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The Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology (CMLRE), Kochi, has received national recognition for its Bhavasagara Referral Centre as a National Repository for Deep-Sea Fauna. The designation,...

Navegaon Nagzira Tiger Reserve (NNTR) in Maharashtra’s Gondia district is set to bring its buffer notified area under direct control from 1 April. The move is expected to...

India has emerged as the global leader in issuing Internationally Recognised Certificates of Compliance under the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing. The country has issued 3,561 certificates...

Ahead of the International Day of Zero Waste on 30 March, the United Nations has identified 20 cities as the inaugural 20 Cities Towards Zero Waste. The initiative...

Earth Hour was marked in Gwalior and across India with awareness and outreach activities led by WWF-India in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change....

The death toll in the Zojila Pass avalanche rose to seven after a missing civilian was found dead during a resumed search operation on the Srinagar-Leh highway. The...

A female tiger from Madhya Pradesh’s Satpura Tiger Reserve was allegedly poisoned to death, triggering the arrest of five people. The decomposed carcass was found buried outside the...

India’s reptile fauna has gained two new additions with the first recorded presence of the Rakhine Keelback and the Kachin Hills Keelback within Indian territory. The species were...

Japan experienced a magnitude 6.2 earthquake off the east coast of Honshu, its largest island, at a shallow depth of 10 km. The tremor follows another smaller quake...

The National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) has expanded its capacity-building efforts through short-term and long-term internship programmes for students and young professionals. These initiatives aim to strengthen biodiversity conservation,...