There will be more "losers" than "winners" over the next century as the Antarctic seafloor warms, says a study of the marine invertebrates living in the seas around Antarctica. The findings, publishe ...More

India discarded approximately 18 lakh metric tonnes of e-waste in 2016 which is about 12 per cent to the global e-waste production. India is the fifth largest producer of e-waste in the world and recy ...More

Environment Minister Urges State Governments to Initate Necessary Action to Manage Air Pollution Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Dr. Harsh Vardhan has called upon State Gov ...More

These new results are published this week (31 August) in the journal Current Biology, and enable researchers to better understand the biological implications of the future ocean warming predicted by t ...More

A series of volcanic eruptions in the Antarctica coincided with increased deglaciation and rise in global greenhouse gas concentrations about 17,700 years ago, says a study. "Detailed chemical measur ...More

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) will remove the Snow Leopard from its list of endangered species, the widely cited Red List. An updated version of the Red List, that is consi ...More

WASHINGTON: A series of volcanic eruptions in Antarctica over a period of 192 years may have accelerated the deglaciation event and onset of the most rapid, widespread climate change in the Southern ...More

New Delhi: Ancient relatives of horses and rhinoceroses, Tapirs are largest land mammals in Central America have been classified as endangered or vulnerable and thirteen of these pig-like animals wit ...More

Encroachment, climate change have put them at grave risk Thirteen tapirs lounge in the bushes of Ticuantepe Zoo, in eastern Nicaragua, their bellies plump with leaves and fruit — blissfully unaware o ...More

By 2020 India's e-waste from old mobiles and computers will rise by about 1800 per cent and 500 per cent respectively by 2020 as compared to the levels in the year 2007, according to an ASSOCHAM-KPM ...More

The State Forest Department will carry out a comprehensive survey of migratory birds visiting the State. The survey would be completed by March 2018, officials informed. The survey would be carried ...More

THANE: Eminent water activist Rajendra Singh has urged the Centre to take up cleaning of rivers on a priority basis and emphasised on the need to educate the present generation about the importance of ...More

Imphal, September 03 2017: Division Bench High Court of Manipur has passed an interim order for total ban on cutting down of trees from reserved forest areas as well as excavation of hills for any pur ...More

The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) has planned to install eight temporary air and noise monitoring units across the city during the Diwali week with a view to track pollutants that risk ...More

THANE: Eminent water activist Rajendra Singh has urged the Centre to take up cleaning of rivers on a priority basis and emphasised on the need to educate the present generation about the importance of ...More

Thane: Eminent water activist Rajendra Singh has urged the Centre to take up cleaning of rivers on a priority basis and emphasised on the need to educate the present generation about the importance of ...More

New Delhi: The discourse on climate change and global warming has taken over a larger domain in the last few years and its rapidly growing effects have raised questions on Earth's habitability in the ...More

CHENNAI: As many as 10 lakh lives and 144 sq km of land in Chennai would be in danger if the sea level rises by a metre by 2050, according to a study, which pegs the loss due to such a development at ...More

Sydney: An increase of just 1-2 degrees Celsius in shallow waters on the West Antarctic Peninsula has radically reduced marine diversity, a new study revealed on Friday. Researchers from the British ...More

The snow leopard or Panthera uncia might soon be downlisted from ‘endangered’ to ‘vulnerable’ in the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), signifying it is under less ...More