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5 days ago | 
downtoearth.org.in | Rajat Ghai
Nepal is home to nearly 400 snow leopards (Panthera uncial) as per its national estimate, the findings of which were released recently, a statement by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) stated. There are 397 snow leopards in Nepal, with a mean density of 1.56 individuals per 100 square kilometre, according to the survey, which compiled data from seven study regions.
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5 days ago | 
downtoearth.org.in | Rajat Ghai
Wolverines (Gulo gulo), the mustelid carnivore of the world’s boreal forests, are making a comeback in southern Finland after having been wiped out from there due to hunting, a new study has found. Researchers at Aalto University in Finland combined snow track counts of wolverines with national forest inventory data based on satellite images and field measurements.
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5 days ago | 
downtoearth.org.in | Rajat Ghai
Climate change and habitat changes are making the Lesser Goldfinch, a songbird traditionally found in the southwestern United States to shift to the country’s cooler Pacific Northwest, researchers have found. The bird has declined in the southern parts of its range (the US Southwest) and is moving northwards making use of rivers.
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5 days ago | 
htsyndication.com | Rajat Ghai
New Delhi, April 23 -- Wolverines (Gulo gulo), the mustelid carnivore of the world's boreal forests, are making a comeback in southern Finland after having been wiped out from there due to hunting, a new study has found. Researchers at Aalto University in Finland combined snow track counts of wolverines with national forest inventory data based on satellite images and field measurements.
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5 days ago | 
htsyndication.com | Rajat Ghai
New Delhi, April 23 -- Climate change and habitat changes are making the Lesser Goldfinch, a songbird traditionally found in the southwestern United States to shift to the country's cooler Pacific Northwest, researchers have found. The bird has declined in the southern parts of its range (the US Southwest) and is moving northwards making use of rivers.
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6 days ago | 
downtoearth.org.in | Rajat Ghai
People walking along the beach in Hadera, near the power stationHadera in northern Israel, where a diver went missing after being attacked by a shark on April 21, 2025, in full view on horrified beachgoers, is a human-altered landscape, one where human activity may have been attracting sharks in large numbers, according to scientists. The location of the attack is where the Hadera stream enters the Mediterranean Sea. It is also the site of the Israel Electric Company’s Orot Rabin power plant.
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6 days ago | 
downtoearth.org.in | Rajat Ghai
Mariluz Canaquiri Murayari, a community organizer, and Indigenous Kukama leader from the Peruvian Amazon, has won this year’s prestigious Goldman Prize for her work to secure legal recognition of the Maranon river’s rights. Murayari was nominated for the award by International Rivers, a global organisation with 40 years of work and regional offices in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
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1 week ago | 
downtoearth.org.in | Rajat Ghai
A three-year-long prolonged drought may have led to a chain of events that ultimately culminated in the Romans leaving their province of Britannia (Britain today) for good, a new study by the University of Cambridge has suggested. ‘Barbarian’ tribes like the Picts, Scotti and Saxons took advantage of the severe summer droughts in 364, 365 and 366 CE to simultaneously attack the Roman province in 367 CE, in what historians call the ‘Barbarian Conspiracy’.
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1 week ago | 
downtoearth.org.in | Rajat Ghai
Pope Francis I, the leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics, has died. The 88-year-old head of Christianity’s largest denomination, who had been in poor health of late, passed away in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, where he had been undergoing treatment for the past few weeks. The 266th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church was born in 1936 in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, into a family of northern Italian origin. Jorge Mario Bergoglio first worked as a bouncer and janitor.
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1 week ago | 
downtoearth.org.in | Rajat Ghai
All three major river basins of the Indian Subcontinent are experiencing some of their largest declines in ‘snow persistence’ — the fraction of time snow is on the ground after snowfall. The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), of which these basins are a part, itself has experienced its third consecutive below-normal snow year in 2025, a new report released by Kathmandu-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) on April 21, 2025, noted.
