Month: May 2019

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Congo: Death Toll From Ebola Outbreak Crosses 1,000

Fiston Mahamba and Stephanie Nebehay 04/05/2019

WHO said hostility towards medical staff was making it...

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Mumbai: Last Captive White Tiger Bajirao Dies at 18

Bajirao was born at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park...

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The Barking Deer Enigma

Bhanu Sridharan 04/05/2019

While found in forests across most parts of India,...

Cyclone-Fani

Cyclone Fani Weakens, Moves Towards Bangladesh

The cyclone barrelled through Odisha on Friday, killing at...

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Film Puts Karnataka’s Biodiversity on the Global Map

Vasudevan Sridharan 04/05/2019

Produced for the Karnataka forest department, India’s first blue-chip...

Indian Army, Indian Army yeti, abominable snowman, biodiversity crisis, Himalayan brown bear, Himalayan black bear, Tibetan brown bear, Gobi Desert, Himalaya, citizen science, bigfoot, sasquatch, Linnaean shortfall, Alfred Russel Wallace, binomial nomenclature, species conservation, mass extinction, Wallacean shortfall,

Indian Army’s Yeti Claim Was Bad Data That Only Worsens Our Biodiversity Crisis

Dhruv Gangadharan 04/05/2019

It is pragmatic to filter wrong information out rather...

Labour, workers health, safety standards, occupational hazards

On May Day, India’s Temple Builders Demand Workplace Safety Against Silicosis

Priyanka Jain and Jibitesh Sahoo 03/05/2019

400 workers occupied the streets of Pindwara’s RIICO to...