Environment

Unprecedented rise in greenhouse gases can decrease rainfall in the equatorial region with associated shift and vegetation, and also replace India’s biodiversity hotspots consisting of evergreen forests in the Western Ghats, northeast India and the Andamans into deciduous forests,...

A new metal oxide Nanocomposite has been developed that could well aid photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants like dyes and pharmaceuticals and hence can be used as sustainable technologies for cleaning up the environment. Metal oxide photocatalysis offers a sustainable...

Researchers have discovered a new genus of the Gomphonemoid diatom found in clean water river of Eastern Ghats. The genus which has an interesting suite of features, distinguishing it from the other members in the group Gomphonemoid in terms...

A significant ten states of the country including six Himalayan states have witnessed a major decline in its forest cover between 2017 and 2021 largely owing to deforestation while 26 states and Union Territories (UT) in the country have...

With India achieving the distinction of being the most populous country in the world last year, the per capita water availability in the country is reducing due to the population boom. Based on the study titled “Reassessment of Water...

It’s good news for wildlife enthusiasts. The fifth cycle leopard population estimation carried out by the National Tiger Conservation Authority and Wildlife Institute of India, in collaboration with State Forest Departments has recorded a significant rise of 8 percent...

More than one-third of India’s forest cover (35.46 %) is prone to frequent forest fires of which nearly 3 % is ‘Extremely Fire Prone’ while nearly 8 % of forest cover has been estimated to be ‘Very Highly Fire...

March 24, 2023: With an aim to make the city clean and pollution-free, Bio CNG would be produced from household wet waste churned out in different parts of the city every day. For this, a Bio CNG plant would...

March 24, 2023: It's good news for Ganga bhakts. Though critical pollution levels in Ganga water had hogged limelight for the past several decades, efforts over the years at various levels initiated by Central as-well-as State government to put...