If there is one promise that Indian politicians use effectively to ensure votes, it is development. While it is a praiseworthy objective, they often fail to reveal to their voters the long-term enviro ...More

DHENKANAL: Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has declared 12,550 hectares of area around Kapilash sanctuary as eco-sensitive zone. It covers nine reserved forests of the district incl ...More

SUVA: India should support Fiji and other Pacific island countries at the climate change talks to be held in Paris later this year, the government-owned Fiji Broadcasting Corporation (FBC) said on Mon ...More

TORONTO: Coral reefs, as they were 50 years ago, will not be found anywhere on Earth by the middle of the century, even if December's Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris is "wildly successful," ...More

KOZHIKODE: A new species of scorpion has been discovered by researchers from the Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary in Idukki district. The new species--Buthoscorpio chinnarensis--is a small-sized scorpio ...More

OSLO: Mountain glaciers in Central Asia have shrunk four times faster than the world average, threatening river flows vital for agriculture and hydro power from Uzbekistan to western China, scientists ...More

Panaji: ICAR-CCARI (Indian council of agricultural research- Central Coastal Agricultural Institute) is a centre for the development of agro-eco tourism and this must be linked to the promotion of org ...More

NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal has issued notices to certain infrastructure agencies that were named by the ministry of environment, forests and climate change (MoEFCC) in its affidavit on Fri ...More

NEW DELHI: Increasing the number of CNG buses, crackdown on polluting vehicles and industries and tree plantation drives are some of the many steps being taken by the Delhi government to curb rising p ...More

Paris: Dominant species spread across the globe are just as vulnerable during a mass extinction event as more fragile ones confined to a single locale, according to a study published on Tuesday. As E ...More

New Delhi: The government plans to create a separate department of transport to deal with issues such as vehicular emissions and safety, said Vijay Chhibber, secretary, ministry of road transport and ...More

Keeping in mind the way climate is affecting our health and the need to create awareness about it, Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad is screening short-films, on the theme of climate change. Titled ‘Cool Stori ...More

The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) will have to carry out new Environment Impact Assessment and Public Hearing as the Environment Clearance (EC) obtained for the Athirappilly project has expire ...More

Mangroves are highly effective in removing greenhouse gases from atmosphere and thus to mitigate global warming and climate change, a marine biologist said here on Tuesday. According to Sujatha Var ...More

Mr. Joshi was of the view that the State was "India’s best-kept secret" with several sectors having great potentials yet to receive the widespread attention they deserved. British Deputy High Commiss ...More

Paris: Only aggressive efforts to rein in global warming coupled with a rethinking of the British countryside will save many native species of butterfly, according to a study published on Monday. “ ...More

SYDNEY: Conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Tuesday announced cuts to Australia's greenhouse gas emissions that were immediately criticised by environmental groups and opposition politicians fo ...More

Yet in another historic attempt to conserve India’s second largest brackish water lake, the Central government has notified an area of two kilometres from north to south all along the western boundary ...More

NEW DELHI: Seeking to bring students closer to nature and inculcate in them a sense of urgency to protect environment, the Union environment and forests ministry on Monday launched the 'School Nursery ...More

SYDNEY: Australia plans to reduce carbon emissions by at least 26 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced Tuesday, but environmentalists said the target fell well short ...More