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Saturday, July 19, 2025
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Topic: WWF

Scientists find earliest Milky Way-like galaxy ever. It’s disc shaped & took barely 700 mn yrs to evolve

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

30 days, over 500 volunteers & one mission: to count India’s vulnerable vulture population

Vulture Count, an annual project by WWF-India & Bird Count India, is aimed at monitoring & aiding conservation of vulture populations, which have seen a huge drop since the 1990s.

What is ‘Project Nilgiri Tahr, Tamil Nadu’s multi-pronged initiative to save state animal

The 5-year project has gathered pace with conclusion of a survey that aims to find its population, its habitat, and introduce measures so that the ungulate does not go extinct

‘Global double emergency’: WWF highlights ‘devastating’ loss of biodiversity in new report

‘Living Planet Index’ says populations of wild birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles & fish have fallen by 69% since 1970s. Steepest biodiversity loss in Latin America & Caribbean.

Elections to auctions—lions are Pakistan’s obsession. But without welfare concerns

Lahore Zoo had to cancel a lion auction amid criticism from WWF and animal rights activists. It has put a big question mark on Pakistan’s animal welfare policy.

Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve in TN wins TX2 Award for doubling tiger population

The area of the tiger reserve in Erode, which houses 80 tigers, is contiguous with the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, Bandipur Tiger Reserve and BR Tiger Reserve and Wildlife Sanctuary.

In Sikkim villages, this special ‘chulha’ from Nepal helps reduce firewood use, pollution

Since 2016, World Wildlife Fund for Nature, India, has been helping rural Sikkim households install these cookstoves. It also trains people to make these using locally available materials.

Jaipur, Indore feature in WWF list of 100 cities to face greatest rise in water risks by 2050

The WWF also names 28 other Indian cities, including Kolkata, Mumbai, Lucknow, Chandigarh and Bhopal, that will face an ‘increasing water risk in the next few decades’.

‘Muscular mice’ take off for space, and over 50 polar bears ‘invade’ Russian village for food

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

You eat a credit card’s worth of plastic a week, finds research

People around the world are consuming about 5 grams of microplastic a week, and experts say there's no way to escape it.

On Camera

Fauja Singh’s death shows Indian roads remain a national emergency—474 lives lost every day

Fauja Singh, 114, died after being hit by a speeding car. His death renews questions about India’s deadly roads, rising accidents, and poor traffic discipline.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.