Environment

One of the world's biggest storage of carbon is on fire for weeks now. The fire is so bad that it has turned day into night in Sao Paulo, thousands of kilometres away. The Amazon forest in Brazil has witnessed 74,155 fires since January,…

Bhubaneswar: The recent tiger census showed a sorry figure for Odisha. While tiger numbers have increased in the country to 2,967 at present from 1,411 in 2006, there has been a decrease in Odisha. In 2002, there were 192 tigers in…

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Forest and Environment Minister Bikram Keshari Arukh on Tuesday told the Assembly that Odisha had lost 106 deer of different species to hunting in the last three years. A total of 28 deer were killed in 2016-17, 44 in…

Bhubaneswar: Have you ever pondered over the fact that we live in a world where three-fourth of the surface area is water and yet we face a water crisis? What if there was a way to convert seawater into drinking water? Well, there is a way.…

Cuttack: "It's just a couple of ponds here and there inside a desert nowadays," quipped 29-year-old Raju Sahoo, pointing out to River Kathajodi in Cuttack. Raju like many others in the Millennium City has been a regular user of River…

Ninety per cent of humans will perish in 31 years due to climate change, says Australia’s Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration (BNCCR), an independent climate research think-tank. “We must never forget that we are in a…