Biodiversity

The Baiga community in Chhattisgarh became the second Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) in the state to be awarded Habitat Forest Rights under the Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006.

The compensatory afforestation is a unique legal requirement that seeks to offset the loss of forests due to infrastructural and industrial projects.

Insect populations are significantly influenced by weather anomalies, with numbers decreasing during unfavourable conditions and spiking in normal periods, according to a new study published in Nature.

66 million years ago an asteroid wiped out a little more than 75% of the population of living beings that inhabited the planet at that time. This story also became known because it led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Uncertainty has been generated in the United Kingdom by the surprising felling of 'Sycamore Gap', a maple that is a little over 300 years old and known for being the most famous tree in this area.

On Ground | Biodiversity | Discover the journey of mangrove plantations to bring the region back to life with Sundarbans revival! story of hope, struggle.

The Sahara desert, the largest on the planet, advances unstoppably; each year, it claims an average of 1.5 million hectares, equal to the area of the province of Toledo.

Naturally, the scientific community has been looking for viable alternatives to replace cement and concrete. Particularly, recent years have seen a growing interest in using “mass timber” or structural timber.

Specifically, the pollination of crops in cold and temperate regions of the northern hemisphere is especially important thanks to the bumblebee genus (Bombus), which belongs to the Hymenoptera family.

A new Union Environment Ministry report states that there are at least 150 elephant corridors spanning 15 range-states across four elephant-bearing regions in India, with West Bengal topping the list with 26 such land strips.