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By Dinesh C Sharma (Twitter handle: @dineshcsharma) New Delhi, October 16 (India Science Wire): Traditional brick kilns dotting countryside are a source of air pollution, though they are essential for supplying bricks to the country’s growing construction industry. Another source Read More …
Minister of State for Housing & Urban Affairs Shri Hardeep S Puri on October 11, 2019 launched the mobile app, “mHariyali,” in New Delhi. The app is aimed to encourage Public engagement in planting trees and other such Green drives. People Read More …
According to a recent report published in the ‘The Hindustan Times’, a 125-year-old female double coconut tree-the only double coconut tree in India is dying. The tree was planted by British in Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden in Read More …
India’s first electronic-waste (e-waster) is going to be set up in Bhopal, capital of Madhya Pradesh. The clinic is being conceived in compliance with the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016. To set this clinic, the Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Read More …
An Assistant Professor from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi has discovered new trapdoor spider species in a deciduous forest near Nilagiri town in Odisha during field surveys this year. According to the Journal of Asia Pacific Biodiversity in which Read More …
India is hosting the Second Lead Author Meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III Sixth Assessment Report at New Delhi, beginning 30th September to 4th October 2019. More than 200 experts/authors including 12 from India and others Read More …
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) of India officially launched the “Forest-PLUS 2.0: forests for water and prosperity” program at an event in New Delhi on September 25, Read More …
A team of researchers has discovered a new species of ‘cat snake’ in Maharashtra’s Western Ghats —making it the first such discovery in 125 years. A research paper describing the new species was published in the journal of the Bombay Read More …
By Roxy Mathew Koll and Raghu Murtugudde Pune, September 26 (India Science Wire): The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Wednesday released a Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate.It is the first such report exclusivelyaddressing Read More …
A team of scientists from the University of Delhi and the Zoological Survey of India have found a new species of genus Microhyla frog from the northeastern State of Arunachal Pradesh. The new frog species has been named Microhyla eos, Read More …
A new initiative was launched on 23rd September 2019 at the UN Climate Action Summit to help guide the world’s heaviest greenhouse gas emitting industries toward the low-carbon economy. India and Sweden together with Argentina, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Read More …
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi announced a global Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), at the UN Climate Action Summit 2019 held in New York City, USA, on September 23, 2019. The partnership of national governments, UN agencies and programmes, Read More …
By Susheela Srinivas (Twitter handle: @sushisree) Bengaluru, September 24 (India Science Wire): The Indian coastline is hometo an ancient and diverse coral reef system that provides natural habitat for diverse marine underwater ecosystem. Also, they hold importance in fisheries, tourism Read More …
According the NeBIO-an international journal on environment and biodiversity, two new plant species belonging to the Asclepiadaceae or milkweed family have been discovered from the shola forests of the Western Ghats. These two plants are Tylophora balakrishnanii and Tylophora neglecta. Latex in plant Read More …
By Dinesh C Sharma (Twitter handle: @dineshcsharma) New Delhi, September 17 (India Science Wire): A new technology developed by Indian scientists for ecological restoration is helping in revival of mangroves degraded due to rising sea levels, climate change and human Read More …