The estimated cost of measures to limit Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions can be more than offset by reductions in deaths and disease from air pollution, researchers said on Saturday (March 3). ...More

More than 1,50,000 people could die as a result of climate change each year in Europe by the end of the century, shocking new research has found. The number of deaths caused by extreme weather events ...More

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified the Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules 2018. The amended Rules lay down that the phasing out of Multilayered Plastic (MLP) i ...More

The Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change has notified the Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules 2018. The amended Rules lay down that the phasing out of Multilayered Plastic (MLP ...More

From the ice-covered Arctic to the tropical waters of the Pacific, all of Earth’s oceans share one thing in common: plastic pollution. Discarded plastic bags, cups, and bottles make their way into th ...More

Dhemaji: The Arunachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board's recent order to close down scores of hotels, stone crushers and industries operating in the state has brought uncertainty in the lives of ...More

Pollution has taken an incalculable toll on our environment and plastic pollution has turned critical. It is now a global threat as plastic is strewn everywhere, even in the oceans. Tiny particles o ...More

New Delhi : The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has gazetted the draft Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Animal Market Rules that drops the ban on sale of cattle for slaughter imp ...More

Glaciers in Alaska's Denali National Park are melting faster than at any time in the past four centuries because of rising summer temperatures, a new study from the American Geophysical Union reveals. ...More

To make Green India Mission successful, the Government must adopt a reformist approach and integrate its working with the overall developmental perspective of the country Effectiveness of environment ...More

Government is considering a nationwide ban on the use of pet coke by various industries and a decision is likely to be taken within a month, the Supreme Court was informed today. Stating this, the En ...More

Plastic pollution in the oceans is a major problem that is finally getting the attention it deserves, thanks to Blue Planet II. It makes headline news almost every week – and famous figures such as th ...More

Setting up of a Groundwater Mission can help develop an action plan for tackling problems like arsenic and fluoride pollution, storage anomalies and the alarming dwindling of freshwater resources that ...More

New Delhi: Imagine two scenarios. One is a natural forest, nature’s complex multi-layered ecosystem and a landscaped home to 80% of all terrestrial biodiversity where thousands of species of plants, a ...More

Nagpur: Stating that the environment today is more challenging than it ever was, the director of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Girish Sahni has stressed on the need for a multi ...More

New Delhi: Their hunting was portrayed in the miniature paintings of the Mughal era and they were the targets of royal families for centuries for sport, but today the now-endangered blackbuck felled a ...More

Nagpur: Bringing various discrepancies to the fore, environmentalists have trashed the data on the basis of which industries all over the state were given star ratings. The “latest” data, which was re ...More

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the depletion of marine wealth triggering concerns, the Fisheries Department is said to be weighing the possibility of carrying out a species-wise marine catch assessment. Con ...More

India is among the countries which is at the greatest risk of food insecurity due to weather extremes caused by climate change The report that Delhi has just had the warmest March in eight years and ...More

PANAJI: The ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC) has revised the e-waste recovery target for manufacturers, aimed as a measure to curb its dumping in the environment, due to pro ...More