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India ranked 155th in global environment performance list

Last Updated: Sunday, January 26, 2014, 21:43

India has been ranked at a low 155th position in a global list that evaluates countries on how well they perform on high-priority environmental issues.

Ocean waves could help predict earthquakes in near future

Last Updated: Sunday, January 26, 2014, 12:51

Scientists have now found a method to use ocean waves to simulate the ground motion occurring in real earthquakes.

Far East`s rainforests shaped by humans for the last 11,000 years

Last Updated: Saturday, January 25, 2014, 10:36

Researchers have shown that the tropical forests of South East Asia have been shaped by humans for the last 11,000 years.

Forests stabilised Earth`s CO2 levels millions of years ago

Last Updated: Friday, January 24, 2014, 19:16

Researchers in the UK have identified a biological mechanism that could explain how the Earth`s atmospheric carbon dioxide and climate were stabilised over the past 24 million years.

Global warming to derail winter Olympics by century end?

Last Updated: Friday, January 24, 2014, 12:16

By the end of this century, only six of the previous winter Olympics host cities - including Sochi in Russia - would be cold enough to reliably host the games owing to global warming threats.

Vulture `safe zone` to come up in Bundelkhand

Last Updated: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 23:20

In order to protect critically-endangered vultures from being extinct, a Vulture Safe Zone (VSZ) would be created in Madhya Pradesh`s Bundelkhand, Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) officials said today.

Post-mortem reveals man-eater to be 5 year-old tiger

Last Updated: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 23:15

An autopsy on the man-eater carnivore, which was shot dead, has revealed it to could be a five-year-old male tiger, a top forest official said today.

MOU for lab-to-land approach

Last Updated: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 23:12

The GBP Institute for Himalayan Environment and Development (GBPIHED), an autonomous institute under Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), has initiated implementation of lab-to-land approach by signing an MoU with the Central Himalayan Environment Association (CHEA).

Examine ways to protect wild elephants from trains, govt told

Last Updated: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 23:01

Turning down the railways` plea seeking modification of directions on movement of trains in West Bengal, the Supreme Court has asked it and the environment ministry to examine steps taken by Karnataka and suggestions by other states to protect wild elephants from falling prey to fast-moving trains and electrocution.

Kenya plans elephant census

Last Updated: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 22:58

The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and various stakeholders plan to carry out an aerial census of elephants in the expansive Tsavo-Mkomazi ecosystem early next month.