Many elephant matriarchs are killed early by poachers for their long tusks, forcing adolescent female elephants to step in and take their roles. Matriarchs, usually the oldest female in the famil...(more)
Maya Pedal is a Guatemalan non-profit that accept bikes donated from the USA and Canada and produces "bicimaquinas," or bicycle-powered machines. Pedal power can be harnessed for countless applic...(more)
Climate change is disrupting the seasonal behaviour of Britain’s plants and animals, with rising temperatures having an impact on species at different levels of the food chain, a Nature study s...(more)
In 2007, San Francisco banned plastic shopping bags, in 2014, the city banned plastic water bottles on city properties. A new ordinance ban all uses of styrofoam: packing peanuts, packaging for f...(more)
Adélie penguins have survived in Antarctica for nearly 45,000 years, but new research suggests that unique 21st-century climates may pose an existential threat to many of the colonies on the Ant...(more)
Over 200 Latin American organizations are calling on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for greater accountability in Canadian mining operations overseas. The organizations have written a let...(more)
Environmental activist, global star and renowned vegan Leonardo DiCaprio is joining a raft of stars and a powerful Indian Hindu nationalist group to urge people to stop eating beef. Leonardo DiCa...(more)
The Bramble Cay melomys, a small rodent that was the only mammal endemic to Great Barrier Reef has become extinct, Australian scientists say. It is also the first recorded global extinction of a ...(more)
Ocean Conservancy claims that China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam are spewing out as much as 60 percent of the plastic waste that enters the world’s seas. Only about 40 perc...(more)
About 25,000 litres of diesel fuel spilled by a tanker truck in central Alberta, Canada, went into a stream near Stettler that flows into the Red Deer River. Although government assessments have ...(more)
A British Company invention, Desolenator,can transform salt water and other un-potable water sources into pure, distilled water, for human consumption. This invention will generate 15 liters of p...(more)
Bryan Christy's plan was to embed fake tusks with GPS tracking devices in a black market in the Central African Republic. He expected the GPS tracked fake tusks to track east toward China, b...(more)
“When one farmer kills themselves you can call it suicide. But when a quarter of a million farmers kill themselves, these farmers are being killed by design.” So opens Cotton For My Shroud, a...(more)
The Norwegian parliament pledged the government’s public procurement policy will be deforestation-free after a committee of MPs recommended imposing regulations to ensure the state did "not con...(more)
In a world first, Indian Marine scientists from the Zoological Survey of India successfully restored thousands of years old dead Acropora Stag-horn coral reef by transplanting corals from a simil...(more)
In August 2014, workers completed the largest dam removal project in U.S. history, as the final part of the 210-foot-high Glines Canyon Dam was dismantled on the Elwha River in northwestern Washi...(more)
During hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to retrieve oil and natural gas, toxins like arsenic, cadmium, and lead are used. There are environmental and public health problems, from increased infa...(more)
Although the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has decommissioned the power plant, they have yet to locate the missing nuclear reactor fuel, suggesting the cores have completely melted into th...(more)
Water pricing is the only long-term, sustainable solution to promote efficient and equitable use of this precious natural resource. A 2015 study by the IMF says water subsidies provided through p...(more)
Environmentalists say that bugs from the polluted Yamuna river nearby are invading the 17th century monument, leaving greenish-black patches of waste on its pristine white marble walls. Over the ...(more)
Using biodegradable plastic water bottles and shopping bags marketed as a sustainable alternative to plastic waste that ends up in the sea, is not a simple solution to ocean waste problem, accord...(more)
Highlighting that the existing penalties are too meagre to be taken seriously by violators, the Environment ministry is looking to increase the fine from Rs 1 lakh to a minimum of Rs 5 crore and ...(more)
Lemur being hunted or forests being cut for coal mining may shock you, however, if local residents don't perceive the actions as crimes, then poaching and deforestation will continue. Taking...(more)
Since Arctic foxes live deep underground, and move too quickly to follow in real time, the colorful fox dens, in an otherwise gray landscape, are the key to better monitoring the population. The ...(more)
The most daunting effect of climate change is human displacement as it involves migration, protection of migrants and liability for climate change damage. 90% of 19.3 million people displaced glo...(more)
Once known as Garbage Island, Taiwan now has an impressive recycling rate of 55%. Taipei has about 4,000 pickup spots five nights a week, with mobile apps that let users track the trucks and aler...(more)
Waste collectors in developing countries spend their days sifting through garbage, in a task that’s dangerous and unhealthy, yet critical. But they earn a pittance and burn plastic endangering ...(more)
