Wellington, Nov 26 (IANS) About 145 pilot whales died in New Zealand after being stranded during the weekend on Stewart Island in the extreme south of the country, officials said on Monday. A hiker alerted…
Beijing, Nov 26 (IANS) A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit areas near the Taiwan Strait on Monday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicentre was monitored at 23.28 degrees north latitude and 118.60 degrees…
Baghdad, Nov 26 (IANS) A strong earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale hit the border area between Iraq and Iran and was felt in the capital Baghdad and many Iraqi provinces, a seismic monitor…
San Francisco, Nov 26 (IANS) The Camp Fire — the deadliest blaze in the history of California that has claimed at least 85 lives and destroyed 14,000 residences — has been fully contained, authorities announced…
Baghdad, Nov 26 (IANS) A strong earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale hit the border area between Iraq and Iran on Sunday, an Iraqi seismic monitor said. The quake was felt in Iraq capital…
New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) The air quality around the national capital and surrounding areas will be oscillating between “poor” and “very poor” for till Wednesday, SAFAR said. According to the System of Air Quality…
Shimla, Nov 25 (IANS) Temperature across Himachal Pradesh on Sunday showed a rise due to the prevailing dry conditions, which the Met said will be there till Tuesday, when the western disturbances will set in….
Harare, Nov 25 (IANS) Five Finnish nationals — two business executives a owner of legal firm, a leading IT executive and their pilot — were killed while on a hunting trip when their private plane…
New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) The national capital on Sunday witnessed a misty morning with the minimum temperature recorded at 10.4 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season’s average as the air quality improved to…
Srinagar, Nov 25 (IANS) The Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir remained in deep freeze on Sunday with Kargil recording minus 9.5 degrees Celsisus as cold wave conditions continued to sweep the valley, the Met…
Washington, Nov 24 (IANS) A new US government report has delivered a dire warning about climate change and its devastating impact, saying that the economy could lose hundreds of billions of dollars by the end…
New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) It was a misty Saturday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 13.4 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average and the air quality remained…
Bonn, Nov 24 (IANS) The global climate finance flows have increased with a bulk of it continuing to go towards efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the UN Climate Change secretariat said. A relatively small…
Srinagar, Nov 24 (IANS) The minimum temperatures across the Kashmir Valley were remained below freezing point on Saturday as a cold wave continued in the region, the weather office said. “The minimum temperatures throughout the…
Washington, Nov 24 (IANS) A new US government report has delivered a dire warning about climate change and its devastating impacts, saying that the economy could lose hundreds of billions of dollars by the end…
New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) The air quality deteriorated to ‘very poor’ in the national capital and areas around it due to low wind speed and marginal effect of stubble burning in neighbouring states. Several…
Kolkata, Nov 23 (IANS) A person was on Friday arrested from West Bengal’s Murshidabad district for trying to smuggle a rare species of takshak snake (gecko) worth Rs 9 crore, police said. “A man named…
Shillong, Nov 23 (IANS) A 38-year-old coal merchant, wanted in the murder attempt on Meghalaya’s frontline women’s rights activist Agnes Kharshiing and her aide, was arrested from Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Assam on…
New York, Nov 23 (IANS) A novel programme designed to reduce Earth’s heat capture by injecting aerosols into the atmosphere from high-altitude aircraft “is possible”, but unreasonably costly, suggests a study. Researchers from the Harvard…
New York, Nov 23 (IANS) Human ancestors played little to no role in driving mammal extinction in ancient African ecosystems, instead it is related to environmental change, say researchers overturning decades of thinking on ancient…