Report by Aryaa Sinha The Forest Department of Uttarakhand and Botanical Survey of India have discovered a rare carnivorous plant species: Utricularia Furcellata in the region of…
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Category: Nature
How big is the largest known bacterium? Meet Thiomargarita magnifica
How big should a bacterium be? Most of us know bacteria as microscopic organisms that have a simple structure. They are unicellular (that means that…
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Assam Floods of Summer-Monsoon 2022
Report by Shuchi Giridhar For the past two months, Assam has been suffering from floods. The floods started from May. Over 31 lakh people from…
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Aeschynanthus monetaria Dunn sighted in Arunachal Pradesh after almost a century
The IUCN – International Union for Conservation of Nature – is the global body that monitors all the species of plants and animals in the…
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New species of gecko discovered
Report by Shuchi Giridhar Back in the year 2017, in Visakhapatnam, a gecko was found. The gecko was earlier mistaken to be a known species…
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Sea Grass off Shark Bay, Australia
Scientists from the University of Western Australia wanted to study a field of sea grass on the ocean floor. They wanted to understand the genetic…
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Scientists discover new species of snake in Paraguay
Report by Shuchi Giridhar A new species of non- venomous burrowing snake has been discovered in Paraguay, South America. The snake has been described as…
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Trees of India: Lemon
Feature and all images by Swasti Sharma Whenever we think of a sour thing, lemons and tamarind strike our mind first. After going through a…
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The White Greyheaded Swamphen – Why is it important
Report by Shuchi Giridhar One of the rarest birds in the world, with only one bird of its species known to humans, lives in Odisha.…
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Poland wins the European Tree of the Year Award
Report by Shuchi Giridhar A tree from Poland has won the European tree of the year award for 2022. The tree to have won the…
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