Sydney: Some coral reef fish may be better prepared to cope with rising carbon dioxide in the world's oceans - thanks to their parents.

Washington: Climate change could nearly wipe out the leatherback turtles, the largest on earth, which grow up to a length of seven feet and weigh 900 kg, says a study.

Lucknow: Authorities in Uttar Pradesh Monday ordered a probe into the death of thousands of fishes which have died in the river Gomti here.

London: People need to stop stamping on cockroaches, as one of the most despised of all insects is essential to our planet for converting nitrogen into fertiliser, experts have said.

Moscow: Prehistoric hunters are not to blame for mammoths becoming extinct in Russia's far eastern region, a new joint Russian-American study has said.

Chandigarh: Chandigarh's famous Sukhna Lake, the most-visited tourist spot in the 'City Beautiful', is gasping for breath and attention.

Sydney: Your coffee and cocoa drinking and use of wood products every day puts 30 percent of world's under-threat species at still greater risk because of loss of biodiversity, a study has pointed out.

Beed: India's national bird, the peacock, is under severe threat from nature's vagaries at one of the largest peacock national parks in the country at Naigaon here.

The hills of Himachal Pradesh Tuesday were unusually hot with prominent tourist spots recording maximum temperatures two to five degrees above the average, the weather office here said. Shimla's maximum temperature was six degrees Celsius above the average.

The death toll from sunstroke climbed to 21 in Odisha with officials Monday confirming the death of a 55-year-old man in Khordha district.

Arunachal Pradesh: The humble paddy has come to the rescue of elephants facing retaliation from villagers during human-elephant conflict in and around the Pakke Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh.

Agra: Nineteen years after many people died in a water tragedy that struck the Taj city, residents of Agra continue to battle water pollution in the Yamuna river and suffer health hazards caused by the municipal water supply.

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB) will launch a campaign to protect the fish wealth of the state on the occasion of 'International Day for Biological Diversity' (IDB).

Patna: There is an urgent need to save the Ganges, Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said here Saturday after undertaking an aerial survey of the river with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

Berlin: Scientists have punched holes in Antarctic's viability by refuting the prevalent assumption that its Weddell Sea ice shelves would remain impervious to global warming due to the sea's peripheral location.

Jakarta: The Asia-Pacific region must continue to grow economically to lift millions of people out of poverty, but it must also respond to climate change to survive, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) said in a report released on Thursday.

Sydney: Genetic evidence from an Antarctic octopus indicates that the West Antarctic ice sheet – one of the world's major ice sheets – could collapse if temperatures keep climbing.

Agartala: India's northeast region has been hit by a severe power crisis for a week following the collapse of vital power transmission towers, prolonged dry spells and falling water levels in rivers and reservoirs, a Tripura minister said here on Thursday.

New Delhi: House sparrows are an indicator of the environmental health of an area, and their disappearance could be linked to a rise in infectious diseases and ecological change, say experts.

New Delhi/Srinagar: It is an animal that is as much an icon of Kashmir as the beautiful Dal Lake and its shikaras. The magnificent spiral-horned Markhor, the largest member of the goat family, has for centuries inhabited the high mountains of Kashmir. But human greed and interference have placed this graceful animal on the 'critically endangered' list with barely 350 members remaining.

Bhubaneswar: Poachers have struck again in Odisha's Simlipal National Park with carcasses of four more elephants, apparently poisoned, recovered from the reserve, officials said on Monday.

Sydney: Gen Y, aged between 13 to 30 years is heavily dependent on power intensive technology like iPods and laptops. They shrug off messages to conserve energy despite rising environmental concerns, according to a study.

Washington: Loss of biodiversity seems to affect ecosystems as much as climate change, pollution and other major forms of environmental stress, says a new study.

Washington: Telecom towers are killing nearly seven million birds every year as they migrate from the US and Canada to Central and South America, says a new study.

Lima: Fishermen and environmentalists are calling on officials to investigate the deaths of more than 200 pelicans on the beaches of northern Peru, media reports said.

Washington: Warm ocean currents attacking the underside of ice shelves may help explain recent ice loss from Antarctica, says a new study.

Yangon: Natural teak forests are in decline worldwide, almost half of which grow in Myanmar, the UN Food and Agricultural Organization has said. Such forests grow only in three other countries today, namely India, Laos and Thailand.

London: In a brazen attack carried out by helicopter-borne poachers, a herd of 22 elephants were killed and their tusks and genitals hacked off at a national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a media report said on Wednesday, April 25, 2012.

London: London Mayor Boris Johnson has been accused by opposition Labour MPs of using dust particle suppressants around air quality monitors in the British capital to bring down the monitor readings.

Johannesburg: A 25-year-old Vietnamese man was arrested when he was trying to leave the country with three rhino horns, authorities said.

Shimla: Forests are vanishing, rock blasts are traumatising wild animals and debris is filling up riverbeds with builders having a field day in Himachal Pradesh, says a report by a state government-appointed commission.

Shimla: As the Himachal Pradesh government and the Indian Army fight it out over controlling Shimla's historical, verdant and picturesque Annandale ground, many residents are dead set against the state's move to set up a multipurpose stadium in the area.

