High altitude areas and alpine pastures are the most alluring landscapes in the Himalayas. Befittingly, the locals have reserved them for the deities. But in recent years as modern mass tourism grows, these fragile heights are being assaulted by an…
Tourism invading areas once reserved for the gods Read More »
I always used to think that the developed nations have a better record with the environment, with more educated and active citizens always taking part in the conservation process. Part of such belief has grown out of a memoir written by a renowned…
Bio diversity is declining in Britain: Will it lead to some soul searching? Read More »
I remember I was in the fifth standard when I happened to read an article in some magazine about the extinct species of India. Through that article I came to know certain things which I never knew before. For example, very few people would know that…
Dwindling Biodiversity: The beginning of our end? Read More »
At last the polar bear seems to be getting its rightfully deserved protection under the Endangered Species Act according to which critically imperiled species are given protection against extinction. The decision was taken by The Interior Department..
Polar bear to be protected under the Endangered Species Act Read More »
The US Government is out to list the polar bear as a threatened species owing to global warming, but a recent study by scientist Kristin Laidre of the Polar Science Center (University of Washington) published in the Ecological Applications reveals that.
Narwhal, the spiral-tusked Arctic whale – yet another victim of global warming Read More »
Scientists from Mauna Loa Observatory (Hawaii) and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have unanimously cautioned the world about the dangerous levels to which atmospheric carbon dioxide has increased in the last six years. Today,…
Carbon dioxide levels reach peak value for the last 650,000 years – Report Read More »
Changing climate and the resulting rise in the level of water is the biggest threat that the inhabitants of the islands of the Torres Strait in Australia are facing. The worst affected ones are the low-lying islands like the Murray Island where the…
We are drowning… Is anybody listening? ask the Murray islanders Read More »
When scientists keep warning us every now and then about the hazardous consequences of global warming, many of us dismiss it off as something that will take years to turn into reality. But the threat of floods, change in monsoons and rain patterns…
Global warming – an alarming reality of Bhutan Read More »
Stealthily the destruction of the islands in the Sunderbans due to the rise in the sea level has created the first global-warming refugees. 7,000 inhabitants of the Lohachara Island, in the Ganga delta, have lost their homes and lands to the rising sea.
Global warming threatening the world’s largest delta Read More »
The ghast realities of global warming were splendidly picturized in the movie ‘The Day After tomorrow’. But the sad thing is we 6 billion individuals on earth are on brink of finding ourselves in the conditions shown in the movie. Moreover, we are…
Antarctic ice shelf collapse: Humanity nearing the doomsday? Read More »
