Environment

Artificial water sources in national parks may be keeping elephants off Kabini, say activists

R. Krishna Kumar

Recycling lake litter, Ugandan makes innovative tourist boat

Nations secure U.N. global high seas biodiversity pact

Very little of the high seas is subject to any protection, with pollution, acidification and overfishing posing a growing threat. Image for Representation.

Record 6.37 lakh Olive Ridley turtles arrive at Odisha’s Rushikulya beach for mass nesting

An Olive Ridley turtle is seen at the Rushikulya river mouth beach and laying eggs on their mass nesting time near to the Podampeta village in Ganjam district of Odisha.

Olive Ridley turtles also arrive at Gahirmatha beach in Odisha’s Kendrapara district, which is known as the world’s largest known rookery

The Hindu Bureau

Even with ‘moderate emissions’, India’s heat is set to get worse

Nations reach accord to protect marine life on high seas

Regulator’s guidelines on Rajasthan power lines ‘flout’ Supreme Court orders, threaten the Great Indian Bustard: Petitioner

High tension power lines in Rajasthan and Gujarat, from solar plants, often lay in the flight path of the Great Indian Bustard causing them to collide — often fatally — into them. File

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The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change in June 2022, notified the Forest (Conservation) Rules, 2022, which prescribed the mechanism for the diversion of forest land for non-forest purposes. File

Explained | Why is the tribal panel upset with Environment Ministry over forest rights?

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Great seahorse or Hippocampus kelloggi. Photo: Special Arrangement

With overfishing, great seahorses bolt from the Coromandel

Scores of disembowelled sharks have washed up on a South African beach putting the spotlight on a pair of shark-hunting killer whales whose behaviour has fascinated scientists and wildlife enthusiasts.

'Surgical' shark-killing orcas fascinate scientists

A Cheetah brought from South Africa is seen in an enclosure at Palpur, Kuno National Park, Madhya Pradesh on February 18, 2023.

Kuno National Park unsuitable to host all 20 cheetahs, not enough prey, says scientist

An aerial view of toxic blue-green algae bloom on the Baltic Sea coast at Tyreso near Stockholm, Sweden, June 25, 2020.

Phytoplankton blooms see two-decade surge along world's coastlines

A white throated Kingfisher waiting for a catch.

Thiruvananthapuram’s green cover has helped many bird species thrive in urban and suburban gardens

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What is this species of frog commonly called?

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Monkeys sit on tree branches against the backdrop of clouds hanging on the hills of Eastern Ghats in Araku

These organisations in Andhra Pradesh are working relentlessly for wildlife conservation

Nivedita Ganguly

Green Humour by Rohan Chakravarty

Rohan Chakravarty

A woman and child cool off in the ocean sparkling in the sunlight in Fort Kochi. File

Heatwaves likely from March to May: IMD forecast

The Hindu Bureau

For species classified as “extinct in the wild”, the zoos and botanical gardens where their fates hang by a thread are as often anterooms to oblivion as gateways to recovery. Image for Representation.

For animals extinct in the wild, even zoos may not be good enough

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches E20 fuel and flags off Green Mobility Rally at the occasion of India Energy Week 2023 in Bengaluru.

India wants energy transition on its own terms — without phasing out coal and with more grants