy and the Pangolin’ review: Ecology notes from the field

Aditi Patil and her team on what the National Agroforestry Policy means to the people on the ground

Melee of the macaques

Even though both people and monkeys eat pandanus fruit, the indigenous Nicobarese feel their produce belong to the monkeys

Mining robot stranded on Pacific Ocean floor in deep-sea mining trial

Critics, including environmentalist David Attenborough, say seabed mining is untested and has a largely unknown environmental impact

Gorilla among 200 endangered species threatened by conflict: conservationists

The report found that armed conflicts were particularly prevalent in some of the world's more bio-diverse regions

Two damselfly species discovered in Western Ghats

Euphaea thosegharensis and Euphaea pseudodispar were spotted at Thoseghar in Satara district of Maharashtra in May 2020

Photographs of Nature to highlight plastic pollution in the wild

A social media campaign featuring photographs of birds amid plastic pollutants tweeted with #SayNo2Plastic, highlighted the life-threatening side of the material

Carbon emissions are more than countries are reporting: study

There was a gap of about 5.5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year

Orchids in full bloom at the Kaziranga National Orchid Park in Assam

The Orchid park near Kaziranga National Park, Assam, is a treat for the eyes and a paradise for flower lovers

Good news for endangered Sumatran rhinoceros

A genome study points towards the prospects of saving the critically endangered species that is now found in small numbers in the islands of Borneo and Sumatra.

Three small Indian civets recovered in East Godavari

In Konaseema, one was eaten by locals while Forest officials rescued its two kittens

Riverine forest to get protection

Meenachil’s banks near Peroor are home to rare varieties of riparian plant species

Coronavirus | Centre contradicts Serum Institute of India on Covishield pricing, to purchase at ₹150 per dose

Poonawalla silent on Health Minister’s tweet that govt of India’s procurement cost remains ₹150/dose.

Groundwater depletion may reduce winter cropping intensity by 20% in India

Policy-supported intensive agriculture led to unsustainable groundwater use, water scarcity

Green Humour by Rohan Chakravarty

Who lives on Chennai’s beaches? The Chennai Coastal Biodiveristy Guide has the answer

Our beaches are not ours alone. We share them with a host of species including crabs, birds, and mangroves. The Chennai Coastal Biodiveristy Guide attempts to document our coastal neighbours

Cotton Pygmy Goose: Is this Thumbelina among water lilies reduced in numbers too?

Though a resident, this pint-sized bird remains largely elusive in Chennai’s urban waterbodies. State of India’s Birds 2020 report has raised concerns over its declining numbers

Designs for the future

Anupama Mohanram writes on the message behind Earth Day and why it needs to be sustained all year round

A supermoon and a meteor shower: astronomical events this April

The mild Lyrids meteor shower has been gracing our night sky without fanfare every April, for centuries. This year, it has to tussle with a supermoon for attention

A whale chorus reveals how climate change may be shifting migration

The team suspects water temperature is playing a key role in the unusual behaviour, with bowheads known to avoid water outside a narrow range of around -0.5 to 2 degrees centigrade.

Golden oriole to the Asian koel, a wealth of biodiversity

During lockdown, Kobita Dass Kolli and Lakshmi Prabhala documented birds, insects and plants in their backyards in Hyderabad and the result is a digital exhibition that opens for viewing on Earth Day 2021

Google Doodle celebrates Earth Day 2021 highlighting the importance of planting trees

The theme for this year's Earth Day is "Restore Our Earth" which focuses on natural processes and emerging green technologies that can restore the world's ecosystems

How to spot a snow leopard in its natural habitat

Ahead of Earth Day 2021, photographer Ismail Shariff — whose eye-catching wildlife photography of snow leopards in the Himalayas has gone viral — tells us how to pick out this elusive big cat in its natural habitat

Meet Ameronothrus twitter, new bug discovered via a tweet

At just 0.7 milimetres long, the mites are miniscule and harmless to people, Shimano said. They are a type of coastal mite that eats algae and lichen and lives in a group.

A campaign to save Visakhapatnam’s 2000-year-old Buddhist site of Thotlakonda

Historians and biologists campaign to protect the ancient Buddhist site of Thotlakonda in Visakhapatnam, which is home to an estimated 90 species of birds

Eastern India most vulnerable to climate change, says study

Assessment by two IITs and the IISc finds 24 of India’s 100 districts most vulnerable to climate change are in Assam

Ramanathapuram Forest Range Officer S Sathish on winning the International Ranger Award 2021

Satish won the award for his contribution to marine conservation at the Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park and Palk Bay region

Actor Gul Panag on lending voice to wildlife documentaries to be screened on World Earth Day

Actor Gul Panag talks about her experience lending voice to two wildlife documentaries by National Geographic that dive deep into conservation

Kadassery residents live in fear of wild cats

Repeated leopard sightings, attacks on livestock

Toyota to review climate stance as investors turn up the heat

The car maker came under scrutiny after siding with the Trump administration in 2019 in a bid to bar the state of California from setting its own fuel efficiency rules.

These women on the Trans Himalayan Cycling Tour are riding through ‘what will people say’

A fun Facebook post by feminist-activist Kamla Bhasin, of One Billion Rising, actually had a whole story behind it

Now, masks that grow into plants upon disposal

Paper Seed has come out with masks containing seeds

Only 3% of land areas unblemished by humans: study

Some scientists questioned the extremely low figure, saying it could be attributed to the study using a particularly narrow definition of “intact habitats”

How bycatch along the Indian coast poses a significant threat to enigmatic marine megafauna

Elasmobranchs (sharks, rays, skates and sawfish) are particularly vulnerable to exploitation due to their slow growth and are one of the most threatened marine animal groups across the world.

The Ken-Betwa project reflects the ill-conceived rationale behind river-linking

Last month, the UP and MP governments signed up for the Ken-Betwa project. But not only is it a shoddily conceived plan, the very rationale behind river-linking is dodgy

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