Only 27 species spotted at city wetlands this year, climate change too blamed The capital, which is a stopover for thousands of migratory birds, has been seeing a sharp decline in their numbers each ...More

The Corbett Tiger Reserve has failed to set up a Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF) according to a directive issued by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) seven years ago. Out of 48 t ...More

The horror of Nepal’s devastating earthquake had barely receded when we saw extreme weather events in India. These have been on the rise, but never before had they been so explicitly linked to climate ...More

New Delhi: To avoid getting flooded like Chennai in a changing climate, Delhi will need to integrate its human settlements with small and large biodiversity habitats such as wetlands, scrub forests an ...More

The central government is considering ways to dispose of toxic waste lying at the defunct Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, union Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Sunday. "We are working t ...More

UNITED NATIONS: When international negotiators reached a first¬of¬its kind climate change agreement in Paris this month, the United Nations' normally low¬key leader, Ban Ki¬moon, celebrated onstage, a ...More

Climate change: Up to a quarter of the permafrost that lies just under the ground surface in Alaska could thaw by the end of the century, according to a new study. Using statistically modeled maps dr ...More

NEW DELHI: After reviving its endangered tiger population, India is now helping three of its Southeast Asian neighbours with tiger conservation. India may relocate some of its tigers to Cambodia, Thai ...More

CHENNAI: India's commitment to control emission of poisonous gases at the recent climate change conference in Paris has come at a time when many of its thermal power plants are ageing considerably, ag ...More

KOLKATA: A last-minute decision by the Union government to change the funding pattern of Project Tiger could send conservation programmes haywire across the country. Bengal, for instance, is suddenl ...More

CHENNAI: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to promulgate an ordinance to ensure conduct of jallikattu during the upcoming Pongal season, as passing a bill to amend ...More

Predicting global temperatures Climate change over the last 150 years may estimate future global temperatures, a NASA study has found. According to the study to quantify climate change, researchers ...More

With the quantum of plastic waste mounting across urban India and civic bodies showing sluggishness to manage the menace, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has issued fresh directions asking civi ...More

As the contours of the Paris agreement unravel, Magsasay award-winning water conservationist Rajendra Singh has accused the Centre of bartering adaptation for its right to use high emission-intensive ...More

Energy sector contributes for nearly 60 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, followed by electricity, industry, agriculture and other sectors, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said today. ...More

Environment minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday informed Parliament that the extreme rainfall that occurred in Tamil Nadu was “highly localised” and part of the natural variability of the Indian mons ...More

The government has described the extreme rainfall that occurred across Tamil Nadu in October, November as a "highly localised" event which was unrelated to global warming. "Extreme rainfall that occu ...More

At the United Nations climate conference in Paris, courageous and visionary leaders recognized that people rarely change the world when they work within the constraints of what they think is possible. ...More

If there was one overarching imprint on the Paris climate change negotiations, it was of the diplomatic heft that the US enjoys. The last hours of the talks, when the US was faced with the challenge o ...More

NEW DELHI: Days after the Chennai floods caught global attention during the just concluded Paris conference where world leaders linked such extreme weather conditions to climate change, the government ...More