Moscow: A growing population of gray wolves in northern Russia has put people's livelihood in danger after the predators killed over 1,700 domestic reindeer, more than 100 horses and a few cows this year.

Sydney: Acidic oceans are dramatically altering the ability of baby corals to sense their surroundings, says a study.

Berlin: The seas are littered with large quantities of microplastic particles, plastics in small bits and pieces, endangering the lives of marine creatures, says a report.

Thiruvananthapuram: Tucked away inside a heavily forested area, Kerala's only Scheduled Tribes (ST) panchayat Idamalakkudy is home to some of the world's most endangered plant species but the rich biodiversity is fast dwindling as is the tribals' unique way of life, say worried researchers.

New Delhi: PM Manmohan Singh said there is need to "act quickly" to restore the glory of the Ganga river, which provides water to over 40% of India's population in 11 states, but it should be done in a "rational and practical" way and not in a "piecemeal" manner.

New Delhi: As India strives hard to protect its big cats, a study in a tiger reserve has found that busy highways and excessive road expansion will destroy wildlife populations and their habitats in the long term, as large mammals avoid such areas.

Washington: Per capita meat consumption need to be halved by 2050 in the developed world if the emission of nitrous oxide (N2O), one of the most important greenhouse gases, is to be curbed, as set out by the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Bangkok: Rising temperatures are triggering severe outbreaks of new, invasive pests that could threaten Southeast Asia's multi-billion dollar cassava industry and the livelihoods of thousands of small farmers, a study reveals.

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court issued notice to the government, Nuclear Power Corporation of India and others in a public suit challenging the proposed 9,900-MW Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP) coming up in Ratnagiri in Maharashtra.

New Delhi: Gurgaon, India's aspiring lower Manhattan, may soon end up with no water, but overflowing sewage.

Guwahati: Forest officials of the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) have recovered the body of a rhino from Bagori forest range of the National Park Wednesday. The rhino's horn was, however, missing.

Washington: The unbridled growth of moose, deer and other herbivore populations is contributing to deforestation thanks to the loss of predators such as wolves.

London: Polar bears in Alaska have been seen with missing patches of fur, and reports say it may be due to a "mystery illness" related to the nuclear accident at the Fukushima power plant in Japan.

Shimla: Less than 12 percent of the total sewage generated in Himachal Pradesh capital Shimla is treated, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has said.

Vienna: The European Space Agency's Envisat satellite continues to record the rapid retreat of one of Antarctica's ice shelves due to atmospheric warming.

Washington: The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that last March was the warmest in recorded history, creating thunderstorms and tornadoes across the country.

Washington: Shrinking sea ice, snow and glaciers, especially in high-latitude regions where water is frozen for some time, the cryosphere, is affecting the ecosystem in hidden ways.

Washington: Harvard scientists help show the fullest picture of how global spikes in carbon dioxide (CO2) combined to finish off the last ice age 20,000 to 10,000 years ago.

Mumbai: Two giant Baleen's humpback whale sharks washed up dead on the Mumbai and Thane beaches in separate incidents last week. This was preceded by a Bryde's whale shark getting washed ashore at a beach in Ratnagiri, around 250 km south of Mumbai.

Toronto: A gene identified in balsam fir trees could lower cost of producing plant-based fixatives used in the perfume industry and reduce the need for ambergris, a whale compound, a study reveals.

Agra: The owners of an Agra-based firm were taken into custody after thousands of sea snakes, sea horses and various other sea creatures, some banned under the Wild Life Act, were found in formalin-filled drums in the company's warehouse, police said.

Guwahati: A leopard skin has been seized near the famed Manas Tiger Reserve in Assam and one person has been arrested, an official said.

New Delhi: Haryana tops the list of 16 States where environment and forest clearance norms are being violated for various projects.

Berlin: Converting farmland to grow bio-energy crops could be ruinous to wildlife, says a study.

Stockholm: Hurricanes, torrential downpours and droughts will become more frequent with global warming, threatening species especially in bio-diverse ecosystems and tropical rainforests.

Mumbai: Expressing concern over cruelty to rats, People for the Ethical Treatment to Animals (PETA) and Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) have asked the Central Warehousing Corp (CWC) to stop testing its airplane-cabin fumigation process on live rats.

Washington: Increasing reliance on fertilisers has caused a dramatic spike in atmospheric nitrous oxide (N2O), a major greenhouse gas contributing to global climate change, says a new study.

Sydney: Corals may yet be able to survive the acidification of the world's oceans, escaping the effects of climatic devastation.

Geneva: Evidence suggests that climate change has led to extreme weather conditions such as heat waves, record high temperatures and, in many regions, heavy precipitation in the past half century, according to a report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

New Delhi: Poaching, over-use of pesticides and loss of habitat may lead to the extinction of 14 bird species in India.

Mexico City: Environmental watchdog Greenpeace denounced on World Water Day the pollution of rivers and other surface waters in Mexico and asked the government to establish a policy of zero dumping of toxic substances by 2020.

