Tahrcountry Musings

The United Arab Emirates has established the Wadi Wurayah Fujairah, the habitat of endangered Arabian Tahr as the country’s first protected ...

Heeding to the call of environmentalists Russia’s Sakhalin Energy consortium has agreed to suspend oil operations during the breeding season...

What we hear regularly from Afghanistan is depressing news about bombings, ambushes, excesses of Taliban and suffering of the common man. He...

Forests are considered to be a great source of carbon sinks. But this rosy picture is likely to change with the global warming. The warning ...

The Ethiopiaian Sidamo Lark ( Heteromirafra sidamoensis ), one of the most ancient types of larks, is in parlous state. Unless efforts are m...

A California researcher, Kerry Knudsen from the University of California-Riverside (UCR), has named a new species of Lichen discovered by hi...

I was fascinated to read about this new technique developed by Professor Thure Cerling and associates to decode eating habits of the elephan...

I was delighted to hear about this news about a new solar cooker with enormous potential. A Kenyan inventor has won the $75,000 prize for hi...

Virus powered batteries? Sounds a wee bit far fetched but it is true; they are in its way. A team of scientists from MIT in the US led by Pr...

In a spectacular case of symbiosis leaf-cutting ants have been cultivating fungus gardens that provide a safe home for the fungi and a food ...

For some time now exploding Gerbil population in their Xinjiang region has exasperated the Chinese officials. Gerbils have threatened the fr...

According to the latest research spearheaded by Climate scientist Dr Paul Fraser two new greenhouse gases, one emitted by the electronic ind...

Professor Byron Lamont from Curtin University of Technology Australia, and his colleagues, has come up with some surprising findings regardi...

Plastics ingestion by leatherback turtles is taking a heavy toll of the critically endangered species. This is the result arrived at by Dr. ...

Online registration is now open for the 5th World Congress on Mountain Ungulates. Log on to the conference website www.vworldconferenceung...

Tropical rainforests act as important carbon sinks.These forests have been continuously giving us a subsidy. Latest research indicates that ...

Indonesia has long been troubled by deforestation. It has the unenviable reputation of having the highest rate of deforestation in Asia. Pal...

Do you really need that bottle of packaged drinking water? The latest research on bottled water has confirmed what the environmentalists hav...

Goldman Sachs has announced the gift of a sprawling wilderness area in Chile to the Wildlife Conservation Society. The 272,000 hectares has ...

According to an Australian news site, a man was arrested for attempting to smuggle 44 native reptiles out of Australia. The 24-year old Syd...