Indians were probably the first to domesticate the red jungle fowl and realize its medicinal and nutritional worth.
The lockdown has given us an opportunity to review our take on the prisons we built for our recreation.
Some trace the origin of COVID-19 virus to bats but these creatures of the night are more than virus carriers.
The forest, capable of meeting our basic needs of food, shelter and fuel, can act as a model of sustainable living for all of us.
Thanks to the trade and imperial ventures of humans, these disease-causing organisms could cross regional boundaries and spread infection.
Humans are really strange. They love giving awkward names to other living beings. For example, I am called a 'virus'. In Latin, it means poison or poisonous liquid. Well, humans do seem to enjoy giving names carrying negative connotations. My other name, 'pathogen', is not encouraging either. So, what is a pathogen? If you Google it, you will get the following explanation: 'Pathos' is the Greek word for disease and genes means 'born of'.
Scientists have mapped how increasing temperatures will impact the population and distribution of the disease spreading mosquitoes in the world
Stop behaving like humans. Set a final deadline for our human eradication programme.
Learn how to create a mini aquarium model and watch the vibrant colours of the sea enhance the look of your house
What tigers eat and the space they occupy protects the health of their entire ecosystem.
Bees are indispensable pollinators and exist in all types of climate—from forests in Europe, deserts in Africa to the Arctic Circle. But what would happen if all of them just disappeared one day? Here's a look.
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What if one day you step into your house and find there is no food. The refrigerator is empty and you switch on the television to know more. A news channel tells you that there is a food crisis and the reason for this is that there are no bees left in the world...
The Aravallis, with their vast landscape and biological diversity, have shaped the northern landscape of India in more ways than one. But despite all this, the mountain range is under severe threat from mining and large-scale real estate developments.
About 30,000 years ago, a squirrel chose a home for itself in Siberia, Russia. Today, the home is 30m below the surface in a layer of permafrost. The squirrel is long gone, but tiny roundworms, a type of nematode have survived in this home. They lasted for all these years, frozen and immobile. Russian scientists have now revived them and are making the worms the first multicellular organisms to have survived being frozen in the Arctic permafrost.
Water storage vessels like bottles, drums and pots should be cleaned and kept covered...
Use mosquito nets. Don't wear clothes that expose your hands and legs and use a mosquito repellent cream.
Mr Rakesh Khatri has actively promoted sparrow conservation. Since 2007, he has been building nests for sparrows using natural material like bamboo, jute and coir. He trains young people to build these nests so that they could put them up around the city.
An easy and eco-friendly way to build a nest for small birds such as the sparrow.
In an urbanized world, we have cut down trees and taken over the natural habitat of the birds.
This is the first animal that has become extinct because of human-induced climate change. The little brown rodent is called the Bramble Cay Melomys (Melomys rubicola) and is a former inhabitant of Australia.
Its habitat was the tiny 4 hectare Bramble Cay, located on the northern end of the Great Barrier Reef. It was last sighted in 2009. The Australian government confirmed its extinction on 18 February 2019.
One upon a time, in the great blue ocean there lived a turtle called Tundra. She travelled miles and miles from the Pacific Ocean to the warm waters in the Indian Ocean. When she reached the shoreline, she could not believe her eyes. It was at the same beach she had first set foot on when she was a baby. It was the best beach to lay eggs.
