Disruption of traditional migratory routes due to rapid industrialisation and infrastructure development is one of the main reasons for the rising number of human-elephant conflicts, say nature conservation division (NCD) officials.

According to records with NCD, wild elephants destroyed about 132 acres of land in 2007 alone.

The worst recorded was in 2005, when about 265 acres of cropland i

In December 2008, when Ishita Khanna, 29, co-founder of Ecos-phere, won the Pepsi MTV Youth Icon of the Year award in the entrepreneur category, her peers were not surprised.

Staples Inc and Home Depot Inc are collaborating with environmental groups in a pilot program aimed at conserving fast-disappearing Southern U.S. forests, organizers said on Thursday.

Villagers are fleeing to safety as elephants move into their domain in search of food and fodder----------

Kandhmal is back in the news - but this time around it is not communal riots. The district which caught inter-

Around 2,500 monkeys in Madaripur are facing acute food crisis as the "Programme for protection and development of endangered monkeys in Char Muguria area" ended on June 30.

Quite a few monkeys have already died due to food crisis while many mother monkeys, passing days starved or half-starved, are even unable to breast feed their babies, locals said.

Idyllic scenes of palm trees swaying over sandy beaches have long decorated brochures meant to lure tourists to Indonesia and Malaysia. But few visitors see the giant palm plantations away from the shore.

The Arctic ice pack melted this summer to its third-smallest size on record, up slightly from the low points of the past two years but continuing an overall shrinking trend symptomatic of climate change, U.S. scientists said on Thursday.

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LARGE-SCALE unauthorised development in and around the sterile zone of the Kalpakkam nuclear complex is being planned, violating national and international reactor guidelines and putting to risk the security of the nuclear establishment and the people.