Jackal caught 50 mtr from airport runway
Indore: Forest officials on Sunday caught a jackal merely 50 metres away from the runway at Devi Ahilyabai Holkar airport here. The development came as the forest department is running a drive at the...
View ArticleTwo-seater aircraft crashes off the runway at Redcliffe
A light aircraft has crashed off the runway at Redcliffe Airport at Rothwell. Emergency services were called...
View ArticleClasses resume, but all's not well at science college
Kolkata: Ballygunge Science College resumed its classes on Monday - exactly a week after a blazing fire gutted portions of the zoology department - but problems were far from over in its corridors. If...
View ArticleThe Government Is Changing Tower Lights to Save the Birds
Birds hanging out near an airport in Seattle, Washington. (Flickr/Ingrid Taylar) Flashing lights can be the difference between life and death for bicyclists, for kids getting off school buses, for...
View Article10 of the best places to photograph wildlife in the UK
You don’t need to go on an African safari to take great wildlife photographs. Photographer Andrew Marshall, whose new photo-location guidebook gives advice on how to capture UK wildlife, selects 10...
View ArticleNGO refutes mayor’s charge on park upkeep
Gurgaon: The NGO, which takes care of the upkeep of Aravalli Biodiversity Park, has rubbished mayor Vimal Yadav's charge that the park is not being maintained properly. The NGO on Tuesday said 75,000...
View ArticleDebris piles misery on city
Construction and demolition (C&D) waste is the largest contributor of pollution in Bengaluru, bigger than the municipal solid waste (MSW). The city is the fourth largest C&D waste generator in...
View Article2 lions escape from parks in Kenya and South Africa
A lion was shot dead in Kenya on Wednesday after attacking a man, while trackers in South Africa searched for a lion whose own escape from a park prompted appeals to wildlife officials to relocate it...
View ArticleNagpur-Mumbai Air India aircraft suffers tyre burst; some passengers injuries
--> An Air India aircraft with over 150 passengers on board suffered a tyre burst while taxiing after it landed at Mumbai airport...
View ArticleAir India flight's tyre bursts while landing at Mumbai airport
--> An Air India aircraft with over 150 passengers on board suffered a tyre burst while taxiing after it landed at Mumbai airport...
View ArticleEmergency evacuation of Air India flight to city after smoke is detected
Mumbai: An Air India flight did an emergency evacuation soon after the aircraft had landed at the Mumbai airport on Monday morning. Flight 620 from Hyderabad with 120...
View ArticleMicrolight pilot dies after pylon crash near Rochester
A pilot has died after his microlight hit an electricity pylon and burst into flames near Rochester in Kent. The 56-year-old man, from...
View ArticleVaranasi faces garbage disposal crisis
Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary constituency, where he launched the Clean India Campaign on November 8, 2014, is facing the worst solid waste disposal crisis. Since the day of...
View ArticleBirds expected to adapt well to climate change show 'substantial advantage'
Species expected to suit changing conditions have outperformed other birds in the past 30 years, joint European-US study shows...
View ArticleRevealed: The birds adapting well to climate change
Birds that were expected to do well due to climate change have outperformed other species in the past 30 years, a study of wildlife in Europe and the US has found. Scientists said they have shown that...
View ArticleFlying to Delhi? Be ready for delays due to runway repairs
--> Those flying to Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) may face inconvenience as the airport is set to undertake some necessary and preventive repair works on runway 10/28....
View ArticleSteamy heat now takes its toll on Mumbai's animals, birds
--> Thane SPCA alone, in last one week, took care of five kites, six pigeons, two monkeys, one langur, four cats and nine dogs, all terribly dehydrated Mumbai's sweltering heat is not only affecting...
View ArticleParrot species in US cities may rival that in native Mexico
U.S. researchers are launching studies on Mexico's red-crowned parrot — a species that has been adapting so well to living in cities in California and Texas after escaping from the pet trade that the...
View ArticleShut it down till segregation: MoEF panel on Deonar
Coming down heavily on the BMC for the state of affairs at the Deonar dumping ground, the two-member panel of scientists constituted by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has recommended...
View ArticlePresident Jokowi agrees to relocate Margono Airport at Wondama Bay
Wondama Bay (ANTARA News) - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has expressed his agreement to relocate the Margono Airport at Wondama Bay in Waisor District, West Papua, to a more spacious area. "The...
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