A recent study reveals alarming levels of toxic chemicals in the Ganga river, endangering the Gangetic dolphins. These freshwater dolphins ...

Martin Smith, the George M. Woodwell Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics at Duke University, discusses ocean economics with ...

Conservationists in the US are pushing for federal rule changes to expand speed restrictions for vessels along the East Coast in order to p...

Environmentalists are planning to sue US wildlife officials for not listing the Kings River pyrg, a tiny snail near a Nevada lithium mine, ...

American director Steven Spielberg expresses his guilt over the harm done to the sharks during the shooting of the superhit thriller movie ...

The emperor penguin gives birth during the Antarctic winter and requires solid sea ice from April through December to nest fledgling chicks...

In India, Google searches on nature loss and biodiversity were up by 190%.

Three sharks were found to be critically endangered, with their populations declining by more than 80 percent -- the oceanic whitetip shark...

International Union of Conservation of Nature’s Red list has 665 animal and 387 plant species in India that face higher risk of extinction.

The finding places the cactus among the most threatened plant groups on Earth, ahead of mammals and birds and just behind corals.

In a counterintuitive discovery, scientists have found that ocean fish species that grow quickly and reproduce frequently are more likely t...

Wild sturgeons usually swim all the way from the sea waters to the river area to lay eggs around mid and late November after they become ma...

India has one of the longest shorelines in the world and many marine species of birds are found in the Indian seas and on the coastal areas.