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26 stories for “Western Ghats”
Clear filtersIntroductionIn a deeply structural and highly massive climatological revelation, a recent study by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, strictly and officially reported that approximately 25% of Ind...
IntroductionIn a deeply structural and highly massive consolidation of ecological governance, Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) strictly and officially hosted a historic triad of India’s apex wildlife statutory body meetings in Ju...
IntroductionIn a deeply structural and highly massive intervention for wildlife conservation, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) strictly and officially halted the proposed 2,000 MW pumped st...
IntroductionIn a deeply structural and highly massive biodiversity discovery, researchers have strictly and officially identified a completely new genus and species of a nocturnal tiger moth. The fierce absolute new inse...
Scientists from the Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute have identified a new evergreen tree species, named Humboldtia nairiana, in the riverside (riparian) forests of Shendurney Wildlife Sanc...
Scientists from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research – National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (ICAR-NBFGR) have discovered a new freshwater fish species, Labeo kaage, in the Cauvery River basin of Karnataka. It...
UNESCO has expressed concern over the Aghanashini-Vedavathi river linking project and its likely effect on the Western Ghats ecosystem. The project proposes to divert about 35 TMC ft of water from the Aghanashini River t...
Researchers have documented a rare instance of gynandromorphy – an animal showing both male and female characteristics – in a freshwater crab in Silent Valley National Park, Kerala.The crab belongs to the species Vela ca...
A faunal survey by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) in Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats, has identified nine species new to science. They include the jumping spider Stenaelurillus megamalai, the mayflies E...
Scientists have published India's first comprehensive checklist of fireflies, recording 92 species in 27 genera based on records from 1881 to 2025. More than 60% of these species are endemic to India, and several have no...
A new study warns that climate change could drastically reduce the area suitable for the Nilgiris Wood Pigeon (Columba elphinstonii) in the Western Ghats by the end of this century.The bird is endemic to the Western Ghat...
India and Germany deepened cooperation on climate adaptation and resilience at a high-level Climate Talk in New Delhi. Germany announced a grant of up to 20 million euros for India under its International Climate Initiat...
