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`Big Five` animals help plan conservation better

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 25, 2013, 16:58

Forget pandas, tigers or even gorillas when it comes to conservation planning. Rather, it’s time to divert research on the ‘Big Five’ club of animals who thrive only in large and rich biodiverse areas and are loved by tourists.

SOS 54 years ago warned about vanishing glaciers

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 25, 2013, 16:56

At a time when glaciers are melting at an alarming pace, an SOS buried in a bottle 54 years back in the Canadian Arctic, and unearthed now, sent a distress signal about the world`s rapidly disappearing glaciers.

Greenland ice harbours massive reservoir of melt water

Last Updated: Monday, December 23, 2013, 14:30

Scientists have suggested that Greenland Ice Sheet stores liquid water all year long, based on the surprising discovery of an aquifer, an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock .

Solar activity `not key culprit behind climate change`

Last Updated: Monday, December 23, 2013, 11:27

Researchers have said that climate change has not been strongly influenced by variations in heat from the sun.

Tigers sighted during wildlife census

Last Updated: Monday, December 23, 2013, 10:39

Pug mark of tigers and leopards have been noticed by forest personnel and students conducting the wild animal census in Sathymangalam and Erode forest divisions in the district for the past six days.

Why it never stops snowing in the North revealed

Last Updated: Sunday, December 22, 2013, 12:52

Researchers have found that atmospheric particles that were previously thought to be useless for making ice crystals may be the driver of arctic snows.

NTCA says no to reintroduction of white tigers in MP

Last Updated: Sunday, December 22, 2013, 10:08

The National Tiger Conservation Authority has refused to give its nod for reintroduction of white tigers in Madhya Pradesh saying they have no "conservation value", a decision that may come as a setback to the state`s efforts to secure these rare species.

156 rhinos killed by poachers in last ten years in Assam

Last Updated: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 19:56

Altogether 156 rhinos were killed, including 40 during the current year alone, by poachers in Assam, a senior minister said.

Kerala takes measures to check spread of FMD to wildlife

Last Updated: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 13:55

With the outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) causing heavy casualty of cattle population, Kerala Forest Department has issued a set of guidelines to check its spread among wildlife.

Researchers overturn assumption about mercury in Arctic

Last Updated: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 13:47

For years, researchers assumed that if mercury`s high and increasing in fish in the North American and European Arctic, the same would also stand true of fish elsewhere in the Arctic.