They also play a major role in protecting coastal areas from erosion, tidal storms and tsunamis.
12 Feb 2018 8:48 PM
However, environmentalists have refuted the forest department’s claims.
09 Feb 2018 5:45 AM
The findings published in the journal Psychological Science suggest that this association may be due to increased anxiety.
08 Feb 2018 12:34 PM
It focuses on safeguarding the Central Indian Landscape, home to over 600 tigers, which accounts for 30 per cent of India’s tigers.
04 Feb 2018 7:23 AM
United Nations has reviewed the idea of creating a 'sunshade' using sun-dimming chemicals.
31 Jan 2018 12:13 PM
Environmentalists, regulators and harvesters of species including squid, scallops and lobster have debated the proposal for years.
31 Jan 2018 7:38 AM
Researchers say tons of sodium chloride crystals, more than 20 million nationwide each year; are rising the salinity of hundreds of lakes.
29 Jan 2018 2:53 PM
Coral reefs are already under stress due to global warming.
26 Jan 2018 2:15 PM
A study revealed that severe bleaching outbreaks are hitting coral reefs four times more often they used to a few decades earlier.
08 Jan 2018 4:27 PM
Scientists from University of California are teaming up with Mars company to try and save crop before it is too late.
02 Jan 2018 12:56 PM
Environmental experts said that the species diversity and the number of birds have been fluctuating for some years now.
31 Dec 2017 1:45 AM
It likely owes its survival as a species on being geographically isolated from its parental species.
26 Dec 2017 4:00 PM
Observing decreasing tendencies may provide an early signal that something has changed but not for the better.
07 Dec 2017 12:40 PM
The Graphene-Lime paint absorbs Carbon Dioxide in a similar fashion as a tree does.
06 Dec 2017 6:35 PM
Local reports stated that it caused damage to homes, cars and injured at least one person.
05 Dec 2017 4:00 PM
The bears had come to feast on the carcass of a bowhead whale that washed ashore, later resting around the food source.
25 Nov 2017 1:28 PM
Data shows Earth's night getting brighter, and artificially lit outdoor surfaces growing at pace of 2.2 percent per year from 2012 to 2016.
23 Nov 2017 8:38 AM
It is hoped the new catalyst will help make the technology more widely available across industry.
19 Nov 2017 8:20 AM
It took three months to complete the visualisation, using satellite imagery.
18 Nov 2017 6:03 PM
Such increases may lower the future ability of global vegetation to offset carbon dioxide emissions caused by burning of fossil fuels.
18 Nov 2017 1:38 PM