Tahrcountry Musings

Ships entering Boston harbor has been a constant threat to North Atlantic Right Whales. Risk of collisions between large ships and whales w...

Researcher Teresa Abáigar Ancín, of the Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas (EEZA - CSIC) arid areas experiment station has succeeded in d...

Birds fashioning tools and using them to meet specific needs may sound something straight out of fiction for children .But it is true. Resea...

In a path breaking research, chemists have successfully converted cellulose directly into a building block for plastics and fuels, called HM...

The International Institute for Species Exploration and an international committee of taxonomists have released the list of top 10 new speci...

Alejandro Medina from the organization Kazakhstan Animal Rescue and Education has sent me this good video on cruelty to pets made by them....

Huge impacts sometimes come from humble unexpected sources. What scientists have achieved with the flour beetle ( Tribolium castaneum ) rec...

Here is some good news about Leatherback Turtles. A team of international Scientists have discovered the world’s largest population of nesti...

I was fascinated to read in the journal Polar Biology , about this kidnapping of the chick of its mortal enemy by a Penguin. An adult pengui...

He Knew He Was Right: The Irrepressible Life of James Lovelock and Gaia is a definitive, authorized biography of Jim Lovelock, the iconic fi...

To mark the V World Conference on Mountain Ungulates, to be held from 10-14 November 2009 at the Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos de Gran...

The myriad ways in which nature works never ceases to amaze me. I was reading the other day, a paper by Dr Kristopher Karsten and associates...

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...