Mizoram has recently earned a place on India’s solar power map with the commissioning of a 2-MW capacity solar power plant. Mizoram Power Minister R Lalzirliana inaugurated the state's first solar power plant, built at the cost of Rs.14 crore, at Tlungvel in Aizawl district.

Scientists have found evidence of a previously undiscovered population of blue whales living in the western Indian Ocean based on an analysis of sound recordings from the region, an advance which sheds light on the global distribution of the largest animals to have ever lived on earth.

India’s iconic Western Ghats, inscribed by UNESCO in 2012 as a natural world heritage site, is threatened by population pressure, urbanization and climate change, according to a new report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

An Amur falcon was sighted recently on the campus of the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) at Kodiakkarai, abutting the Point Calimere Sanctuary, in Nagapattinam district.

Any exploitation of the North Sentinel Island of the Andamans for commercial and strategic gain would spell the death knell for its occupants, the Sentinelese, a most secluded, particularly vulnerable tribal group (PVTG) who reside in complete isolation on the island, the Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) has said.

Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has launched a rainwater harvesting campaign under the banner ‘30 days, 200 structures’. The aim of the campaign is to encourage people to build rainwater harvesting systems in their buildings, especially hospitals, education institutes, shopping malls, large residential apartments, commercial spaces, etc., said the DJB in a statement, highlighting that 42 zonal officers have been entrusted with leading the initiative in their respective areas in terms of persuading individuals and institutions.

The Royal Bengal Tiger has been sighted at an altitude of 3165 m above sea level for the first time in Nepal, raising concerns about the impact of global warming on wildlife.

Changes in climate can increase infectious disease risk in animals, researchers found—with the possibility that these diseases could spread to humans, they warn.

Gastrodia agnicellus, one of 156 plants and fungal species named by Kew scientists and their partners around the world in 2020, has been crowned ‘the ugliest orchid in the world’.... read more

A locked-down pandemic-struck world cut its carbon dioxide emissions this year by 7 per cent, the biggest drop ever, new preliminary figures show.

Rising global health risks driven by climate change will hit the poorest, most vulnerable people the hardest—and failure to prepare for those threats will mean more deaths and suffering, according to a leading environmental health scientist.

National Institutes of Health researchers have isolated a set of promising, tiny antibodies, or ‘nanobodies,’ against SARS-CoV-2 that were produced by a llama named Cormac.