The enumeration will not be conducted in poll bound or in the snow-bound areas. (Photo: IANS) NEW DELHI: Population enumeration for the 2027 Census will be conducted across most of India from January ...
Horses towing freight scow between Bettles and Nolan, 1913 (Image: USGS Photographic Library) Alaska Koyukuk gold rush history begins in 1898, when about seventy small steamers carried prospectors up ...
Rush, Arkansas, grew from a zinc mining settlement into a community of up to 3,000 residents during the mining boom associated with the First World War. Rising demand for zinc, used in brass for weapo...
In the late 1930s, a small group of guanacos, native South American camelids, was shipped from southern Patagonia to Staats Island, a remote, treeless Falklands island. Only fifteen animals founded th...
The eco-moorings used at Studland Bay are designed to avoid that movement across the seabed (Photo: National Trust via The Guardian) At England’s Studland Bay, damage to seagrass caused by traditional...
People take photos of the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia. (Photo: Reuters) For the first time in the 2060s, deaths are projected to outnumber births in Australia, while annual population grow...
In 1995, the Antiguan racer was perilously close to disappearing from the wild. Just 51 of these rare Caribbean snakes were estimated to survive, all confined to tiny Great Bird Island off the coast o...
A humpback whale breaches off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP photo) Humpback whales are returning in large numbers to Brazil’s coast after being pushed close to extinction by commercial whal...
File photo: Tourists pose in front of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy (Picture credit: AP) Italy’s population is projected to shrink by almost 4 million people by 2050, with a rapidly ageing po...
Conservationists restoring habitat at a historic estate in Northumberland have rediscovered a hidden population of one of England’s rarest insects, finding the species just 10 minutes into a sur...