NEW DELHI: National Green Tribunal has directed the ministry of environment, forest and climate change and the forest department of Haryana to conduct a tree survey and create a database of trees and ...More

PANAJI: Another mining season may end without seeing any mining activity in the state, as the state pollution control board requires at least three months to give mining companies consent to operate ...More

NEW DELHI: Ministers from the 17 major emitters, including Indian environment minister Prakash Javadekar, are meeting in Washington DC on Sunday and Monday to address some contentious issues and find ...More

KOZHIKODE: The annual bird survey carried out at Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WWS) has recorded the presence of 175 species, reaffirming its status as a critical habitat for endemic and endangered bird ...More

VISAKHAPATNAM: As enforcing a total ban on fishing or compelling all fishermen to use Turtle Excluder Devices (TED) in their nets is not possible, there is a need to look for an alternative approach t ...More

The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has proposed to set up long-term permanent monitoring plots in Sunderbans, a world heritage site, having maximum mangrove cover in the world to study the impacts ...More

The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has proposed to set up long-term permanent monitoring plots in Sunderbans, a world heritage site, having maximum mangrove cover in the world to study the impacts ...More

GUWAHATI: The Kaziranga National Park, a World Heritage Site about 250 km from here, lost another rhino to poachers on Friday. Poachers killed a female rhino in the Bherberi area under the park's ...More

The Government has launched the School Nursery Yojana, an initiative to bring students closer to nature, by involving them in raising of saplings in nurseries created in schools. The underlying theme ...More

BHOPAL: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) offer for a comprehensive assessment of depth and spread of contaminants in and around Union Carbide factory has been red-flagged by Union governmen ...More

NEW DELHI: Centre for Wildlife and Environmental Litigation, an NGO, has approached NGT over large- scale methane emissions from the three landfill sites in the capital. On Friday, NGT directed th ...More

The Government of Norway has said that it is aiming for a 40 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2030. In December 2015, a new global climate agreement is to be concluded at the ...More

Seoul declared the Global Earth Hour Capital, 2015 An 11-member international jury has declared Thane the National Earth Hour Capital with the city emerging the winner from India in the Earth Hour Ci ...More

Japan will promise to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent from 2013 levels ahead of a global summit on climate change this year, a report said today, despite uncertainty over post-Fukushi ...More

It's a first and necessary step, they say, in accessing the tens of billions of dollars it will cost to provide cleaner cookers worldwide for some 2.8 billion people still using firewood, kerosene or ...More

LONDON: Anaesthetic gases may help doctors to cause temporary loss of sensation in patients and carry out surgery smoothly, but by accumulating in the Earth's atmosphere, they also contribute to clima ...More

The first monsoon forecast is two weeks away, but Indian weather scientists are watching with some concern a developing ocean-atmospheric condition in the Pacific near the equator — El Nino. El Nino, ...More

Following the launch of the national air quality index by the Prime Minister on Monday, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has been directed by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) ...More

Prime Minister Modi raised the matter first at the United Nations last year, then when US President Obama visited India, and a third time on Monday this week at the state environment ministers' meetin ...More

Anaesthetic gases used to carry out smooth surgeries are accumulating in the Earth's atmosphere, where they are contributing to climate change, a new study has warned. Over the past decade, concen ...More