Dr B Sengupta, an environmental scientist and former member secretary of the Central Pollution Control Board on Wednesday enumerated factors that cause pollution in the air and suggested measures to r ...More

During last year, field biologists discovered 176 species of animals from India which are new to science, states Zoological Survey of India. According to official records by ZSI responsible for anima ...More

A day after Union Earth Sciences Minister Harsh Vardhan blamed climate change for the unprecedented heat wave in May and the delay in the onset of the monsoon, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javad ...More

The Environment Ministry has invited eminent sportspersons including star cricketers Sachin Tendulkar, ViratKohliand double Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar to participate in a countrywide sapling plant ...More

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi will start a tree plantation campaign by planting a sapling at his official residence, 7 RCR on June 5, to mark the World Environment Day. Addressing the media h ...More

Over 250 years ago, a British entrepreneur called Richard Arkwright built the first automated textile machine and, in doing so, started the industrial revolution. It was an age built on coal and, over ...More

During last year, field biologists discovered 176 species of animals from India which are new to science, states Zoological Survey of India. According to official records by ZSI responsible for a ...More

Kolkata: During last year, field biologists discovered 176 species of animals from India which are new to science, states Zoological Survey of India. According to official records by ZSI responsible f ...More

“Let us not fool ourselves that there is no connection between the unusual number of deaths from the ongoing heat wave and the certainty of another failed monsoon,” Harsh Vardhan said. “It's not jus ...More

New Delhi: Earth sciences minister Harsh Vardhan has blamed climate change for a heatwave that has killed 2,500 people and for deficient monsoon rains, after the government on Tuesday said the country ...More

The unusual heat wave in May, followed by the delay in the monsoon by a week, is a definite manifestation of climate change, Union Minister for Earth Sciences Harsh Vardhan said on Wednesday. Announc ...More

New Delhi: A newly-described marine dolphin fossil found in Waitaki region of New Zealand has been linked to the endangered Ganges river dolphin, according to research published in Palaeontologia El ...More

Some of the world's biggest companies aren't escalating their sustainable environmental initiatives to save the planet from, unintended but certain, irreversible ruin. They are transforming business p ...More

Water is the most critical ingredient for sustaining life. A global scarcity of this vital resource and extreme climate change could result in increased skirmishes world over. In fact, experts attribu ...More

In 43 years of its history, World Environment Day movement has urged people around the world to save environment, become aware of the threats posed by climate change and take affirmative action. But n ...More

The New York Times’ South Asia correspondent Gardiner Harris’ piece on moving back to the US because of Delhi’s killer air pollution was one of the most widely read pieces on the web over the weekend, ...More

Nagpur: The Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, and National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) have finally submitted a fresh report on wildlife mitigation measures to be taken between Ma ...More

NEW DELHI: Air pollution is the world's biggest environmental health risk, causing at least one in eight deaths around the globe, the World Health Organization has said. The assessment was reached ...More

BONN, Germany: Rising greenhouse gases have boosted rainfall in the Sahel region of Africa, easing droughts that killed 100,000 people in the 1970s and 1980s, in a rare positive effect of climate chan ...More

NEW DELHI: Air pollution is the world's biggest environmental health risk, causing at least one in eight deaths around the globe, the World Health Organization has said. The assessment was reached ...More