Stockholm Water Prize 2026: Kaveh Madani, Water Governance & SIWI
Why in news? The Stockholm International Water Institute announced that Professor Kaveh Madani, Director of the United Nations Universityβs Institut...
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Why in news? The Stockholm International Water Institute announced that Professor Kaveh Madani, Director of the United Nations Universityβs Institut...
Why in news? The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released a 2025 assessment treating the Indian wolf as a distinct taxon and cat...
Why in news? A recent survey of the Hindon River in western Uttar Pradesh reported zero dissolved oxygen at several sites, indicating that the water i...
Why in news? Authorities have launched a plan to relocate Asiatic wild water buffaloes from the Kaziranga National Park in Assam to the Kanha Tiger Re...
Why in news? Scientists from Tamralipta Mahavidyalaya and Vidyasagar University have described a new species of estuarine fish from the Rupnarayan Riv...
Why in news? Scientists from the Zoological Survey of India and MES Mampad College have reported the first cases of gynandromorphy in the freshwater c...
Why in news? On 27 February 2026, India submitted its first National Report on the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biologic...
Why in news? The Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change announced that two new chicks of the Great Indian Bustard have hatched at th...
Why in news? Scientists have reported the discovery of a new earthworm species called Drawida vazhania from the Vazhani Dam area in the PeechiβVazha...
Why in news? The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released a report warning that improper disposal of unused or expired medicines poses...
Why in news? The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has reported the discovery of nine previously unknown species during faunal surveys in the Megamalai...
Why in news? Botanists from the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) have rediscovered Henckelia monophylla, a rare flowering plant, in the forests of Arun...