By Sahana Ghosh Kolkata, March 18 (IANS) The Arabian Sea, cradling a diversity of marine habitats including coral reefs, is witnessing acidification of its surface waters, a consequence of excessive carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,…
Bangkok, March 18 (IANS) Thai hoteliers in major tourist destinations are preparing measures to deal with serious drought this summer, the media reported on Friday. Members of the Thai Hotels Association (THA) are running water-saving…
Toronto, March 18 (IANS) Some baby monkeys develop faster than others in the same population, and this is best explained by the threat of infanticide they face from adult males, says a study. “Infanticide occurs…
Beijing, March 18 (IANS) China is set to adopt its first national standard on laboratory animal welfare and ethics by the end of this year, the media reported on Friday. The draft, which is available…
Jammu/Srinagar, March 18 (IANS) Incessant rains continued on Friday in Jammu and Kashmir even as the weather office dispelled fears of any impending floods in the state. “Let me make it clear, there is no…
New York, March 18 (IANS) Researchers have discovered a new species of pale-gold coloured frog in the cloud forests of the high Andes in Colombia. Its name, Pristimantis dorado, commemorates both its colour (dorado means…
New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) It is likely to rain in the national capital as the sky remained partly cloudy on Friday and the temperature remained 22.2 degrees Celsius, the weather office said. “Rain and…
New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) The government’s Domestic Efficient Lighting Programme (DELP) will help save up to $6.5 billion annually through energy efficiency and also help reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80 million tonnes, Power…
New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) The South Delhi Municipal Corporation has intensified efforts to replace all streetlights with LED-based energy efficient ones, SDMC Mayor Subhash Arya said on Thursday. The decision was taken at a…
New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) The railways on Thursday asked the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to undertake a study on how to ensure running of trains smoothly during the foggy winter season, especially in…
Bhubaneswar, March 17 (IANS) The Odisha government’s endeavour to make the state free of open defecation by 2019 looks almost impossible to achieve, a senior Unicef official said on Thursday. “The Odisha government has to…
By Anil Giri Pokhara, March 17 (IANS) India and Pakistan are vying to host the Saarc Environment and Disaster Management Centre, a new body to look into the environment- and disaster-related issues in the region….
London, March 17 (IANS) The repeated storms which battered Europe’s Atlantic coastline during the winter of 2013-14 were the most energetic in almost seventy years, new research has found. In the study published in the…
New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) Union minister Uma Bharti will release a detailed project report (DPR) on forestry intervention for the Ganga river here on March 22. Forestry interventions all along the river course have…
Srinagar, March 17 (IANS) Rains lashed the plains of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday while higher reaches received fresh snowfall, the weather office here said. “There has been fresh snowfall in all the higher reaches…
Beijing, March 17 (IANS) Forestry authorities in China’s Sichuan province confirmed the sighting of a white-eared night heron, the most endangered of the heron species, numbering less than 1,000 globally. Jin Deqiang, an official in…
Singapore, March 17 (IANS) Singapore is in the midst of an unusual heatwave, with temperatures comparable to the warmest March on record expected over the next fortnight. People on Thursday were seen cooling off in…
Washington, March 17 (IANS) Not just water and oxygen, life thrived on early Earth thanks to another necessary ingredient: the presence of a protective magnetic field. A new study of the young, Sun-like star Kappa…
New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) It was a sunny morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 16.8 degrees Celsius, zero notch above the season’s average (16.5 degree Celsius is the season’s average), the weather…
Beijing, March 17 (IANS) China is building a tsunami alert centre in the South China Sea, a media report said on Thursday. The facility is being constructed in the South China Sea, Wang Hong, chief…