In addition to the existing five reserves in the state, Bor Wildlife Sanctuary in Wardha district will become the sixth tiger reserve in the state. The ministry of environment and forests has approv ...More

Throughout the region, the species commands a high socio-cultural reverence and has been designated as the state tree of Uttarakhand. The blooming of rhododendrons heralds the onset of spring in the ...More

ALLAHABAD: Former director prof and head of medicine, MLN Medical College, Dr DK Nigam has recently returned after participating in the international RACP Congress 2014 on 'Future Directions in Heal ...More

Ahead of the UN Climate Change conference, India today said it will play a proactive role to battle global warming but it expected the developed world to "walk the talk" on this crucial issue. En ...More

Ahead of the UN Climate Change conference, India today said it will play a proactive role to battle global warming but it expected the developed world to "walk the talk" on this crucial issue. E ...More

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius Tuesday called for greater cooperation between France and India to tackle climate change and offered a proposed credit line of 1 billion Euro to enable sutaina ...More

Maharashtra got its sixth tiger reserve Tuesday with the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) approving the state’s proposal to notify Bor Wildlife Sanctuary in Wardha district as a tiger reserv ...More

Although greenhouse gases cause greater warming at the poles, few places on the earth will be immune to global warming and the tropics too will likely experience associated climate impacts, such as ...More

The blooming of rhododendrons heralds the onset of spring in the Himalayas, but thanks to climate change they are now flowering early in the winter itself, research shows. A study by a group of ...More

Emperor penguins are in danger of dramatic declines by the end of the century due to climate change as melting sea ice will have a ripple effect on the iconic animal's food chain, a new research has w ...More

A group of filmmakers under the banner of the Bangalore Film Society have decided to provide a global perspective to the issue of water scarcity and will host the 9th edition of ‘Voices from the Water ...More

VARANASI: Renowned environmental scientist from Banaras Hindu University Prof BD Tripathi would attend the 'Ganga Manthan' at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on July 7. The Ganga Manthan which is a nationa ...More

Nairobi: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon capped off a week of high-level U.N. discussions on the environment by "adopting" a 6-month-old lion cub Saturday The young lioness, which was found a ...More

Five years after a NASA satellite to track carbon dioxide plunged into the ocean after liftoff, the space agency is launching a carbon copy this time on a different rocket. The USD 468 million m ...More

BANGALORE: Representatives from the governments of India, China and Myanmar, in collaboration with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), developed a framework for reg ...More

LOS ANGELES: Five years after a NASA satellite to track carbon dioxide plunged into the ocean after liftoff, the space agency is launching another almost exactly like it this time on a different roc ...More

Restricting the effects of climate change would lead to sustainable development, environmentalist R K Pachauri said here on Saturday. “Limiting the effects of climate change is necessary to achieve ...More

WASHINGTON: Earlier spring seasons and snow-melt brought about by climate change are causing migratory birds that breed in the Arctic Alaska to breed sooner, says a study. "It seems clear that the ...More

New Delhi: Environment minister Prakash Javadekar on Thursday reiterated India’s stand on common but differentiated responsibility and the onus on developed countries to take more steps to counter ...More

Appealing for patience and perseverance from environmental activists, President Barack Obama claimed progress on Wednesday in his second-term drive to combat climate change but said more must be don ...More