World Sparrow Day: Meet the man who has dedicated his life to conserving sparrows

Rakesh Khatri has created seven lakh nests and trained 14 lakh people for conserving the sparrow, which has grown extinct in the Capital

Delhi world’s most polluted capital city again, India ranks third in worst air quality

Delhi has become the world's most polluted capital city again, according to the World Air Quality Report 2023 by Swiss organisation IQAir

Visitors in for a treat: Male hyena to be introduced at Delhi Zoo soon

Besides the male hyena, the National Zoological Park in Delhi is also set to receive a four-horned antelope in March

Experts hail bird survey, call it need of the hour

Delhi government’s decision to come up with a trimonthly bird atlas will help in conservation and prevention of diseases among human beings, say experts

‘People love breeds, not animals’

Animal activist Manavi Rai, who quit her job to focus on helping animals, says people adopt foreign breeds only to abandon them later; wants people to go for desi breeds

Waste recycling goes digital

A Delhi-based start-up partnered with Wahter, an organisation focussing on packaged water, with the aim to recycle 10 million pet bottles in Delhi-NCR, making big strides towards combating plastic pollution

Delhi records best February air quality in nine years

The national capital also experienced 32.5 mm of rainfall in February this year, the highest in the month since 2013

Smog towers, cloud seeding not sustainable solutions to India’s air pollution crisis: US scientist

Regarding smog towers, the scientist suggests that while they can remove some pollution, they are not effective on a large scale. He compares their impact to trying to dry a river with a bath towel