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Animals & Wildlife Climate Change Forest & Biodiversity
Butterflies, Do Not Fly Away
Butterflies aren’t just pretty creatures, they play a vital role in our ecosystem and food production. After bees, they are the second most important pollinators in the insect world. Unfortunately, this is changing as the vast urbanisation, deforestation, forest fires, excessive use of pesticides is acting as deterrent to the population of butterflies and moths. […]
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By Bhadra Mahapatra
20 Sep 2023
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Animals & Wildlife Forest & Biodiversity Highlights
Dive Into The Ocean
Kat Zhou is an award-winning nature photographer based in San Francisco, California. Awarded the Ocean Art 2022 award for her photograph of a Caribbean Reef Octopus with its eggs Zhou’s passion for underwater photography has led to creation of textures and patterns, perfectly complementing her bold photography style. She has also won the 2023 Underwater Photographer […]
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By Bhadra Mahapatra
13 Sep 2023
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Animals & Wildlife Climate Change Highlights
Emperor Penguins Face Extinction Due To Climate Change
The time’s ticking for the majestic Emperor Penguins, as the Antarctic sea ice continues to disappear due to rise in climate change, says a recent study, published in Communications Earth and Environment. Amid the swift escalation of global temperatures, the depletion of Antarctica’s sea ice to historically low levels jeopardises the survival of a paramount […]
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By Bhadra Mahapatra
25 Aug 2023
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Animals & Wildlife Climate Change Forest & Biodiversity
Climate Change Made Canadian Wildfires Worse, Shows Study
In the summer of 2023, Quebec, Canada witnessed an alarming surge in extreme fires, which were found to be twice as likely and more intense due to human-caused global heating, according to researchers. The World Weather Attribution (WWA), a climate change research initiative, recently released a report highlighting the connection between climate change and the […]
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By LMB Staff
24 Aug 2023
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Animals & Wildlife Forest & Biodiversity Highlights
Ecuador Votes Against Oil Drilling In Amazon Protected Area 
In a historic move, the people of Ecuador have rejected drilling of oil in the Amazon protected area. Almost 60 percent of the voters put a halt on the oil extraction development plans in the Yasuni National Park on Monday. The Yasuni National Park is inhabited by the Tagaeri and Taromenani, who live in voluntary […]
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By Evelyn Bombley
23 Aug 2023
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Animals & Wildlife Forest & Biodiversity Premium Stories
Rescuing and Rehabilitating Reptiles 
When it comes to conservation, the two most important things are ‘Rescuing’ and ‘Rehabilitating’. And this story is all about Rescuing and Rehabilitating Reptiles  In India, around 90% of snake bites are caused by the ‘big four’ among the crawlers – Common Krait, Indian Cobra, Russell’s Viper and Saw Scaled Viper. (*Source WHO) When it […]
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By Bhadra Mahapatra
28 Jun 2023
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Animals & Wildlife Climate Change Forest & Biodiversity
Explained: What caused the Canada wildfire?
