In May 2015, the ministry of environment, forests and climate change pro posed rules to curb air pollution from coal-fired power plants. At first glance, the draft notification may seem like a breath ...More

BHUBANESWAR: More than 70,000 hectare (ha) in Khurda and Cuttack districts have been proposed to be brought under the Eco-Sensitive Zone (ESZ) of Chandaka-Dampara Wildlife Sanctuary which abuts the Ca ...More

WASHINGTON: Failure to act on climate change could cause an estimated 57,000 deaths a year in the United States from poor air quality by 2100, the Obama administration argued in a report released Mo ...More

PARIS: Paris is in the midst of a "perfect storm," that's how Pierre-Henri Guignard, secretary general, UN climate change conference or the Conference of Parties (COP 21) describes this year. While pr ...More

PARIS: The blue, clear skies this summer in Paris hardly indicate it has an air pollution problem. But the top agenda for the Paris municipality— Marie De Paris—is dealing with tiny, respirable pollut ...More

Involvement of international wildlife smuggling ring suspected The Eluru police in Andhra Pradesh nabbed three persons for allegedly transporting two caged baby orangutans in a car last Wednesday. ...More

Contrary to popular assumptions, global warming may not lead to substantial reduction in winter deaths, a study says. Warming climate trend has led to reductions in cold-related mortality than some e ...More

Climate change due to global warming won’t bring down the number of winter deaths, scientists have claimed. Professor Patrick Kinney of Columbia University who led the study that contradicts the rece ...More

NEW DELHI: Union Minister Y S Chowdary today batted for a contingency plan to deal with the problem of climate change and also ensuring economic sutainability while addressing the issue. "The mill ...More

VATICAN CITY/ LONDON: Pope Francis blamed the rich and powerful for placing the planet in unprecedented danger as he demanded urgent and concerted global action against climate change. The Earth is r ...More

NEW DELHI ; Union Minister Y S Chowdary today batted for a contigency plan to deal with the problem of climate change and also ensuring economic sutainability while addressing the issue. "The mill ...More

US President Barack Obama has welcomed Pope Francis' plea for bold action on global climate change and his open embrace of the view that humans are largely to blame for the crisis. "As Pope Francis ...More

New Delhi: Will the Asiatic lion remain restricted to Gujarat’s Gir forest? Looks like that may be the case as the ministry of environment, forests and climate change (MoEFCC) has decided to file an a ...More

Pope Francis has called for action on climate change, blaming human selfishness for global warming in his encyclical. According to BBC, Pope Francis urged the rich in his letter to change their lif ...More

Birds are a great indicator of the environment. Just observing them and recording their behaviour can go a long way in understanding global climate change If they (the birds) are in trouble, we know ...More

The year 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the UN. It is also the year when countries will come together to adopt the next generation of goals for our people and their only home — planet Earth. 2015 ...More

By now, the danger from climate change and other forms of environmental degradation is so evident that it seems crazy to ignore it. And yet, the world has failed thus far to devise an adequate respons ...More

BARCELONA: Urgent plans to help the world's poorest people become more resilient to extreme weather and rising seas are on hold because of a lack of cash in a U.N. climate fund set up for least develo ...More

A new study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B , by National Centre for Biological Sciences on high elevation songbirds of Western Ghats, has found that deep valleys have greater imp ...More

The land has been cooling and the ocean warming and the monsoon has shown a decreasing trend during the past century. The summer monsoon has been showing a weakening trend over the past century with ...More