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Bandipur Tiger Reserve – Late safari trips cancelled
Why in news? Karnataka’s Environment Minister directed wildlife authorities to discontinue the final evening safari at Bandipur Tiger Reserve. Farme...
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Why in news? Karnataka’s Environment Minister directed wildlife authorities to discontinue the final evening safari at Bandipur Tiger Reserve. Farme...
Why in news? Marine scientists in Greece have deployed thousands of mussels around the Saronic Gulf to measure levels of microplastic pollution. The f...
Why in news? Wildlife enthusiasts captured images of an Indian spotted chevrotain, commonly called the mouse deer, in Maharashtra’s Tungareshwar Wil...
Why in news? The normally transparent waters of the Umngot River in Meghalaya have turned brown due to soil and debris dumped during road construction...
Why in news? Researchers at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar, are investigating whether the seeds of cycad plants cont...
Why in news? The forest department of Andhra Pradesh is gearing up for the All India Tiger Estimation 2026. The Nagarjunasagar–Srisailam Tiger Reser...
Why in news? A comprehensive study published in Environmental Earth Sciences has highlighted alarming levels of heavy metals in sediments and fishes o...
Why in news? Kerala’s forest department has removed vast stands of invasive wattle trees from Pampadum Shola National Park, allowing native shola gr...
Why in news? Civil society organisations have urged authorities to nominate the Rowmari–Donduwa wetland complex within Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary f...
Why in news? A thick mat of water lettuce has covered nearly 80 percent of Lake Suchitlan in El Salvador, choking one of Central America’s largest a...
Why in News? A team using the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii recently reported clear evidence of torsional Alfvén waves twisting through ...
Why in News? After heavy monsoon rains in 2025, Rajasthan’s Sambhar Lake has filled to near‑normal levels, prompting a dramatic increase in migrat...
Why in News? Mahuadanr Wolf Sanctuary in Jharkhand has drawn attention for being India’s only protected area dedicated exclusively to the conservati...
Why in news? The Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh has announced that Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary, recently renamed Veerangana Durgawati Tiger Reserve...
Why in news? Seven countries—Cook Islands, Madagascar, Mexico, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Uganda—have received a total of US $5.8 million from t...
Why in news? Scientists monitoring the Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano off the coast of Oregon, have warned that it may erupt before the end of ...
Why in news? A photographer in southern Spain captured images of a white Iberian lynx, the first known case of a leucistic individual in the wild. The...
Why in news? Brazil, supported by the United Kingdom, has launched the AmazonFACE experiment to understand how the Amazon rainforest will respond to r...
Why in news? Indian herpetologists have described a new species of slender gecko from the sacred Venkatadri hills in Andhra Pradesh. Named Hemiphyllod...
Why in news? Nature enthusiasts in Karwar, Karnataka, recently spotted a large Atlas moth in the Guddehalli forest area. Photographs of the striking i...