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Majuli in Assam and Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh have built community-driven systems for rural waste management. In Majuli, waste is collected in 19 of 20 panchayats, sorted at Central Material Collection Facilities and s...
Depalpur in Madhya Pradesh has become the first city under the Swachh Shehar Jodi initiative to reach Zero Legacy Waste, after treating 1,250 metric tonnes of accumulated old waste. The work was done under Swachh Bharat...
Researchers have discovered Gegeneophis chandgadi, a new species of caecilian, or legless amphibian, in Buzawade village of Kolhapur district in Maharashtra. It belongs to the genus Gegeneophis. The species takes its nam...
A new frog species, Amolops ammachi, has been found in the Jampui Hills of Tripura. It belongs to the cascade frog genus Amolops. The species was named in honour of Padmini Varkey, known as 'Ammachi'. The discovery was m...
A new study has cautioned that the rare Myristica swamps of Kerala's Western Ghats are close to disappearing because of habitat loss. These freshwater swamps occur mainly in Kerala, with small patches in the Andaman and...
Sikkim has flagged 40 high-hazard glacial lakes, 16 of them in the top-risk Category A for possible Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs). Such lakes form from glacier meltwater and can burst suddenly due to excess water...
Maharashtra's Melghat and Pench Tiger Reserves have become India's most successful sites for releasing captive-bred vultures. Of 29 vultures freed in the two reserves between December 2025 and January 2026, survival rate...
International Vulture Awareness Day 2026 was observed on September 5, the first Saturday of September, to highlight the ecological importance of vultures and promote their conservation. The 2026 theme is "Strengthen the...
Noted climate scientist and IIT Delhi professor Krishna Achuta Rao passed away at 62 on September 4, 2026. He helped identify human influence on climate change, including temperature shifts across Indian sub-regions, wor...
Scientists have identified a new flowering plant species, Osbeckia ulotricha, belonging to the Melastomataceae family, in the Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve of the Western Ghats. The discovery adds to the recorded plant...
A recent study put the Total Economic Value of Tamil Nadu's Pichavaram Mangrove Ecosystem at ₹2,485.38 crore. The forest provides coastal protection, biodiversity conservation, fisheries, tourism and climate regulation....
Concerns over the striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) have highlighted gaps in population data and conservation planning in India. The species is Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List, with an estimated 5,000-14,000 animals wor...
