by Urmi Bhattacharjee | Jun 13, 2018 | Climate Change, Home, News, Pollution, Rivers, Solar, Wildlife
Unable to improve air quality, protect biodiversity, and cut greenhouse gas emissions, India, say available data, stands today at the rock bottom of Global Environment Performance Index (EPI) rankings for 2018. In the year 2016, India ranked 141 of 180 countries. In...
by Urmi Bhattacharjee | May 22, 2018 | Health and Fitness, Home, News, Wildlife
Three leopard cubs which were found by tea garden workers have been safely reunited with their mother. This was done by isolating the area and providing the mother undisturbed access at Rangagora Tea Estate, Tinsukia. This is a truly heart-warming story of the lost...
by The Third Pole | May 1, 2018 | Health and Fitness, Home, News, Wildlife
The smallest member of pig family (pygmy hog or porcula salvania) is an endangered species. It was once found in a thin strip of wet grassland plains in the Himalayan foothills: from Uttar Pradesh to Assam and through Nepal’s terai areas and Bengal’s duars. It was...
by Muqbil Ahmar | Apr 23, 2018 | Civil society, Home, News, Pollution, Sustainability, Wildlife
Bollywood celebrities such as Dia Mirza, Anushka Sharma, Richa Chadha, Yuvraj Singh, Juhi Chawla, and many others came together on the occasion of Earth Day 2018 and sent out a strong message that everyone should do their best to make planet Earth a better place to...
by Urmi Bhattacharjee | Apr 18, 2018 | Health and Fitness, Home, News, Wildlife
A leading animal and wildlife protection group has expressed dismay over the killing of the Lalgarh tiger spotted in Lalgarh in West Bengal, which was reportedly by local hunters who used spears, bows, and arrows to kill the cornered creature on 13 April. The Lalgarh...
by SANDRP | Mar 27, 2018 | Climate Change, Health and Fitness, Home, Rivers, Sustainability, Wildlife
The fact that most civilizations of the world flourished on river banks is more or less uncontested. The examples of early river-valley civilizations range from Indus Civilization near the Indus River to Mesopotamia along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, Egypt on the...
