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Odisha To Deploy Rapid Action Force To Control Similipal Forest Fire

Forest fires are a recurring phenomenon in the state...

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6% Of Protected Areas Worldwide Is Crop Land, Study Finds

Morgan Erickson Davis 08/03/2021

Study highlights need to develop quantitative measures to improve...

Waste collectors look for recyclable materials at a landfill site in New Delhi.

Odisha Tops List Of Most Contaminated Sites Posing Grave Health Threat

Remediation work has been started to clean up 14...

A woman carries her son in a bucket after collecting water from a municipal water tanker on the outskirts of Chennai, July 4, 2019. Photo: Reuters/P. Ravikumar

Feminist Perspective Needed In Environmental Studies To Combat Climate Crisis

As climate change makes water sources scarce, women stand...

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How Environmental Change May Have Played A Role At The Dawn Of Egyptian History

Benjamin T Pennington 07/03/2021

Natural landscape changes in the Nile Delta may have...

Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team, tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), don personal protection suits during a visit at the Hubei Animal Epidemic Disease Prevention and Control Center in Wuhan, Hubei province, China February 2, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

World No Closer To Answer On COVID Origins Despite WHO Probe

David Stanway 06/03/2021

Critics are accusing the WHO of relying too much...

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Gujarat Govt Says 313 Gir Lions Dead In Two Years

The Wire Staff 06/03/2021

The lions census 2020 was postponed due to the...