According to new study was published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, scientists have identified the evolutionary pathway that led some plants to turn carnivorous. The new finding explains…

Neurocalyx calycinus: A herbal plant to cure cancer!A medicinal plant endemic to the southern parts of Western Ghats and Sri Lanka could offer scientists the key to new herbal formulations.…

Bhitarkanika National Park is a national park located in the Kendrapara District Odisha in eastern India. Core area of 145 square kilometre of the Bhitarkanika Wild Sanctuary, spread over 672 km2,…

A massive ice blocknearly 100 times the area of Manhattan is poised to break off Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf, scientists reported. The fragile West Antarctic ice sheet -- where Larsen…

2016 was the warmest year on record, with global average temperature 0.2 degrees celsius higher than 2015, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has confirmed. This is the…

Last year was the hottest on record by a wide margin, with temperatures creeping close to a ceiling set by almost 200 nations for limiting global warming, the European Union's…

In a shocking revelation, a Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) report has noted that more than 60 (nearly 70%) wetlands out of the total 85 have "degraded due to sheer…

A rainbow-headed snake and a dragon-like lizard are among 163 new speciesthat scientists recently discovered in the Greater Mekong region adding rapid development in the area, from dams to mines, was…

Two notifications on wetlands issued by the Union environment ministry on December 14 have puzzled legal activists who have been campaigning for protection of wetlands. One of these notifications is…

The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) has launched climate changeprogramme under which the first study funded by Oracle and facilitated by CAF-India, will assess the status, distribution and conservation of…