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Indian wildlife - The illegal dragnet
9 March 2017 9:17 PM ISTIn 2005, forest officials and scientists shockingly revealed that Rajasthan's Sariska Tiger Reserve, once among the best places to see tigers, had...
Novel techniques of junk masters
26 Feb 2017 10:26 PM ISTMost of us never bother to know where the garbage from our households and localities ends up. It is forgotten once packed in dustbin bags and left for...
20th cent: 23-fold increase in natural resources
20 Feb 2017 9:11 PM ISTThe volume of natural resources used in buildings and transport infrastructure increased 23-fold between 1900 and 2010, according to our research....
Dealing with more droughts, floods and rains
10 Feb 2017 9:55 PM ISTGlobal warming has already increased the risk of major disruptions to Pacific rainfall, according to our research published today in Nature...
Missing the woods for wood
29 Jan 2017 9:58 PM ISTThere is a struggle for control over forests in India. On one side are forest communities and environmentalists, while on the other are...
Cheetahs disappearing faster than you thought
31 Dec 2016 3:26 AM ISTThe world's fastest land animal is heading towards extinction and “urgent, landscape-wide conservation action” needs to be taken, according to a study...
Understanding triggers for tsunamis
28 Dec 2016 3:14 AM ISTIt’s been a decade since one of the largest ever recorded earthquakes struck off the coast of Indonesia, triggering a massive tsunami which devastated...
Through prolonged haze, policy maze
16 Dec 2016 2:07 AM ISTThe national capital region of India continues to gasp for clean air even since the haze descended on October 30. The smog that emerged due to a...
Bhopal must never be forgotten
6 Dec 2016 2:41 AM ISTThirty-two years have passed since highly toxic methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the Union Carbide factory and sneaked into the surrounding slums....
Adopting bio-toilets for their affordability
18 Nov 2016 2:47 AM ISTCan massive amounts of human excrement be transformed and used to tackle waste management challenges? India is currently addressing this issue by...
2011-2015: Mighty hot five years
15 Nov 2016 2:30 AM ISTThe period from 2011 to 2015 has been the warmest five-year period on record globally. The average temperature in 2015 had already risen by more than...
Trump, don’t set a dangerous precedent
12 Nov 2016 3:40 AM ISTDonald Trump’s Presidency will be largely defined by his commitment to rolling back clean energy initiatives launched over the past eight years. The...