The people of Canada and the U.S were caught in an apocalyptic scenario, where the sky was covered in layers of thick smog, blue skies all around the region turning pale yellow, with skyscrapers camouflaging the smoke. Wildfires were reported from British Columbia and Alberta in the West, and the Northwest Territories and Yukon in […]
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By Bhadra Mahapatra
09 Jun 2023
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Animals & Wildlife Climate Change Highlights
Replenishing the depleting biodiversity 
Climate change has emerged as a key factor in the global decline of biodiversity, adversely affecting marine, terrestrial, and freshwater ecosystems. The consequences include the loss of local species, increased prevalence of diseases, and alarming rates of plant and animal mortality, leading to the emergence of climate-driven extinctions. According to the 2022 State of the […]
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By Bhadra Mahapatra
19 May 2023
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Animals & Wildlife Climate Change Forest & Biodiversity
Trekking through the Great Himalayas
According to a World Wildlife Foundation report, the Arctic is warming twice as fast as anywhere on earth, and the sea ice is declining by more than 10% every 10 years. The snow sheets in the Poles are melting, and this is affecting the hibernation pattern of animals like brown bears, says Debasish Banerjee, a […]
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By Bhadra Mahapatra
17 Apr 2023
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Animals & Wildlife Forest & Biodiversity Highlights
The Protectors of Hargila
Meet Purnima Devi Barman, an UN award winning wildlife biologist from Assam, who has been working for the last 20 years towards creating awareness and protecting the Greater Adjutant Stork also called as ‘Hargila’ in local language. She has built an all-women army, the Hargila Baideos (Stork Sisters) and mobilised an entire community to save […]
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By Bhadra Mahapatra
10 Apr 2023
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Animals & Wildlife Forest & Biodiversity Highlights
Restoring Degraded Lands In India’s Western Ghats
The Western Ghats is one of the eight hotspots of biological diversity in the world and is spread across six states—Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. In the last six decades, the forest cover in the Western Ghats has been severely fragmented due to human activities. Meera Chandran, co-founder of Forest First Samithi, […]
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By Danish Alam
07 Apr 2023
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Animals & Wildlife Highlights Plastic Pollution
Plastic pollution cause of new disease in birds
Plastic has become more of a bane than boon over the decades. It has been one of the major contributors when it comes to choking the planet. Now it has also become a major concern for the avian species as according to a new research it was found wild birds have been consuming an inordinate […]
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By Bhadra Mahapatra
16 Mar 2023
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Animals & Wildlife Climate Change Forest & Biodiversity
Learning from the wild
In this episode of Eco Lens, we look at the vast trench of wildlife and how it has been changing over these years, through the eyes of National award-winning filmmaker Akanksha Sood Singh. We get a glimpse into her life, work and key learnings from her craft. ‘So, somewhere down the line, I saw the […]
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By LMB Staff
23 Feb 2023
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Animals & Wildlife Forest & Biodiversity Highlights
Argentina Leads By Example On World Wetlands Day 2023
The province of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina recently passed a law to protect an ecosystem thrice the size of London, and became the cause of celebration for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on World Wetlands Day 2023 on February 2. This day commemorates the signing of the Ramsar Convention. The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands […]
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By Danish Alam
02 Feb 2023
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#WeForNature Animals & Wildlife Climate Change
Why California’s floods won’t break its droughts 
United States President Joe Biden on Sunday declared a major disaster in California as a succession of storm systems blew into the state bringing heavy flooding to already waterlogged regions and threatening snowfalls of up to six feet. The continuous floods for the last 11 days bring back to memory the devastating floods of 1997. […]
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By LMB Staff
16 Jan 2023
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#WeForNature Air Pollution Animals & Wildlife
The year of climate storytelling
Climate Change looks like small words but the impact it has on the planet is unmissable. In 2022, we saw the worst of wildfires and flash floods, landslides and heatwaves. We heard people asking “What can I do about climate change?” Let Me Breathe told you what we can do together. The need to act […]
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By Smitha Verma
28 Dec 2022
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#WeForNature Animals & Wildlife Climate Change
Nepal’s fight for biodiversity
Terai Arc Landscape is an 810km stretch spread across India and Nepal. Nepal’s forests occupy roughly 45% of the land, with the forests of Terai serving as a source of livelihood for people.“Forests provide not only the timber we use but also other ecological services. They also help to build the resilience of the particular […]
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By LMB Staff
21 Dec 2022
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#WeForNature Agriculture Air Pollution
COP15 puts “nature” first in a historic deal
On December 19, the biggest biodiversity conference COP15 came to a historic conclusion.  In a landmark decision aimed at safeguarding biodiversity, nations have agreed to protect a third of the planet for nature by 2030. The most significant part of the agreement is a commitment to protect 30% of land and water considered important for […]
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By LMB Staff
20 Dec 2022
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#WeForNature Animals & Wildlife Climate Change
