Of the 650 cities and towns located along polluted river stretches in the country, Maharashtra has 161 or 25% — the highest in India — according to the Union environment ministry. In a written stateme ...More

Nagpur: Nagpur has once again garnered the dubious distinction of being into the list of cities that are most polluted in Maharashtra. Nagpur has been tagged among the cities in India which are locate ...More

Agriculture could be harmed by more frequent and prolonged droughts in some areas Weather extremes caused by climate change could raise the risk of food shortage globally, a study that looked at data ...More

PARIS: Even if humanity stops global warming in its tracks at two degrees Celsius, long seen as the guardrail for a climate-safe world, Arctic sea ice will still disappear in some years, scientists ha ...More

Food insecurity risks could increase with weather extremes caused by climate change, suggests a study. Researchers at University of Exeter examined how climate change could affect the vulnerability o ...More

Examining how climate change could raise food insecurity risk across the world, researchers have projected that the flow of the Ganges river could more than double at 2 degrees Celsius global warming, ...More

From 2014 to 2016, seven major towns and cities around Mumbai, majorly home to industries, had the highest concentration of two harmful air pollutants -- sulphur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen dioxide (NO ...More

Warns that weather extremes can inter alia increase vulnerability to food insecurity India is among the countries which are at the greatest risk of food insecurity due to weather extremes caused by c ...More

Marine debris has become a threat to the CNMI’s overall beauty and the animals that have made the Commonwealth and its beaches their home. According to the Micronesian Islands Nature Alliance executi ...More

London: A group of researchers led by UK's University of Exeter concluded during their study that India is one of the countries facing the greatest risk of food insecurity due to climate change. Publ ...More

According to a new research, weather extremes caused by climate change could trigger the risk of food shortages in many countries. The study conducted by the University of Exeter, examined how climat ...More

Climate change affects women the most. This premise is explained in the report " Climate Change and Health " prepared by the Observatory of Health and Environment of the DKV Institute of Healthy Livin ...More

Calcutta: A lone Spoon-billed Sandpiper, one of the world's critically endangered species with a population of barely 450 birds worldwide, was recorded at Frazergunj in South 24-Paraganas on Sunday. ...More

Weather extremes caused by climate change could raise the risk of food shortage globally, a study that looked at data from 122 countries suggests. Researchers led by the University of Exeter in the U ...More

Because of global warming, "Mexican glaciers will have no way of surviving," said Hugo Delgado, director of the Geophysics Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), quoted by R ...More

Biodiversity is declining in every region of the world, impacting nature’s capacity to provide food, water, and safety to people, four UN-backed science reports have warned. The analysis from the Int ...More

Forest Department is supplying water to thirsty wild animals in the interiors of Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary With the drying up of water sources in the scorching summer, instances of wild animals stra ...More

In Paris, the Eiffel Tower went dark. In London, a kaleidoscope of famous sites switched off their lights — Tower Bridge, Big Ben, Piccadilly Circus, the London Eye. That scene was repeated over and ...More

To promote action on recycling, recycling associations across the globe are observing the first Global Recycling Day. According to the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) - oldest and largest glo ...More

THE ENVIRONMENT Ministry has asked major infrastructure agencies, including the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), to implement measures for dust mitigation by March 31 or face suspension of ...More