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Environment

Why Do We Need A World Turtle Day

One of the greatest threats facing turtles and tortoises in India is smuggling to East Asian and Southeast Asian markets. Many freshwater turtles and tortoises are consider...

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Bollywood

Hrithik Roshan Lends Support To Social Cause For World Environment Day

Hrithik has lent his support to Asif Bhamla Foundation and MCGM for a noble cause on World Environment Day. Hrithik Roshan had decided to donate his eyes after playing the ...

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Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development Goal On Energy (SDG7) & The World Bank Group

Access to clean, modern, sustainable energy is critical for improving the health and livelihoods of billions of people around the world. There is growing evidence linking s...

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Environment

Learning From Zoos: How Our Environment Can Influence Our Health

We are told that we are a nation of couch potatoes, lacking the will and the strength to turn around the obesity tanker. We all need a little help in our quest for a health...

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Environment

Evolution: Traits That Are Good For Individuals, But Bad For Species

Evolution can select traits that are good for individuals, but bad for the species as a whole ANTAGONISM is built into the nature of sexual reproduction itself. Members of ...

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Environment

Plants Can See, Hear And Smell - & Respond

Plants, according to Jack C Schultz, "are just very slow animals". This is not a misunderstanding of basic biology. Schultz is a professor in the Division of Plant Sciences...

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Environment

The Uncertain Fate Of The Worlds Most Important Freezer

In 2008, the Svalbard Global Seed Trust was heralded as one of the greatest inventions of the year. Located on a remote island in the Svalbard archipelago, halfway between ...

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Environment

Scientists: Seals Are Deafened In Noisy Shipping Lanes

TATTIUrbanisation of marine environment impacts on seal hearing and is comparable to noise pollution of inner cities Seals are being temporarily deafened by underwater nois...

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Sustainable Development

Five Sustainability Threats Facing Fashion

It’s 2050. The Arctic Circle, Earth’s once-pristine white snowcap, is now green. Its melting snowdrifts have been replaced with an irrepressible moss. Just sout...

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Environment

Switch To Reusable Menstrual Products To Save The Environment

Reusable menstrual products are the new demand and NGOs from across India have started making options for women to help reduce the burden of non-biodegradable products on t...

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