The mystery behind the deaths of endangered American manatees has been solved. The high concentration of the chemical brevetoxin in red tides lashing the Florida coast is the cause

the last of the Bactrian camels - between 730 to 880 - living in the sparse deserts of Gashun Gobi and Taklimakan along the Sino-Mongolian border, may soon have a sanctuary for themselves. A hairy

The days are certainly numbered for the northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita), one of the world's rarest birds. Their numbers dropped sharply by 17 per cent when 38 of them were struck down by a

Natural sponges from the Mediterranean Sea are fast disappearing. Global warming and overfishing figure among the list of perpetrators of this vanishing act

The Western Ghats in the south of India have forests which are, for some plant species, their exclusive home on this earth. No wonder then, that Western bioprospectors have their eyes set on these forests due to their exquisite quality. But the apparent i

Sri Lanka will play host to an international conference on the biology and conservation of south Asian amphibians and reptiles. The

THE latest addition to the endangered species list is not an exotic animal or bird, but the humble frog, albeit with red legs. After a year-long legal battle, the Californian red-legged frog

The Save Coast Movement (SCM) of Orissa scored a major victory in its campaign to protect the habitat of the olive ridley turtles. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), bowing

IN A move that has raised eyebrows among animal rights activists, Canada called off the seal hunt on its east coast a few weeks ago. The opponents of the hunt suspect that the decision

Sweden may be trying hard to control the phenomenon of acid rain, but the end result is another crisis at hand a dwindling Population of the moose

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