The Great Barrier Reef located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia is the world’s largest coral reef and the biggest single structure made by living organisms. Built by billions of tiny organisms (called coral polyps) over billions of years, it is
In the Indian State of Chhattisgarh, two widows, who belong to Below Poverty Line (BPL) category, have filed FIR with local police reporting theft of two toilets. The women want the police to trace the toilets as soon as possible and punish them accordingly.
A little girl in India is being called the real–life Mowgli, famous character from Rudyard Kiplin’s Jungle Book. She grew up in the wild with a group of monkeys, claims reports. She adapted to behavior like monkeys or animals. She was first seen in Katarniaghat
`Whanganui in New Zealand became world’s first river to get a title of a living human entity in March 2017. After a week of it, Yamuna and Ganga are also given status of living human entities in a landmark judgment given by honorable High Court
Google forced a few heads to turn in 2015 when the search engine giant first announced its plans to develop a new campus that would be different from any workspace built ever before. On recently getting a go-ahead from Mountain View City Council to build,
India is well on road to its planned 100GW solar-power generation capacity by 2022. The biggest problem country is facing with solar plant installations is requirement of huge areas of land. With a floating solar power plant, Thermal Power Corporation Limited plans to change that
According to the Great Backyard Bird Count (GGBC) 2017, northern state of Himachal Pradesh has maximum number of bird species in the country. As per GGBC 2017 and eBird (website that records and maintains global birding data), Himachal Pradesh is home to as many as
In world’s first surgery of its kind, veterinarians in Thailand have removed about 915 coins from a 25-year-old green sea turtle’s guts. The turtle lives at a conservation center in Sriracha, Chonburi, near Bangkok. People visiting here believe throwing coin and currency notes in pond
The National Oil Spill Response Research & Renewable Energy Test Facility in Leonardo, New Jersey, has recently tested a new type of sorbent that can soak upto 90 times its own weight from oil spills. What is remarkable about this sponge is that the oil
Conservation and protection of wild animals and plants is a collective responsibility, yet youth can make a drastic change. With the idea to instill responsibility in youth and explore what wildlife conservation and protection mean to them, this year’s World Wildlife Day (WWD) was celebrated