Even as concern over declining water table and over exploitation of water in Punjab for paddy continues to grow, some farmers in the state are adopting innovative techniques to save water. Avtar Singh, a farmer based in Pandwa village in Phagwara has more....

Linking the intense heatwave and drought to environmental degradation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday made a strong pitch for a mass movement to save forests and conserve "every drop" of water during the upcoming Monsoon season. Modi presses more....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meetings with Chief Ministers of drought affected States for the past couple of weeks was reflected in his Mann Ki Baat address on radio, where he made a strong pitch for a mass movement to save forests and conserve “ev more....

Mumbai, May 22 (PTI) In a noble effort to create awareness among people about ecological conservation, a group of nature enthusiasts today launched an application which will provide information about 250 birds found in the neighbourhood. "We found o more....

The bird enthusiasts have taken the step in order to highlight the rich biodiversity of one the last green zones left on the outskirts of Mumbai. Birding enthusiasts who have been studying and documenting birds of Vasai since 2009, have self-funded more....

HYDERABAD: With severe drought posing a threat to wildlife, the forest department has decided to sink around 20 solar powered borewells in reserve forests in the state. The failure of monsoon for two consecutive years has led to drying up of water bo more....

Conservation of rare and unique species of flora and fauna seems to be challenging for the forest department. While both the state and union governments have launched several programmes and embarked on a mission to safeguard endemic species for the n more....

To curb the increasing number of bat deaths in Indore division, district administration officials and forest department personnel are putting water pots under trees but fear for the worse as the heat wave continues. Deaths of hundreds of birds, bats more....

NEW DELHI: Almost a week after TOI reported that e-retail website Amazon was selling protected wildlife specimen and hunting snares online, the website has finally decided to take down close to 400 items from its offer list. The move came after Wi more....

The pre-monsoon tiger census commenced at Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) on Sunday. According to officials, around 300 field staff in the reserve and 36 students of Wildlife Biology from the Government Arts College, Udhagamandalam, were in the forests more....

DEHRADUN: Wildlife Institute of India (WII) based here has begun a conservation program for the Gangetic Dolphin which is being funded with Rs 23 crore by the Centre. International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) had listed the species as end more....

Chandrapur: Volunteers relished the bumper sighting of tigers and other wildlife in four tiger reserves in Vidarbha as weather held its composure during 24 hour waterhole census held on Buddha Purnima. Other than some hiccups reported at NavegaonNagz more....

Move to lay pucca road through Krishna Wildlife Sanctuary ruffles eco activists : The Krishna Wildlife Sanctuary with the potential to become the world’s first reserve of the Fishing Cat has become a bone of contention. Ironically two government dep more....

VADODARA: As many as three lives were claimed in attacks by Asiatic lions in eastern Gir forests in the last two months, following which 13 lions of a pride roaming in the area were captured and en-caged in accordance with Gujarat government's orders more....

Gir forest officials on Sunday caged three more lions of a pride that is suspected to have preyed on a teenage boy near Ambardi village of Dhari taluka in Amreli district two days ago. With this, all 13 lions of the pride have been caged following de more....

Disposal of solid waste in the Cooumriver continues unabated. Even as a number of solid waste management initiatives along the river are being implemented, the waterway presents a picture of squalor at many places. Last summer, the Chennai Corporati more....

Bijnor: Barred from dumping water into tributaries of the Ganga, paper mills and distilleries in Bijnor district are now dumping effluents into sugarcane fields. Due to a lack of awareness about the harmful effects of waste water on their crop, farme more....

Almost all the markets in Jabalpur remained closed on Saturday in response to a bandh call given by a religious leader, Samarth BhaiyajiMaharaj, to highlight the pollution in the Narmada river. However, the essential services like hospitals and publ more....

Gurgaon: The state pollution control board has decided to issue permission and No Objection Certificates online, making the application process smoother for existing businesses, and for those starting operations. It'll also cut down processing time t more....

The AAP government has imposed an environment compensation penalty of Rs 50,000 per day on 20 major projects, including British School in Chanakyapuri, proposed Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies in Rohini, National Small Industries Corp. Lt more....

