There were 2,000 vultures in Bharatpur s Keoladeo National Park during the 1980s. In 1998 experts could spot only four . Ornithologist Asad Rahmani fears that the vulture is disappearing throughout India. To find out the reason for this decline,

Pesticides kill insects. Then, they poison animals and birds. Humans are hardly out of reach

Indians consume dangerous amounts of pesticides through their food everyday

Pesticides can render birds sterile. Migratory birds can lose sense of direction. The recent history of the world is full of many such examples ess

A crippling lack of data prevents researchers from reaching conclusions

What can we do to save the birds and ourselves from the chemical menace?

CSE confirms the presence of pesticides in animal carcasses, vultures’ main food source

In the present study, the temporal patterns of monsoon floods on five large rivers of the Deccan Peninsula have been investigated. Analyses of the long-term annual maximum discharge/state data, available for the last 100 years or so, show non-random behaviour in terms of distinct periods of high and low floods.

In this study, a new clean up method was developed for the routine multiresidue determination of organochlorine

Governments and the masses have very rarely worked together successfully in modern India. In Madhya Pradesh, chief minister Digvijay Singh has managed to do that. The state government's watershed management programme in the district of Jhabua has m