The United States is keen to work with India to help international community reach a landmark agreement to deal with climate change when the United Nations will hold a conference on the issue in Paris ...More

US secretary of state John Kerry laid the groundwork for President Barak Obama’s visit to India in two weeks, listing cooperation on investment, civil nuclear energy, climate change and anti-terrorism ...More

The 9th Kirloskar Vasundhara International Film Festival is back with its message to preserve the environment. The 9th Kirloskar Vasundhara International Film Festival aims to present topical films ...More

Holds discussions with PM Modi to take relations to next level GANDHINAGAR, JAN 12: Interacting with the media here at Mahatma Mandir on the second day of the seventh edition of Vibrant Gujarat Gl ...More

GANDHINAGAR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today discussed issues relating to climate change, environment and clean energy with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. During the meeting, held on the sid ...More

GANDHINAGAR: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today asked India to set an ambitious target to cut down carbon emissions, saying it is in a unique position to lead sustainability, energy ef ...More

As the environment versus development debate continued to torment policy makers in 2014, the new government initiated the process of rewriting the rules of environmental governance in a bid to bring m ...More

GUWAHATI, Jan 9 – A group of environment lawyers and environmentalists, headed by advocate Ritwick Dutta, environmentalist Himansu Thakkar and Manoj Mishra, has described the report of the High Level ...More

As the environment versus development debate continued to torment policy makers in 2014, the new government initiated the process of rewriting the rules of environmental governance in a bid to bring m ...More

GURGAON: Noting that sustainable development practices are necessary to reduce effects of climate change, Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar on Friday said the government is mulling to creat ...More

Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today said there should not be any fear among tribals of losing their forest rights and indicated that there might not be any dilution of the Forest Rights Act. ...More

BENGALURU: Droughts occur more or less at regular fixed intervals called stationarity, according to available data. But a recent study by Prof Pradeep Mujumdar of Indian Institute of Science’s (IISc) ...More

PANAJI: After renewing 29 mining leases in the state, the Goa government on Wednesday asked the ministry of environment, forests and climate change (MoEF) to grant the leases environment clearances as ...More

Guwahati, Jan. 7: Experts have hailed the decision of the ministry of environment, forests and climate change not to construct new roads in the protected areas of the country. The directive was signe ...More

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chairman RK Pachauri laments that policy directives to implement Narendra Modi's "no-effect" guideline are yet to be prepared, as he called on India to ...More

The Middle East must leave 40 per cent of its oil reserves in the ground, and China, the US and Russia most of their coal if global warming is to be curbed, researchers said today. Globally, a t ...More

BANGALORE: Inspectors authorised by the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI), which operates under the Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (MoEFCC), filed 27 non-cognizable offence compl ...More

Union minister of state (independent charge) for environment, forests and climate change Prakash Javadekar revealed that he has cleared 850 projects in the last seven months, with 100 of them pertaini ...More

New Delhi: Soon after the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government assumed power in May, industry lobby group Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) handed the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) a l ...More

India is the world’s fourth largest consumer of petroleum oil at 222 million tonnes (during 2013-14) and it imports nearly 80-85 per cent of oil it consumes, which accounts for about 35 per cent of ...More