Manila: A business-as-usual approach to climate change will be "disastrous" for Asia, undoing much of the phenomenal economic growth that has helped it make vast inroads against poverty, the Asian Dev ...More

One of the biggest icebergs on record has broken away from Antarctica, scientists said on Wednesday, creating an extra hazard for ships around the continent as it breaks up. The one trillion tonne ice ...More

Analysis of satellite images have revealed an “alarming recession” of glaciers in the Bhilangna basin of the Garhwal Himalayas from 1965, scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) ha ...More

Chandigarh: With solid waste management becoming a major issue in Chandigarh, the municipal corporation in association with National Productivity Council organized a capacity building technical worksh ...More

Marine pollution threatens the entire oceanic ecosystem — both aquatic creatures as well as humans We all know that the Ganges is the country’s lifeline, a sacred river of the Hindus, but also the s ...More

Former Union Environment Minister, while addressing the Observer Research Foundation in Mumbai, said that India is the most vulnerable country in the world to climate change and should demonstrate lea ...More

PARIS: The sixth mass extinction of life on Earth is unfolding more quickly than feared, scientists have warned. More than 30 percent of animals with a backbone -- fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles ...More

HYDERABAD: The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday banned the use of synthetic and nylon (Chinese) manja on the grounds that it posed threat to life and the environment. The order excludes cotton threa ...More

Rourkela: At a time when air pollution has become a global issue, as many as 97 highly polluting industrial units have been identified in Sundargarh and Deogarh districts alone. According to the Oris ...More

India on Saturday joined 18 other G-20 members to strongly support the fight against global warming during the final agreement by the leaders of the Group of 20 economic powers at combating climate ch ...More

What is polluting cities? It is now a part of record that several cities in India are among the most polluted in the world. The villain, in most cases, is aerosols and particulate matter. It is a cat ...More

The environment minister on Wednesday launched a month-long tree plantation drive to mark Van Mahotsav. The first tree planting campaign started in Delhi. It was part of Van Mahotsav celebrations, th ...More

Global warming and climate change are a result of ignoring the teachings of our ancestors, Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Wednesday. The minister, who started a plantation drive here ...More

New Delhi, Jul 5 (PTI) Asserting that environment protection must be taken up as a movement, Union Minister Harsh Vardhan today said his ministry is preparing a "databank of doables" to enhance awaren ...More

New Delhi: Climate change has the temperatures soaring like never before and increasing with every single day. The damaging effects are already more than visible and researchers have now said that ev ...More

In a bid to raise awareness on endangered species, four wildlife enthusiasts have embarked on a journey of 25,000 km across 29 states and three neighbouring countries. The members are on a mission to ...More

A new study about the forest cover in India’s Sunderbans will bring a wave of sadness for environmentalists. The mangrove forest cover in the region has been depleting at a rapid rate over the past fe ...More

In an advancement that will ring alarm bells for both environmentalists and policy producers, the mangrove forest cover in the Indian Sunderbans has been depleting alarmingly finished the past couple ...More

Half a degree Celsius of global warming has been enough to increase heat waves and heavy rains in many regions of the planet, researchers reported on Friday. Comparing two 20-year periods — 1960-79 a ...More

Erosion of at least 18 forested islands of the Indian Sunderbans also highlighted by study In a development that will ring alarm bells for both environmentalists and policy makers, the mangrove fores ...More