In a move which could embarrass the state BJP government, Higher Education minister C.T. Ravi openly criticized the move of his government in opposing the heritage tag for 10 spots in the Western Ghat

A major advantage of being included in the list of Unesco World Heritage Sites is increased funding for research and documentation of these areas. Of the 39 sites in the Western Ghats added to the lis

Putting an end to the confusion among politicians over the status of the Western Ghats, the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has clarified that the declaration of the ghats as a Word Heritage Site by

Cutting across party lines, legislators adopted a resolution on Thursday, requesting UNESCO to drop its decision to confer the world heritage tag on ten hot spots in the Western Ghats. Emotions ran hi

The Western Ghats have been labeled a world heritage site, but scientists from the city-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology have found that biodiversity is not well conserved in the region

A cluster of 39 sites spread over 7,953.15 sq km in the Western Ghats will now be inscribed on the World Heritage list. Unesco status will usher in international attention on the Western Ghats, which

The Western Ghats of India have made it to the UNESCO World Heritage List, finally. The mountain chain was included in the list together with three other natural and four cultural properties, at a mee

India's 1600-km long Western Ghats mountain chain, which has forests older than the Himalaya mountains, has been added to list of world heritage sites by the United Nations.

The Western Ghats mountai

India will be the first country in the world to deepdrill a borehole 7 km deep in order to understand the mechanics of earthquakes faulting in the seismically sensitive Koyna-Warna region in the Weste

We may be looking at climate change and all the resulting hardships, but Bengaluru continues to lose its trees to subways and signal-free corridors while the authorities show little concern for the da