Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In early 1990s, the patent on a painkiller called diclofenac lifted, making it cheap and widely available for India's massive ...

New Delhi — Scientists say Indian farmers' eager uptake of a painkiller for their cattle in the 1990s has led to the inadvertent deaths of half of a million people and massive economic losses — not ...

Vultures often get a bad rap. But these bald-headed scavengers play a vitally important role in their ecosystems, serving as nature’s clean-up crew after other animals die. Now, new research has ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Vultures in the Indian subcontinent dropped from a thriving ...

Johnson traveled to Bikaner, Hyderabad and Bangalore to report this story. This reporting was supported by the Pulitzer Center....more Johnson traveled to Bikaner, Hyderabad and Bangalore to report ...

Fifty years ago, it was not uncommon to sight a vulture in the suburbs of Chennai. As recently as a century ago, they were widespread across Tamil Nadu — in Chennai, Chengalpet, Tanjore, Coimbatore, ...

Over the past several years, Madhya Pradesh has been taking some significant steps towards wildlife conservation, especially ...