Madurai: "When we started snake rescue operations some 20 years ago, we used to get an average 30 rescue calls from public in a day but we hardly get three calls per day at present. Snakes are disappearing at an alarming rate," says R Sagadevan, a sn more....

While less human lives are lost from tiger attacks now, the big cat population is also not declining in the India’s Sundarbans National Park (SNP), the world’s biggest mangrove forest and genepool, say officials of the Forest Department in West Benga more....

BHAWANIPATNA: AS many as 15 rare birds were seized from a bus by forest officials of Kalahandi south division on Monday near Sagada.On a tip-off, the officials intercepted a private bus coming from Thuamul Rampur to Bhawanipatna near Sagada and seize more....

Cartagena (Colombia): India supports a robust population of the endangered snow leopard but its conservation-research data is not shared and doesn’t contribute to the global efforts to conserve the species, whose numbers worldwide are estimated at be more....

A software engineer used a rather ingenious method to evict a tenant from a house in Cottonpet, central Bengaluru. He, along with four others, deployed an owl to scare a Marwadi family into vacating the house they had rented recently. The landlor more....

The Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR) authority has brought 16 sambars from Ranchi’s Bhagwan Birsa Biological Park, popularly known as Birsa Zoo, to increase the prey base for the big cats in Jharkhand’s lone tiger den. However, food, public distribution a more....

BENGALURU: The Central Investigative Department, Forest Wing, arrested a gang of five men for allegedly trying to sell an owl for `2.5 lakh. The arrested are Manmohan, Salman, Basit, Wahid and Mudassir. The main accused Manmohan is a native of Rajast more....

DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand police’s special task force (STF) is making more crackdowns on poaching activities than the forest department even as both agencies are jointly working to check illegal wildlife trade. Additional principal chief conservator more....

France-based ACOEM Group which has recently set up its India subsidiary in Vadodara is eyeing collaborations in defence sector for its patented gun shot detection systems, apart from bringing its noise monitoring technology to industries in the count more....

A meeting of the Committee on Environment of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly was held here today under the Chairmanship of Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami to review policies to mitigate pollution related issues. Legislators Usman Abdul Majid, Syed M more....

Secunderabad: The remedy to the problems of R K Puram Lake lies in stoppage of sewerage water into the lake aver social activists who have been involved in the lake restoration. “Unless a detailed action plan with major focus on first stopping the po more....

The Central Bureau of Investigation is going to probe the role of "corrupt" officials of East Delhi Municipal Corporation who failed to keep a check on toxic industries operational in residential areas which has taken two lives recently. The CBI has more....

KOLHAPUR: The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council's decision to reduce the tax rates on clay idols has given an impetus to celebrate an eco-friendly Ganesh festival this year, as the demand for Ganpati idols made from 'Shadu' clay (natural soil) has more....

New Delhi, August 7: There seems to be a significant difference in the figures given by the government and those recorded by some organisations on the number of tiger deaths due to poaching or natural causes in India. According to the recent data fr more....

Ganesh Chaturthi festivities in the city are poised to get a green, earthy touch this year. Taking the concept of eco-friendly Ganesha to the next level, Hyderabad's green warriors have come up with 'Tree Ganeshas' to minimise pollution of water bodi more....

BHUBANESWAR: The Supreme Court’s landmark order imposing an estimated Rs 25,000 crore penalty on iron ore and manganese miners in Odisha continues to rattle the sector, with serious implications for mining operations across the country and clearances more....

Sainikpuri: ‘Chanda’ will be given to only those pandals that follow eco-friendly measures, those who use clay idols, no loud speakers, minimum usage of electricity, at least one social initiative, and those who resort to appropriate disposal of puja more....

PATNA: Chief minister Nitish Kumar said on Monday the state government has almost achieved its target of 15% green cover in the state by end of 2017. The CM had launched Hariyali Mission in 2011 to increase the green cover in the state. Addressing more....

The B-ward of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has taken a unique initiative to promote eco-friendly Ganesh idols made of paper pulp. The ward office has been identifying artists who can make such eco-friendly idols in mass numbers and corpor more....

Nagpur: Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has corroborated the TOI expose' on Koradi Thermal Power Station (KTPS) air pollution questioning the emission figures and Mahagenco's system of measuring them. It has strongly recommended that KTPS shou more....

Beside the powerful economies and the strong human hold on the world, there is one natural phenomenon named by humans itself, which cannot be ignored and avoided because none has that supreme power, but the geography. Geographical consequences often more....

Every time we talk about air quality in the city, the perennially polluted Anand Vihar or the air monitoring stations at RK Puram and Punjabi Bagh pop up. But what about all the other neighbourhoods in the city and the air quality there? Are these fe more....