Assam: Endless loop of floods and devastation
North-east India witnessed unusually heavy rainfall since May, resulting in one of the worst floods ever recorded in Assam. The unseasonal floods have caused mass destruction to the villages, crops, and houses of the local communities. LetMeBreathe brings you the stories of those hit by the devastating floods in Assam and why it is important […]
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By Pritam Das
17 Nov 2022
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#WeForNature Animals & Wildlife Impact
This teen became the voice of an African elephant’s freedom
She was sixteen when started a petition on Change.org to free an African elephant living in the Delhi zoo. Meet student and activist Nikita Dhawan, who has become the voice of a lonely African elephant in Delhi’s zoo. According to the petition, the elephant – Shankar – has been living in isolation for over 16 […]
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By LMB Staff
11 Aug 2022
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Agriculture Animals & Wildlife Climate Change
Know your plant-based meat
As people get wealthier, they are consuming more and more meat. Animal agriculture is responsible for 14 percent to 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions more than the entire transportation sector.  In fact, if one was to feed a chicken nine calories of food one would only get back one calorie by way of meat. […]
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By Sahil Sharma
03 May 2022
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Documenting India’s Shrinking Elephant Habitats
A rapid growth in development and the human population has created an anthropogenic pressure within and around elephant habitats in India. It has led to the loss of their traditional corridors of movement. Senthil Kumaran, a documentary photographer and Filmmaker, has been documenting human-animal conflict straight from the fields for over a decade.  In India, […]
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By Nikita Bishnoi
28 Apr 2022
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Animals & Wildlife Climate Change Written Stories
Bird Population Shrinking due to Climate Change
As climate changes and gets warmer, birds are shrinking and their wingspans are growing, according to a new study. The new study examined four decades of data on bird species and found that as the Amazon’s dry season has gotten hotter and more arid, some species appear to be changing physically. According to a report […]
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By LMB Staff
27 Apr 2022
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#WeForNature Animals & Wildlife Premium Stories
The original tree huggers
The Bishnoi community has been called the original tree huggers as they have been working to protect trees and wildlife even before the Wildlife Protection Act 1972 came into being. The word ‘Bishnoi’ comes from two words- ‘Bish’ and ‘Noi’ which means 20 and 9 respectively. The community adheres to 29 commandments set by the […]
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By Nikita Bishnoi
27 Apr 2022
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#WeForNature Animals & Wildlife Building A Clean Future
Investing in our planet —let us start with forests
Last week, a friend told me that Josh Apps – India’s Tiktok – had raised $800 million. Turns out that the parent company of Josh Apps, which also owns a news aggregator site, had raised about ₹ 6000 crores from venerable investors like the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board. Clearly, mainstream, seasoned and prudent institutional […]
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By Mridula Ramesh
22 Apr 2022
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#WeForNature Animals & Wildlife
Here are the most relevant steps taken by the government to protect the Great Indian Bustard (GIB)
The Government of India has taken eight key steps for the protection of the Great Indian Bustards (GIBs) in the country, including details of captive breeding facilities, said a press release by the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change on March 14. The information was shared by Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State, Ministry […]
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By Sahil Sharma
22 Mar 2022
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Animals & Wildlife
Animal welfare on its pages, Elle magazine to stop using fur in editorial and advertising content worldwide
International fashion magazine, ELLE, has made the historic decision to ban fur from the pages of all its international editions.  According to a Reuters report on Thursday, the publication has taken this decision as part of their move to support animal welfare and reflect changing tastes. Thirteen editions have already implemented the charter, while a […]
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By LMB Staff
03 Dec 2021
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Animals & Wildlife
The Last Hope: Why two filmmakers chose to document frogs
Why would a filmmaker choose to use his lens to document ‘frogs’? Maybe to tell the onlooker that frogs are killed to be eaten or could be just another attempt to emphasise on the need to conserve frogs.  However, for the two filmmakers documenting frogs, the urge was to protect the environment from the haphazard […]
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By Nikita Bishnoi
27 Nov 2021
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Animals & Wildlife
On World Animal Day, these endangered species are getting some green cover
Find out how this social organisation is planting thousands of trees to expand the habitats of hanguls, sloth bears, and giant squirrels World Animal Day is observed on October 4 each year, to reflect upon the basic status of animals and to improve the welfare standards. This is also an appropriate time to contemplate the […]
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By Grow Trees
04 Oct 2021
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Animals & Wildlife
Deforestation- The Irreversible Damage
What do the Western Ghats, the Himalayan ranges, and India’s greenest region, the Northeast,  have in common? They would all be gone in the next few years if the appropriate measures are not taken.  India is home to a diverse range of biomes, and it is one of the 17 mega-diverse countries,  having 8% of […]
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By Akshita Saxena
30 Jul 2021