The Sundarbans are particularly susceptible to climate change. Huge amount of land in the delta has disappeared, and experts fear, the rising seas could submerge most of it in the next 20 years. ...(more)
The unprecedented red tide in Chile’s coastal waters—which has killed more than 20 million fish—has triggered protests and a public health crisis in the South American country.The virulent ...(more)
A major redistribution of sediments over a large region at the edge of northern lowlands in Mars, lead scientists to think that two huge tsunamis, caused by meteorites, have swept across the surf...(more)
The grizzly-polar bear hybrid shot by a hunter days ago in northern Canada, is either a grolar, if the father is a grizzly, or pizzly, if the father is a polar bear. Scientists say the two bear s...(more)
New research, that examined the link between cumulative carbon dioxide emissions and more frequent hot days, shows that the poorest fifth of the global population, especially African countries, w...(more)
A poll by WWF reveals close to 90 percent of New Zealand residents want to see the ecologically important Kermadec region protected. The proposed sanctuary covers 620,000 sq km of ocean in an are...(more)
The Pacific Ocean, in fact almost one-third of the Globe, is thought to have been contaminated from the leak out from the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. The massive expansion of ocean had diluted it...(more)
While the limit for dissolved oxygen levels set by the Central Pollution Control Board is 4 milligram per litre, it was less than one-fourth of the required levels in the water body where dead fi...(more)
Greenpeace found that 417 of 825 coal blocks in India fall within forest areas categorized as "inviolate" under hydrological parameters. This means, the coal blocks are encroaching the river bank...(more)
Where 795 million people in the world don't have enough food and the global population is rising fast, it could mean even less space to farm. In view of that, a Spanish firm is working to bu...(more)
With just 60 of Mexico’s vaquita marina left, the smallest porpoise is close to extinction, warned environmentalists. Despite the navy enforcing a ban on fishing gillnets, poachers use illegal ...(more)
The states of Washington, Oregon, Utah, and Colorado, have already made it illegal to collect rainwater on your property. The United States is now pushing to make it illegal to own rain as a natu...(more)
The concern is very real. With the Earth becoming warmer by more than a full degree Fahrenheit and sea levels raised by eight inches, even storm surge barriers and salinity control structures may...(more)
21 villages that have inhabited Odisha’s Simlipal Tiger Reserve for generations, developed and submitted management plans for the resources to the district administration. But unlike Soliga man...(more)
Through the efforts of the local community, the leopards of Jawai, a village in Pali district of Rajasthan, not only increased in number, but are living harmoniously amidst people. Now, reckless ...(more)
The recycling of e-waste is an extremely hazardous way to make a living. In India, it is estimated that 50 million workers perform this dangerous job and many of those employed to do this are chi...(more)
From battling it out in courts to marching in streets and pushing for government action, it took 6 years of efforts to save the 677-acre Mangar Bani forest between polluted Delhi and rapidly urba...(more)
Gurdwaras in the rural areas may now mobilise opinion against wheat stubble burning. The dense, poisonous smoke from wheat stubble burning raises serious environmental concerns such as death of f...(more)
Protests against the building of dams in India’s Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh and demanding the release of Lama Lobsang Gyatso, a Buddhist monk who had been arrested for having led the ...(more)
The fishermen and Chiloe locals suspect the dumping of decaying salmon in March is related to the wave of die-offs that happened in April. Chiloe residents say they’ve never witnessed anything ...(more)
Five islands have disappeared in the Pacific's Solomon Islands due to rising sea levels and coastal erosion. A further six reef islands have been severely eroded in the remote area of the So...(more)
Rooftops on new buildings built in commercial zones in France must either be partially covered in plants or solar panels, under a new law. Green roofs have an isolating effect, helping reduce the...(more)
Scientists have found icebergs are giant fertilizer bags for the ocean, which when melted, release minerals like iron into the ocean. These act like fertilizer, encouraging the growth of phytopla...(more)
Hundreds of environmental activists invaded Britain's Ffos-y-fran mine near South Wales and halted operations across the vast site. The action in Wales marks the start of a global wave of di...(more)
Thousands of Chilean fishermen have blocked roads with barricades in the region of Los Lagos, saying government efforts to mitigate the economic effects of a harmful algal bloom have been insuffi...(more)
Laporiya, near Jaipur, has ground water at 15-40 feet, and enough water for its population of nearly 2,000, even during summer. They also supply water to surrounding villages. Their chauka system...(more)
After the fire that has taken a toll on the flora and fauna of Yeoor forest range in Thane, scorching summer heat is making the chances of reviving the lost natural habitats low. 14 of the 46 wat...(more)
