Reindeer are shrinking on an Arctic island near the North Pole in a side-effect of climate change that has curbed winter food for animals often depicted as pulling Father Christmas’ sleigh, scientists ...More

Paris: If Santa is recruiting helpers to haul Christmas presents around the world this year he had better take a few extra, said researchers Monday who warned that reindeer are shrinking. Over the pa ...More

A decade-long surge of the potent greenhouse gas methane threatens to make the fight against global warming even harder, top researchers warned. “Additional attention is urgently needed to quantify an ...More

PARIS: A decade-long surge of the potent greenhouse gas methane threatens to make the fight against global warmingeven harder, top researchers warned. "Additional attention is urgently needed to qu ...More

Global methane emissions from agriculture and other sources have surged in recent years, threatening efforts to slow climate change, an international study has found. Researchers led by French Labora ...More

PARIS: A decade-long surge of the potent greenhouse gas methane threatens to make the fight against global warmingeven harder, top researchers warned. "Additional attention is urgently needed to qu ...More

The National Zoological park, also known as Delhi zoo is in the dock again for allegedly circulating 'fake' details of bird census to establish the increase in number of migratory birds and eggs hatch ...More

COIMBATORE: Several thousand saplings are planted in every district each year. However, only one percent of these saplings become trees. To provide technical expertise and increase the survival rat ...More

WASHINGTON: Climate change may be to blame for the deadly avalanche in Tibet this year which claimed the nine lives, a new study has found. On July 17, more than 70 million tonnes of ice broke off ...More

NEW DELHI: The cost of serious health consequences from Particulate Matter pollution is estimated to be around 3 per cent of India's GDP, according to a Health Ministry statement in Lok Sabha today. ...More

The Agave plant, which can survive in the driest environments, is being studied to help engineer drought-resistant crops that can adapt to changing climate Agave – the cactus-like plant used to mak ...More

MUMBAI: In a monumental decision to safeguard animals in circuses, the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) has passed orders cancelling its recognition to 21 circuses for keeping wild animals. This means that ...More

The extent of sea ice in both Antarctica and the Arctic was at record lows in November, Reuters reported. Polar sea ice roughly the size of India has melted away in the regions because of rising globa ...More

Sea ice off Antarctica and in the Arctic is at record lows for this time of year after declining by twice the size of Alaska in a sign of rising global temperatures, climate scientists say. Against a ...More

No more elephants kicking footballs or standing on two legs in circuses across the country as the ministry of environment, forests and climate change (MoEFCC) has cancelled registration of seven such ...More

OSLO: Sea ice off Antarctica and in the Arctic is at record lows for this time of year after declining by twice the size of Alaska in a sign of rising global temperatures, climate scientists say. ...More

Last week, thousands of snow geese died in Montana after landing on "the acidic, metal-laden waters of an old open pit mine" to escape a snowstorm, the AP reported. Montana Resources, the mining compa ...More

OSLO: Sea ice off Antarctica and in the Arctic is at record lows for this time of year after declining by twice the size of Alaska in a sign of rising global temperatures, climate scientists say. ...More

Sea ice off Antarctica and in the Arctic is at record lows for this time of year after declining by twice the size of Alaska in a sign of rising global temperatures, climate scientists say. Against a ...More

The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has chalked out a project to develop a conservation action plan for the Gangetic River Dolphin to save the national aquatic animal from extinction. "The proje ...More