Will conducting aerial on pollution levels The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) will be framing guidelines to keep a check on air pollution arising out of hot-mix plants operating across the State, which prepare hot bitumen mix for laying more....

MANGALURU: As many as 35 traffic cops in the city, who are diagnosed with weak lung functioning due to dust pollution, were provided with advanced scientific anti-pollution mask costing Rs 400 each. Anti-Pollution Drive (APD) Foundation, an NGO, h more....

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared Gwalior as the second most polluted city in the world, but the officials at the helm of pollution affairs in Madhya Pradesh dismiss the study as non-representative. The World Health Organization had r more....

Aurangabad: Eight industrial associations in Waluj MIDC have established the Marathwada Environmental Care Cluster (MECC), a special purpose vehicle (SPV), to protect the environment. One of the major aims of the SPV, set up on Saturday, is to pla more....

NEW DELHI: Dairy business provides livelihood to 60 million rural households in India and the country continues to be the largest producer of milk in the world, but global warming could result in adversely impacting the overall output in the coming y more....

BHUBANESWAR: Now event management groups and those hosting programmes in open have to abide by new plastic waste management rule and go in for segregation of the waste. They will also have to pay user fee for generating waste. The Odisha State Pollu more....

Earlier this month, the Delhi government was pulled up by the NGT for ignoring pollution from dust and garbage burning while mostly focussing on vehicular emissions, Independent studies have also stressed on a holistic efforts. Delhiites have been b more....

BAREILLY: In an ongoing research titled 'Great Asian One Horned Rhinoceros dying in Indian Zoos' by a wildlife expert has revealed that 110 rhinos have died in Indian zoos during the period from 1965 to 2015. The research stated that out of these 110 more....

The Government remains committed to cleaning the sacred river which lies at the heart of the Indian civilisation. However, several challenges remain, from improving sewage management to balancing hydropower demands The Indian civilisationemphasises more....

Three more lions were enmeshed by the Forest department today from nearby Ambardi village in Gujarat's Amreli district located near Gir Wildlife Sanctuary, taking the total number of encaged lions to 13 after big cats' attacks recently claimed three more....

The Centre on Sunday announced that a new policy is in the offing to conserve Western Ghats, which is recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. “The Centre will formulate a policy that will conserve the rich biodiversity of the area, at the same more....

NEW DELHI: A stringent law on civil penalties providing for hefty fine and jail term is being framed by the Environment Ministry to deal with offenders of green norms, in sync with its policy of making compliance easy but violations costly. Givin more....

Patna: A painting competition was organised on the occasion of 'International Day for Biological Diversity' by Bihar State Pollution Control Board (BSPCB) at Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park here on Sunday. BSPCB public relations officer Virendra Kum more....

NEW DELHI: Environment ministry is set to frame a stringent law on civil penalties providing for hefty fine and jail term for green norm offenders. This is in sync with its policy of making compliance easy but violations costly. Giving details of more....

Yinnan Zoo authorities confirmed that two of their peacocks have died of shock after some Chinese tourists plucked their feather and picked them up for posing for photographs. Tourists were seen taking pictures with the peacocks at the Yunnan Zoo wh more....

Fifteen endangered loggerhead turtles which were being smuggled out to Bangladesh through Meghalaya's South Garo Hills district, have been seized by BSF. The turtles were found today in a bag left by the smugglers at the side of a road at Dumniko more....

Chennai: Puzhuthivakkam Lake, once an expanse of blue water so clean that one could drink handfuls of cool water straight from its banks, is today a highly polluted 16-acre body with as much effluent as water, near its eponymous neighbourhood west of more....

The National Green Tribunal today came down heavily onDelhi Jal Board (DJB) for submitting "insufficient and vague" response with regard to expenditure on drain-related works and implementation of its 'Maily Se Nirmal Yamuna' Revitalization Plan, 201 more....

NEW DELHI: India has overtaken China's air pollution levels in 2015 and the average particulate matter exposure was higher for the first time in the 21st century, a Greenpeace analysis of NASA satellite data has shown. "For the first time this centur more....