Steps like reducing meat consumption that highly impact land and water use, taking public transit and ride-sharing, limiting food waste, and switching to LED bulbs at home are measures that signi...(more)
The Munduruku tribe of the Amazon River basin, after fighting since 1975, has managed to suspend construction of a mega-dam that threatened to submerge their home. These 700 square miles of land ...(more)
Evolutionary biologist Timothy Mousseau and team, studying the effects of Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters on wildlife and ecosystems, finds sterility in male birds, cataracts in rodents and bir...(more)
330 million people are affected by drought in India, and unchecked groundwater extraction has led to a precipitous drop in water tables in the world’s fastest rate of groundwater decline. But i...(more)
Venezuela is facing a major drought, which has depleted water levels at its main hydroelectric dam. To save on electricity, the government shortened work week to two days for public sector worker...(more)
29 Sperm whales were found stranded on shores around the North Sea, an area that is too shallow for the marine wildlife. The necropsy of their bodies revealed many of the whales had stomachs full...(more)
32 researchers from 8 countries involved in this study found significant greening of 25 - 50 percent of the Earth's vegetated land, thus slowing the pace of climate change. Scientists say, t...(more)
Thirty years after Chernobyl, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev remains haunted by the world's greatest ever industrial catastrophe. A committed environmentalist, he's still campai...(more)
Pamela and Anil K Malhotra have spent the last 25 years buying denuded and abandoned agricultural land in Karnataka’s Kodagu district and reforesting it. The couple owns 300 acres of land in Br...(more)
In the Netherlands, gas-powered cars could soon be a thing of the past. The lower house of the Dutch parliament passed a motion recently that would ban the sales of non-electric cars in the count...(more)
Seychelles, the archipelago nation, relies almost solely on fishing and tourism for income, but which is not enough to service the country’s debt. The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation has put toget...(more)
The Catatumbo Lightning of Venezuela is an atmospheric phenomenon which occurs only over the mouth of the Catatumbo River where the river empties into Lake Maracaibo. Frequent and powerful flashe...(more)
Designed by André Broessel, it’s a completely round sun tracking globe, a giant glass marble nuzzled into a computerized metal frame. It captures the light of both the moon and the sun, and 10...(more)
Toxic chemicals are accumulating in marine creatures in Earth’s deepest oceanic trenches.The latest research tested for levels of organic chemicals in amphipods collected at 7,000–10,...(more)
This family tried to avoid plastic entirely in the wedding ceremony of their son and planned meticulously for it. From inexpensive natural decor, to hiring of steel glasses to serve water and th...(more)
“Contrail” is the thin, line-shaped cloud produced by aircraft flying at high altitudes. These 'chemical' trails are produced from water, turned into ice crystals, and can last seve...(more)
E-waste discarded by Indians will be 30 lakh metric tonnes (MT) a year by 2018, says a study. Only 2.5% of the country's e-waste gets recycled due to poor infrastructure, legislation and fra...(more)
Approximately 90 per cent of compact fluorescent light bulbs are being tossed in the trash, potentially contaminating the environment with mercury and ending up in landfills. The energy-efficient...(more)
So much methane gas is now bubbling up through the Condamine River in Queensland, Australia that it exploded with fire and held a large flame. Gas seeping into the river began shortly after coal ...(more)
The backwaters of Kerala will soon be equipped with a solar ferry which is commercially viable. The initial cost of the solar ferry will be more than the conventional diesel ferry of the same cap...(more)
Footwear giant Adidas, in an environmental initiative with the conservation group Parley for the Oceans, has an interesting and innovative recycling effort on hand. A performance shoe made from o...(more)
A UK run trial launched in the wake of the Volkswagen revelations that it had been cheating emissions tests has found that every single one of the diesel-fuelled vehicles of other companies they ...(more)
More than 111 people have already died across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh from sunstrokes. Following last year’s devastating heat wave that claimed over 2,000 lives in the two states, both gov...(more)
The blackpoll warbler, a songbird weighing less than two AA batteries, makes one of the most extraordinary migrations in the animal kingdom. It flies nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean during its ...(more)
People in Orissa prepare well to take on the summer heat and restrict the number of sunstroke deaths. Measures like shifting office and school timings to early morning, holding weddings at night,...(more)
Our planet has been hit lately by literally dozens of earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 or greater, and scientists say this is highly unusual. The bigger earthquakes inviting casualties are getting th...(more)
In this instruction manual, the Government of India in association with various international organisations endeavours to list how you can implement a low carbon footprint life style in your dail...(more)
