The Pennine hills are likely to become ground zero for combating climate change. In northern England’s peatland bogs, thousands of strategically made holes, called “scallop bunds,” are aiding in bringing back destroyed peatlands to life, sequestering carbon, and restoring wetlands. Researchers at The University of Manchester and conservation organisations such as The National Trust claim…
Parakeets fluttering in and out of people’s houses, gardens and urban parks are becoming a regular occurrence in many places. However, experts suggest that the bright green parakeets might actually provide information on climate change, biodiversity, urban ecology, habitat shifts and the state of the environment. In fact, according to the research done on ring-necked…
GUWAHATI: For decades, the railway tracks running through Assam’s Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary (HGS) in Jorhat district did more than just carrying trains. It cut the forest canopy into two, turning treetop highways into dead ends and splitting families of India’s only ape species, the Western Hoolock Gibbon, inside their only home in the country.Hoolock gibbons…
