Vultures vs dogs fallout: 'Humans either feed canines or don't; either way their behaviour changes and they become predatory'

New Delhi, Aug. 25 -- This is the fifth in a 6-part series. Read the first, second, third and fourth parts On August 11, a 2-judge bench of Justice J B Pardiwala and Justice R Mahadevan directed that... Read More

India to improve weather forecasting accuracy for better power demand estimation, amid renewables push

New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- Summary India is enhancing its weather forecasting accuracy to better estimate power demand amid its renewable energy expansion. With solar and wind energy reliant on local weat... Read More

Daily Heat Tracker: Chennai recorded highest daytime and night-time temperatures

New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- Note: Data for capital cities of 27 states (data not available for Goa) and 8 union territories. In certain states where data is not available for the capital city, data for one ... Read More

Vultures vs dogs fallout: 'Anecdotal evidence exists, but still very difficult to quantify increase in dogs because of vulture decline'

New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- On August 11, a 2-judge bench of Justice J B Pardiwala and Justice R Mahadevan directed that stray dogs be removed from the streets of Delhi and the National Capital Region as ea... Read More

Extreme heat threatening worker safety and productivity globally: WHO, WMO sound alarm on growing workplace heat stress

New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- An increase of one degree beyond 20 degrees Celsius (degrees C) in wet-bulb global temperature (WBGT) slashes global worker productivity by 2-3 per cent, while also causing addit... Read More

Daily Heat Tracker: Dehradun sees highest jump over average maximum temperature

New Delhi, Aug. 21 -- Note: Data for capital cities of 27 states (data not available for Goa) and 8 union territories. In certain states where data is not available for the capital city, data for one ... Read More

Vultures vs dogs fallout: 'Availability of food waste in urban areas needs to be stressed too'

New Delhi, Aug. 21 -- On August 11, a 2-judge bench of Justice J B Pardiwala and Justice R Mahadevan directed that stray dogs be removed from the streets of Delhi and the National Capital Region as ea... Read More

Monsoon 2025 anomaly: Surge in western disturbances intensifying Himalayan disasters, driven by warming

New Delhi, Aug. 21 -- Summary Monsoon 2025 saw 14 western disturbances, far higher than usual for the season. Extra-tropical storms intensified rainfall and triggered flash floods in Himachal Pradesh... Read More

Poverty, mining and deforestation driving tigers to local extinction

New Delhi, Aug. 21 -- Summary Tigers have gone locally extinct from nearly 18,000 sq km of habitat in India between 2006 and 2018. Poverty, bushmeat hunting, and snares are major drivers of decline i... Read More

Gerardus Mercator: Why the 16th century Fleming cartographer is in the African Union's crosshairs

India, Aug. 20 -- The African Union is advocating for the adoption of the 2018 Equal Earth projection to accurately represent Africa's size, challenging the long-standing Mercator Projection. The AU ... Read More

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