Asia’s mountain glaciers, which are home to the largest store of frozen water after the poles and feed many great rivers including the Ganga, will lose at least a third of their mass by the end of t ...More

LONDON: Asian glaciers are set to shrink by at least a third by 2100 due to climate change, researchers said on Thursday, threatening millions who depend on their meltwaters for drinking, farming and ...More

The bristlecone pine tree, famous for its wind-beaten, gnarly limbs and having the longest lifespan on Earth, is losing a race to the top of mountains throughout the Western United States, putting fut ...More

New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) The highly elusive snow leopard, also found in India’s alpine and high-altitude regions of the Himalayas, got a new global protection and conservation status on Thursday that ...More

The highly elusive snow leopard, also found in India's alpine and high-altitude regions of the Himalayas, got a new global protection and conservation status on Thursday that found favour internationa ...More

Indian scientists have re-discovered a rare snake in Uttarakhand which could unveil the evolutionary link between India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. Himalayan Worm Snake (Trachischiumlaeve) was spotted at ...More

Asia’s mountain glaciers will lose at least a third of their mass through global warming by century’s end, with dire consequences for millions of people who rely on them for fresh water, researchers s ...More

Climate change, if left unaddressed, is expected to increase air pollution-related deaths by nearly 60,000 in 2030 and 2,60,000 in 2100 globally, a study has claimed. According to the study, hotter t ...More

BERLIN: Scientists say one-third of the ice stored in Asia's glaciers will be lost by the end of the century even if the world manages to meet its ambitious goal of keeping global warming below 1.5 de ...More

Indian scientists have re-discovered a rare snake in Uttarakhand which could unveil the evolutionary link between India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. Himalayan Worm Snake (Trachischiumlaeve) was spotted at ...More

GURUGRAM: A proposal by Municipal Corporation of Faridabad (MCF) to set up a landfill site on 92 acres in the eco-sensitive Aravalis has been shot down by the Union environment and forest ministry. Re ...More

Simple tools help measure our vulnerability score The fact that we are vulnerable to climate change and its many manifestations the world over is well known. But just how vulnerable are we? How does ...More

Planting trees is not enough, Siddhanta Das, director general of forests emphasised during at a conference in Delhi, highlighting the problem of degraded soil in India’s forest lands which increases t ...More

Emphasising the need to create an enabling environment through small steps such as planting more trees, Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Dr. Harsh Vardhan has said that new an ...More

CHENNAI: Is Chennai prepared for a storm surge similar to that of Hurricane Irma which lashed the coast of Florida? A study by Tamil Nadu State Land Use Research Board, along with Indo-German Centre ...More

Indians could live about four years longer on an average or more than 4.7 billion life years combined if it complies with the World Health Organization's (WHO) air quality standards, a new study on im ...More

If India reduced its air pollution to comply with the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) air quality standards, its people could live about four years longer on average, the Air Quality-Life Index ...More

The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has strongly opposed a proposal to subsume itself and its flagship Project Tiger scheme under the ambit of an overarching National Wildlife Conservatio ...More

New Delhi: Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Dr. Harsh Vardhan has called upon State Governments of Delhi-NCR region, to initiate all necessary actions on a war footing for ...More

Pheasants and Finches - two of the flagship Himalayan species seem to be reeling under the threat of climate change, states the preliminary findings of survey by Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS). ...More