A rare species of tortoise known as 'Batagur Baska' laid 21 eggs at Tortoise Breeding Centre at Karamjal Wildlife Breeding Centre

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has suffered another mass bleaching event - the third in just five years

The week starting on March 16 alone saw a 21 percent reduction compared with the same week one year earlier

A worm-like creature that burrowed on the seafloor more than 500 million years ago may be key to the evolution 

The state is already under orders to stay home, but images of record crowds flocking to beaches such as Malibu and Santa Monica went viral on Sunday

NO2 is mainly produced by vehicles, industrial sites and thermal power stations

A norwester is likely sweep over nine districts of the country, including Dhaka, anytime until 9am on Saturday

Digging an illegal well to irrigate crops is a widespread practice in Spain as water becomes increasingly scarce

The plastic will be replaced with a “soft toy, sustainable paper-based gifts or books

Plastic bags are often ingested by turtles and dolphins who mistake them for food

Since she rarely managed to fill her bucket before dark, she is vulnerable to attacks and is scared

Last summer’s Arctic heatwave will likely top the 2011 record for polar ice sheet loss of 552 billion tonnes, they reported in a pair of studies, published Wednesday in Nature

For the fourth time, near-extinct river turtle ‘Batagur Baska’ laid 35 eggs at a wildlife breeding centre in Karamjal

“Global heating is accelerating,” he said as the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a UN institution, presented its update

The manager of the Ishaqbini Hirola Community Conservancy, Mohammed Ahmednoor, said the two killed giraffes were last spotted more than three months ago

The driving force behind the “green favela” is its leader Lia de Souza, elected a decade ago

“It doesn’t mean I am against development but I want it to be very meaningful, very mindful, and at the right pace — so we don’t actually kill our future”

Ocean temperatures across most of the reef were 0.5 to 1.5 degrees Celsius  above the March average

The garbage is not only polluting the water but also pushing up the risks of environmental hazards, they said

The crisis is so severe that the government has declared a nationwide emergency and urgently appealed for help from the international community

“The problem is that climate models are not good enough to compute exactly how much worse because they under-estimate the influence of greenhouse gases

The Australian National University said Wednesday a team is creating a “shoebox-sized” satellite that will measure forest ground cover and moisture levels using infrared detectors

“Air pollution is a larger public health risk than tobacco smoking,” lead author Jos Lelieveld of the Max Planck Institute in Mainz, Germany told AFP

While Sydney is just under the average with an extra 28 hot days a year, Melbourne added 38 warmer days since the middle of the 20th century

The city beach, named Cap-Manuel, is bordered by turquoise waters on one side and construction sites on the other

Locusts are first seen in the DRC on February 19 in the territory of Aru, in Ituri, Jean-Francois Kamate, agricultural inspector for the area

China is preparing to deploy 100,000 ducks to neighbouring Pakistan to help tackle swarms of crop-eating locusts

The smoky mouse, which is listed as a endangered by the government, live in small pockets of habitat in southeastern Australia that were badly impacted by the summer blazes

Climate scientists are currently examining data from the disaster, which destroyed swathes of southeastern Australia, to determine to what extent they can be attributed to rising temperatures

Canada is currently gripped by indigenous protests that have blocked rail lines for more than two weeks to oppose a natural gas pipeline being built across indigenous lands in British Columbia

Yet little is known about the effects of these "microplastics" — onsea creatures or humans

The acceptance of the proposal came a couple of days after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had proposed transborder collaboration to conserve wildlife which move to and fro across India's border with neighbouring countries

Indian Forest Services officer Parveen Kaswan often shares wildlife photos and videos with informative tidbits on social media

Biological methane is released from undisturbed wetlands, but also from landfills, rice fields and especially belching livestock

Besides, the burning of firewood is also posing threat to the environment

Rivers Severn, Teme and Wye will remain high as rain builds up again from Wednesday morning

A huge swarm of birds migrating is nothing unusual - flocks can fly thousands of miles undetected

Much of India's bird population has sharply declined in the past few decades, according to a major study

The Sun-Sentinel reports that boats and other watercraft are the biggest cause of manatee deaths last year