DrPrem Jagyasi

When security has embarked largely on advancing technology, then why would the animals be deprived of its service? Going innovative with GPS usage, wildlife biologists to better understand the needs of the fastest animal on the planet, — the…

Nature has once again shown its merciless fury. It was on Thursday, tornadoes tore through southern Alabama, sweeping along with it 18 lives, 15 of whom are from Enterprise High School, according to emergency officials.

Dennis Feltgen,…

The concept that stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean is caused largely by global warming is further bolstered by fresh evidences, though the trend doesn’t hold even for other oceans of the world.

These new findings are reported in the…

Pollutants like estrogen can change the gender of a frog from male to female in its life time! This is revealed by an experiment on a rare species of tree frog from Sri Lankas Horton Plains National Park — Philautus Femoralis.

This picture of the…

The population of South African elephants is growing rampantly. Both the government and the locales are concerned with this rising number. But, the solution? — Mass slaughter? No, not just that sounds cruel but also goes against the environmental…

Paris has witnessed the launch of one of the world’s biggest research programs in the past fifty years as part of the $1.5bn (£763m) International Polar Year (IPY) program with a bid to study the north and south poles.

With climate change at

Though the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has withdrawn pygmy owl from the endangered species list last year considering it ‘not’ being a distinct subspecies, the population of Northern Mexico’s tiny pygmy owl is found to be still declining dramatically..

It has, till date, been conventionally thought that sediment plumes travel into the Australia’s Great Barrier Reef from the river systems, which is being captured by the longshore current, letting them to travel no more than 10 to 15km offshore….

A mysteriously blooming freshwater alga has left environmental scientists perplexed since late 1980s, when it started invading the rivers of Vancouver, British Columbia, covering these once-pristine riverbeds with a thick, woolly mat.

Max Bothwell, a..

Augusto Neri, of the National Geophysical and Vulcanology Institute in Pisa, has led the research on the eruption of Vesuvius volcano. A computer generated three dimensional simulation shows that the next eruption of Vesuvius volcano would kill 300,000…