Biodiversity

This year 20,827 domestic and foreign tourists visited the UNESCO World Heritage Site Valley of Flowers, located in the Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand.

The flight this year of a Bar-tailed Godwit has been documented as the longest of a bird on record, travelling 13,560 kilometres from Alaska to the island of Tasmania, in Australia.

Lithops, also known as "living stones" or "flowering stones", are beautiful succulent plants that have evolved to prevent grazing animals from eating them by mixing with the stones in their natural environment.

Antarctica's emperor penguin is at risk of extinction due to rising global temperatures and loss of sea ice, the US government said on Tuesday.

In the United States, several states are battling wildfires, including Alaska, where more than 1.2 million hectares of land were destroyed by fire in mid-July.

Forest fires have doubled worldwide in the last 20 years, particularly in boreal forests, "probably" because of climate change, according to a study published.

Ocean waves are a ubiquitous part of coastal landscapes and beach vacations. But have you ever stopped to ponder where a wave originates, how far it travels, or why it forms in the first place?

There are animals for all tastes. There are the fast, agile and active ones, but there are also the slow, calm and lazy animals. All animals are special, each with its own characteristics. 

The longest-living trees, many hundreds or even thousands of years old, play a vital role in preserving ecosystems because they can resist and buffer climate change, new research says.

The black-footed cat (Felis nigripes) is the deadliest feline in the world, its ferocity does not prevent it from being saved from the list of endangered species.