Kolkata: In a bid to reduce man-elephant conflict and rehabilitate jumbos driven away from the herd, the West Bengal government is planning to set up two 'Elephant Rescue Centres' on a pilot basis.

Beijing: In a bid to conserve water in the arid Chinese capital, Beijing authorities are pondering to restrict water usage by bathhouses, golf courses and ski resorts.

Guwahati: An Assam-based wildlife conservation group has questioned the legality behind the Assam forest department's recent move of 'dehorning' a one-horned rhino.

Agra: Hundreds of activists, students and senior citizens walked along the banks of the bone-dry river Yamuna in Agra Sunday in a symbolic rally to highlight the grave threat to the Taj Mahal from a dry river bed.

Raipur: Three tigers were among 69 animals killed in the wild in Chhattisgarh since 2009-10, while the state government has spent a little over Rs 116 crore on the protection of animals during the period, an official said.

Even though plastic bags constitute a minuscule portion of total plastic consumption, environmental hazards caused by littering of the waste has brought the industry into negative light, a top government official said today.

New Delhi: For millennia, they have shared the world with their human masters. They have carried their owners in the thick of battle, across grasslands, hills, plains and the highest mountains. But there has never been a more trying time for India's six indigenous breeds of horses than now: the Kathiawari horse, the Marwari horse, the Zanskari pony, the Spiti pony, the Bhotia pony and the Manipuri pony are threatened by the loss of genetic purity, say experts.

New Delhi: Highlighting the importance of the Kosi river corridor in the Corbett tiger reserve in Uttarakhand, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said on Sunday that the crucial pathway is facing a threat from upcoming resorts and hotels.

London: The British wildlife is headed for tough times while trying to breed during a spell of drought, experts have warned.

New Delhi: India is doing more than its fair share in reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but developed countries need to be more sensitive to carbon emission, said the latest economic survey.

Srinagar: Thirty years ago, Avend village in the south Kashmir district of Shopian was also called "Talaab Gaam" because of dozens of fresh water ponds surrounding it. All but one of these ponds have now disappeared because of encroachments and other constructions.

Paris: The Greenland ice sheet is more sensitive to global warming than predicted, for a relatively small, but long term -temperature rise would melt it completely, according to a latest study.

A team of scientists from Japan began studying the underwater behaviour of the endangered Irrawaddy dolphin in the world-famous Chilika lake, a senior state official said.

Crabs, insects and spiders, hit by the huge 2010 oil spill from the rig Deepwater Horizon, surprisingly recovered within a year if their host plants remained healthy, a study reveals.

Fearing that climate change could wipe out their entire Pacific archipelago, the leaders of Kiribati are considering an unusual backup plan: moving the populace to Fiji.

Climate change combined with human activity caused the disappearance of tropical rainforests in central Africa 3,000 years ago, a study has found.

King penguin colonies have rallied from the brink of extinction and are well on the way to recovery thanks to recent conservation efforts, a study reveals.

Over 700 endangered animals kept in parks, zoos and by acrobatic groups here will soon get a microchip planted to track their numbers and living conditions.

Tropical sea cucumbers could protect coral reefs from the devastating effects of climate change, a new finding says.

Dealing with biodiversity crisis requires political will and it needs to be based on a solid scientific knowledge if we are to ensure a safe future for the planet, a new study has suggested.

In what is claimed to be a world first, scientists have measured the relationship between current climate, climate change and habitat loss on plants and animals on a global scale.

Agriculture can keep pace with the ever growing global demand for food only by reducing its dependence on fossil fuels, warns a UN Food and Agriculture Organisation report.

The Himalayan region which is home to the world's tallest peaks, including Mount Everest, is particularly vulnerable as rising temperatures disturb the balance of snow, ice and water, threatening 1.3 billion people living downstream along Asia's major river basins, the head of a research body says.

Mines are coming up in critical tiger habitat, resulting in fragmentation of large blocks of contiguous forests needed for tigers to roam in, said a report Tuesday, urging that no new mines in tiger areas should be given forest clearance.

Rising air pollution levels can seriously affect cloud formation in ways that reduce precipitation in dry areas, while increasing rain, snowfall and severe storms in wet regions or seasons worldwide.

Fish and other sea creatures will have to travel large distances to survive climate change, marine scientists have warned.

A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly.

Emphasis on biofuels as an alternative to conventional fuels would increase carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from forests by 14 percent, researchers said.

Washing machines are becoming a major source of harmful microplastic pollution - bits of polyester and acrylic smaller than a pinhead - which is littering sea shores worldwide.

Sea levels will rise by 60 cm by the end of the century and by another 180 cm over the next four centuries, submerging many low-lying and coastal areas worldwide, researchers have said.

A US federal judge has thrown out a ruling that said the threat to polar bears posed by global warming could not be used to limit industrial development.

Many plants and animals, including polar bears, are shrinking due to the impact of climate change on their natural habitats, say scientists.

India has been placed seventh in the list of 21 developing countries for its vulnerability in being able to feed its people and grow food, according to a study released Monday.

Increasing cattle, movement of security forces, construction of new highways and roads and illegal felling -- all these factors have led to a 50 percent degradation of forests in Jammu and Kashmir in the last three decades.