Two firefighting helicopters collided midair on Sunday near Porto Germeno, west of Athens, while battling a wind-driven wildfire. Each carried a two-person crew; a search-and-rescue operation was underway. The collision is the…
Federal officials have decided not to release cool water from Lake Powell this year, risking the humpback chub, a threatened native fish, to protect hydropower generation. The Bureau of Reclamation said releasing…
Four Air India crew members remain hospitalised after severe turbulence on the airline's Phuket-Delhi flight on August 4, Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu said. Most of the 24 passengers who were…
Researchers have mapped 100 shallow lakes along the Atlantic coast of southern Brazil and Uruguay to create an early-warning system for ecosystem collapse. Published in the journal *One Ecosystem*, the study provides…
Wildfires across Europe are increasingly setting off or exposing unexploded bombs from the two world wars, a report says. In July, a blaze in Germany's Muritz National Park forced bomb disposal teams…
A new island has emerged in Alaska after the Alsek Glacier separated from a rocky landform called Prow Knob, NASA satellite data shows. The break occurred between 13 July and 6 August…
A new global study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has found that about one in every ten butterfly species has shifted its geographic range or moved to a different elevation in…
Wholesale apple prices have already risen ₹500, 800 per 20-kg box from last year, Mint reports, as Himachal Pradesh faces a projected 30% drop in production to 4.93 lakh tonnes this season.…
Times of India reports that in July 2019, wildlife specialists at Florida's Turkey Point nuclear plant rescued 73 newly hatched American crocodiles in a single week. The plant's 270 km of artificial…
A study published in Scientific Reports projects a sharp rise in landslide susceptibility and risk across Karnataka’s Western Ghats by 2050. It examined about 45,000 sq km across seven districts, using machine…
