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How an IIT grad became 'Turtle Walker': Walked 4000 km of India's coastline to map sea turtle nesting sites without even a GPSOn World Environment Day 2026, it is only rightful to remember Satish Bhaskar who dedicated decades of his life to understanding and protec...- Where aircraft go when they need a safe haven – or to die. As the Gulf war draws attention to ‘boneyards’, where does India stand?Wars, pandemics, and airspace closures have created a lucrative, if niche, global industry: Specialised airports, called aircraft boneyards...
- Why Some Birds Sit on Empty Nests After Eggs Disappear, And What That Quietly RevealsA bird's persistent nesting behavior after eggs are gone is not confusion but a biological lag. Internal cues like hormones drive incubatio...
- Binance’s regulatory leap: What the ADGM license means for global cryptoBinance now operates under Abu Dhabi Global Market supervision. This marks a significant move from unregulated trading to institutional com...
- NGT clears Great Nicobar infrastructure project, says adequate safeguards providedThe National Green Tribunal has approved the Great Nicobar Island International Container Transhipment Terminal. The tribunal found that en...
- Not All Species Are Declining: Turtles and Tigers Are Beating the OddsNature is showing signs of recovery in protected areas. Sea turtles are returning to nesting beaches, and tiger populations are increasing ...
- Migration Interrupted: Climate Change Is Altering the Routes Birds Have Followed for MillenniaMigratory birds face new challenges as climate change alters their ancient journeys. Rising temperatures and unpredictable weather disrupt ...
- Puri greenfield airport plan hits green hurdle; panel defers nodThe central government's forest advisory committee has again delayed the Odisha government's proposed Puri greenfield airport project. Conc...
- Global warming causing 'feminisation' of turtles: Study
- Ken Betwa Phase 1 gets wildlife clearanceThe project will still need a go ahead from the Forest Advisory committee and a final approval of the Environment minister for implementati...
- House sparrows flying away from citiesLoss of nesting sites and absence of food, particularly insects, are leading to fast reduction in the number of house sparrows (passer dome...
- The Indian House Crow slowly disappearing from BengaluruThe crow — the original pourakarmika (sanitary worker) of our cities, who cleaned up entire neighbourhoods of left-overs — is being seen le...
- Colour-banding may help save forest owletsAs many as 25 pairs of the critically endangered forest owlet , which is endemic to India, will be colour-banded to study their distributio...
- Sunjoy Monga talks about the changing sparrow habitatOn World Sparrow Day (March 20) TOI spoke to naturalist, writer and photographer, Sunjoy Monga about the changing sparrow habitat and the d...
- Sparrows lose homes in urban jungleSparrows seems to be flying out in search of another habitat.The house sparrows, the most commonly sighted bird in the country, is graduall...
- Kanpur: Very few turtle nesting sites sighted this yearIt is the time of the year when hundreds of turtles make their way to the banks of Yamuna to lay their eggs.However, heavy release of water...
- Experts blame land shortage for lack of breeding space of sarusScanty rainfall followed by delay in sowing of paddy crop are the major reasons for the decline in nesting sites of sarus.
- Another spanner in Posco's Orissa project: Coast along port site erodingShoreline surveys have found the Orissa's coastline to be highly erosive. Worse still, 50%, that is 4.8 km of the 9.3 km coastline along th...
- Conservationists worried over safety as endangered Olive Ridleys arriveWith the endangered Olive Ridley turtles already reaching the coastal waters at Gahirmatha, concern over their safety has begun to worry co...
- Beijing boasts stunning new buildingsThis ancient capital city, long known for the architectural splendor of its centuries-old palaces and temples, is getting a new look that c...
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