Mining activities being revived in Goa after a 19-month ban lifted in late 2014, is waking up to a new reality. Sections of tribal communities in new mining areas now don't stay silent and a...(more)
A Forest Beat Officer in Kadapa district, Ragala Subbalakshmi is the sole ranger of the Seshachalam biosphere reserve for the past two years. This 25-year-old officer covers the 20,000 square acr...(more)
Every year, around 30,000 elephants are killed in Africa for their tusks to satisfy the needs of Asian market. Hong Kong is a key part of this trade as a major transit and retail hub and sells mo...(more)
Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause has been recording wild soundscapes for 45 years. But such is the rate of species and habitat loss that his tapes may become our only record of the original ...(more)
India has argued for controlled antibiotics use in human health, animal and agriculture sectors in the World Health Organisation (WHO) meet. India pointed out that control is necessary as it is t...(more)
A new flowering plant has been discovered from Kasargod. The plant has been named Bliksa Kasarkodansis.The specialty of the plant, which belongs to the Hydrocharitaceae family, is that its polli...(more)
New research reveals that sperm whales may have their own distinct dialects and cultures. And that they learn to communicate from their peers and relatives, like the humans do. Sperm whales have ...(more)
For the first time in 100 years, the world’s tiger population has gone up. The rise, from 1,706 in 2011 to 2,226 in 2014 is now 3,900 tigers globally. In the beginning of the last century, ...(more)
Groundwater is considered water for future generations, but the wide drought has brought on a global trend of sucking up groundwater through very deep bore wells. Scientists at the National Geoph...(more)
Assam is the largest single tea-growing region in the world and the productivity, both in terms of quantity and quality, requires a specific range of environ-climatic conditions. A new study by t...(more)
While inmates at maximum security prisons in the U.S. are guaranteed at least 2 hours of outdoor time a day, half of children worldwide spend less than an hour outside, reports TreeHugger.com. A ...(more)
Tirupur in Tamil Nadu owes its prosperity to its vibrant textile industry but the coloured dyes they release into their water bodies had gone on to destroy the farmland around the area, leading t...(more)
The HUL mercury thermometer factory in South India, shut in 2001 because its workers were exposed to toxic mercury and not provided with adequate protective gear, resulting in casualties. After e...(more)
In Kerala, the intense summer and the resultant shortage of foliage and water in interior forests are forcing elephants to forage into farmlands. Wild elephants raiding farmlands on forest fringe...(more)
A heated controversy is raging in Pakistan over whether or not the government has given a go-ahead to multinationals to make commercial sale of GM corn seeds. It comes at a time when the Seed (Am...(more)
A French logging company and official partner of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is deforesting a huge area of rainforest in southeast Cameroon without the consent of local Baka “Pygmies” who m...(more)
Less than two weeks after dumping nearly 90,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, Shell Oil is at it again. The company’s San Pablo Bay Pipeline, which transports crude oil from Californi...(more)
A major new report warns some of the world’s most iconic heritage sites are increasingly vulnerable to the impacts of global warming and the tourist industry, but overlooks the threats posed by...(more)
Communities in northern Japan are being ransacked by wild radioactive boar exposed to toxins from Fukushima. The boar population has spiked from 3,000 to 13,000. Local communities are exhausting ...(more)
Fossils resembling miniaturised popcorn provide evidence that number of species on Earth depends on how the environment changes, according to a University of Southampton study. Limit to the numbe...(more)
As signs emerge that the global energy sector is beginning to rein in what once had been unbridled levels of climate-changing pollution, new UN data show pollution from farming is worsening. Gree...(more)
Carbon dioxide has been steadily rising since the start of the Industrial Revolution, setting a new high year after year. The last station on Earth without a 400 parts per million (ppm) reading h...(more)
In a study that has global implications for irrigation and hydro-electricity schemes, researchers say taking too much water from rivers reduces fish survival as they do not get food in the form o...(more)
Wildlife managers are concerned a booming online trade in caribou meat may pose a threat to one of the last healthy herds on the Canadian tundra. Hunters and the hungry link up on Facebook, then ...(more)
Among foreign tourists, the most popular destination in the country’s Amazon region is the 274,000 hectare Tambopata National Reserve, with its rich biodiversity including 169 mammal species, y...(more)
A study published in the journal Nature reveals that Arctic is being shaded by a red algae which is accelerating the melting of Arctic ice. Sunlight and frozen water acts as a perfect breeding gr...(more)
After the world diligently followed the Montreal Protocol, the ozone hole over Antarctica became an average of 4.5 million square kilometers small every September between 2000 and 2015, says a st...(more)
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