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March 9, 2026, 03:58 PM - 3 min read
RTI data shows over 1.06 lakh trees felled in Assam since 2016 for development projects, prompting experts to warn about ecological damage and lack of impact studies.
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March 8, 2026, 03:57 PM - 8 min read
In early 20th century American life, women might not have been able to vote or to serve on juries in most states, but in the ring, they commanded the audience’s attention riding bareback on horses, displaying strength and stamina, and performing gravity-defying acrobatic feats. Stark was acutely aware of the path she was paving. “I deliberately chose a field in which no other woman had specialised,” she wrote in her autobiography.
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March 5, 2026, 02:19 PM - 6 min read
The picture for 2026 is complicated. Although flooding can kill overwintering eggs and adults, a mild wet winter will have reduced slug mortality. It may also affect slug predators.
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March 1, 2026, 01:08 PM - 5 min read
After being abandoned by his mother and rejected by the rest of his troop, his zookeepers provided Punch with an orangutan plushie as a stand-in mother. Videos of the monkey clinging to the toy have gone viral worldwide. But Punch’s attachment to his inanimate companion is not just the subject of a heart-breaking video. He’s a reminder of the importance of emotional nourishment.
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February 25, 2026, 02:27 PM - 6 min read
This species was once abundant along the coasts of South Africa and Namibia. But the population has fallen by about 78 per cent over the last 30 years.
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February 15, 2026, 12:49 PM - 6 min read
The turkey vulture’s keen sense of smell was put to use by oil company engineers in 1930s California. Workers were having trouble with leaks along a 42-mile-long natural gas pipeline but noticed that vultures would often congregate around these leaks. The engineers used this to their advantage, observing the vultures to pinpoint and repair leaks.
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February 12, 2026, 03:23 PM - 3 min read
The PIL was filed by wildlife expert Ajay Dubey. Representing the petitioner, advocate Aditya Sanghi presented official data before the court and said that the deaths pointed to a troubling trend.
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February 6, 2026, 01:25 PM - 6 min read
Claims that de-extinction can reverse extinction are misleading. Genetic engineering can introduce lost traits from an extinct species into a closely related living species and restore lost ecological functions, but it can’t re-create the extinct species. Problems arise when companies present these limits cautiously within the scientific community but make stronger claims in public-facing communication.
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January 29, 2026, 04:25 PM - 6 min read
Shark teeth are also disposable—they are constantly replaced throughout their lives, like a conveyor belt pushing a new tooth forward roughly every few weeks.
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January 21, 2026, 03:55 PM - 5 min read
Frogs are one of the most threatened groups of animals on the planet. One in five species of Australian frogs—almost 50 species—are threatened with extinction. Disease, habitat loss and climate change are their greatest threats.
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January 5, 2026, 04:13 PM - 7 min read
The team of researchers used special audio recorders that could capture bird songs over long distances and for long periods without them being there. These recorders picked up all the singing from the start to the end of the dawn chorus.
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December 30, 2025, 05:01 PM - 2 min read
From being on verge of extinction until few years back to steady growth at highly manage breeding centres of Kashmir, it has been a difficult yet successful story of ‘Hangul’, a rare species of deer found only in the Valley’s forests.
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