Himachal Pradesh has begun an exercise with Central assistance to conserve the rare biodiversity spread over 7,000 sq km in the cold desert of the picturesque Spiti Valley. Sanction has been received ...More

The state government will install solar panels in 100 schools and government-run hospitals across 19 districts in the state. "This is just a beginning. We will soon go all out to make green and ...More

New Delhi: A week before the UN Climate Summit, a group of global leaders drawn from a spread of countries and disciplines on Tuesday presented the world with a 10-point action plan that they said cou ...More

Developmental gains will crumble if India follows a model of growth that is resource-and-energy-intensive. As it is, rivers are degraded, pollution is growing, forest cover's thinning. Overhaul of gre ...More

The NDA government, in the Supreme Court, blamed the Congress-led UPA regime for the delay in setting up of an independent environmental regulatory authority to monitor compliance of green laws while ...More

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wishes Prime Mininster Narendra Modi would attend the Climate Change Summit next week at the UN in New York. "I really wanted to have him participate in the climate chan ...More

New Delhi: More floods on the lines of the one that hit Jammu and Kashmir will occur in the country, warned climate change experts. Kashmir floods as an event is not the result of climate change. How ...More

Today many of us especially the youngsters invest a lot in their appearance. “It costs a bomb to keep up with times,” is the common refrain. But looking fashionable can also be fun without hurting you ...More

As the rising temperature and changing weather pattern stoke concerns among the international community, the experts from world over will meet at historical Chamba town of the hill- state to discuss t ...More

NEW DELHI: India is expected to stick to its tough stand on climate negotiation and make no new announcement at the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's climate summit in New York this month, whic ...More

The traditional formula on climate change that says that regions that have a moist climate will experience additional rainfall is no longer valid, scientists say. The old formula that dry gets drier ...More

CHENNAI: Climate change is much talked about but not fully comprehended by the lay person. However, in a world combating the adverse effects of climate change, it becomes essential to educate and sens ...More

Before climate change became the most important global environmental concern, the depletion of the ozone layer dominated the discourse. This depletion was being caused by the use of CFCs (chlorofluoro ...More

Nagpur: Even as all major political parties are leaving no stone unturned to woo voters in the region during the last-minute campaigning for the state assembly elections, vital issues pertaining to fo ...More

European Union wants a shift in the principle of "common but differentiated responsibility" in tackling climate change related issues to one where developing countries, including India, too make highe ...More

WASHINGTON: Scientists have developed a new approach to reliably estimate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning fossil fuels, which could help policy makers to reach an agreement on strategies t ...More

“Sometimes things don’t go, after all, from bad to worse,” wrote the poet Sheenagh Pugh. “Some years, muscadel faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don’t fail.” News that the ozone layer is show ...More

For those concerned about the environment, the three-day Clima film festival — on till September 13 and organised by Ennovate Global and Good Relations India, in partnership with United Nations Founda ...More

Guwahati: The Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park, about 150 km from here, is likely to become the fourth tiger reserve in the state, with the state forest department planning to submit a proposal to the ...More

NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal has issued a stay order on three real estate companies' attempts to change the land use pattern in parts of Mangar Bani, a sacred grove off the Gurgaon-Faridab ...More