Extreme hot temperatures increasing despite global warming hiatus claims

Extremely hot temperatures over land have dramatically and unequivocally increased in number and area despite claims that the rise in global average temperatures has slowed...

Sustainable Development Goals: Where do Gender Equality and Women’s Rights Stand?

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Friday File: The eighth session of the Open Working Group on Sust...

Anti-polio drive launched in NW Pakistan

Pakistani authorities today launched an anti-polio drive aimed at covering over 700,000 children in the tribal areas and frontier regions of the country’s northwest.<...

Global warming won’t cut winter deaths as hoped

Climate warming would likely not decrease winter mortality, the report suggested more volatile winters Global warming will fail to reduce high winter death rates as some of...

Salman Helps Poor Children To Get Education

Salman Khan’s penchant for philanthropy is proved once again. This time, he joined hands with a system that has more systematic approach towards helping fellow human ...

Is Climate Change Increasing the Disease Risk for Arctic Marine Mammals?

Climate change is melting Arctic sea ice, leaving animals that depend on it high and dry. Marine mammals like ringed seals have to find new areas to give birth, raise their...

Seriousness of climate situation has yet to sink in nationally

Opinion: We are witnessing a displaced fury against windmills and pylons rather than tackling the real threat to our future

It is tempting to imagine that a sea cha...

Warmer water species point to changing climate in Yellowstone River

State biologists were surprised to catch an uninvited guest near Springdale during fish surveys two years ago: a silver sucker with red fins called a shorthead redhorse. Read More

Experts, eco-scholars conduct annual water bird census

KANPUR: To count the number of migratory and local birds in the Yamuna river in Farah area of Mathura, ornithologists and a group of Yamuna eco-scholars participated in the...