Thomas Lovejoy in 1980 coined the term ‘Biological Diversity’ which was later modified by E. O. Wilson in 1986 [...]

Other than the polar regions, the Himalayas follow as the largest deposit of frozen water in the world, especially [...]

Himalayan glaciers make up about 17 per cent of the Himalayas and about 37 per cent of the Karakoram [...]

Climate Change in the Himalayas is a major topic of worry for climate watchers in the Subcontinent and across [...]

Parties to the historic Paris Accord on climate change signed in 2015 meet in Bonn next week, and their [...]

Not being residentially inhabited by human populations and instead being a place where largely scientific research is the mainstay, [...]

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) in its Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report published in 2015 states that increase [...]

Changes in Global Atomic Policy The 2005 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to the International Atomic Energy Agency [...]

Black carbon is a substance responsible for up to 40 per cent of the effects of global warming till [...]

The disappearance of the dinosaurs is probably the world’s most famous example of a mass extinction, but it’s certainly [...]

Demystifying ecosystem services […]

  Water is considered mining’s biggest casualty of all time given the huge scale at which mining of different [...]

Humanity will have used up its allowance of planetary resources such as water, soil, and clean air for all [...]

Article 1 of the UN Convention to combat desertification defines land degradation as a “reduction or loss in arid, [...]

When we talk about pollution, thermal pollution rarely comes to our minds. However, with the innumerable thermal power plants [...]

Drought is a climatic condition, which is characterized by lack of precipitation and dryness. Drought prone areas are identified [...]

The ozone layer is a belt of naturally occurring ozone gas in the stratosphere. It absorbs the harmful ultraviolet [...]