Ice loss from Canada’s Arctic glaciers has transformed them into a major contributor to sea level change, new research by University of California, Irvine glaciologists has found.

New York: A new study by Wildlife Conservation Society in India shows that three carnivores – tigers, leopards, and dholes (Asian wild dog) – seemingly in direct competition with one other, are living side by side with surprisingly little conflict. Usually, big cats and wild canids live in different locations to avoid each other.

Vaikom, the land of Satyagraha is situated in the northwest of Kottayam district in Kerala created history again on 12th January. The first solar-powered ferry in India named as Aditya started service between Vaikom and Thavanakkadavu, connecting Kottayam and Alappuzha districts. (Read in Hindi)

Kaziranga National Park is one of the oldest wildlife conservancy reserves of India, first notified in 1905 and constituted as Reserved Forest in 1908 with an area of 228.825 Sq. Km specially established for conservation and protection of the Greater One Horned Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros Unicornis) whose number was estimated at twenty pairs then. 

Gainesville / Agra / Mathura: Voters approve referenda for forest and water conservation in the United States because demand for ecosystem protection is increasing, according to a new University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences study. Meanwhile, in India, the Braj area along river Yamuna, it is a colossal damage to the biodiversity and ecosystem that over 4.5 million voters of Braj will focus on during the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.

Where there is a will, there will be a way. India has proven this axiom once more with aplomb.

New Delhi: The water level of 91 major reservoirs of country goes down by two per cent. Water storage was 115.457 BCM, which is 73% of total storage capacity of these reservoirs. This was 130% of the storage of corresponding period of last year and 99% of storage of average of last ten years. (Read in Hindi)

  Oxford: Dozens of dangerous gases are produced by the batteries found in billions of consumer devices, like smartphones and tablets, according to a new study. 

Not far from the Cauvery river, in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruchirapalli district, is a public toilet run by the local government. Located at Saliyar Marg, alongside an irrigation canal that brings Cauvery water to farms downstream, the structure with 14 enclosures – seven each for men and women – has been built by the Nagar Panchayat of Musiri. The local government looks after its maintenance and upkeep.

Columbus: The same hotspot in Earth’s mantle that feeds Iceland’s active volcanoes has been playing a trick on the scientists who are trying to measure how much ice is melting on nearby Greenland.