India presents a unique environmental contrast: while the landscape in fast-growing cities is crumbling under human pressure, the Himalayas and the coastal areas are conserving the nature's best asset ...More

Rallies, awareness drives, planting saplings and seminars marked the ‘World Environment Day’ celebrations held here on Wednesday. Several organisations took part in an attempt to create awareness towa ...More

COIMBATORE: Planting of hundreds of tree saplings, conducting a tree survey, desilting of Ukkadam Lake and launch of a nationwide campaign against food wastage marked World Environment Day in the city ...More

KOCHI: The United Kingdom (UK) is attempting to double its trade with India by 2015, said Eric Pickles, British cabinet minister for communities and local government. Pickles, who is leading a 20-m ...More

Corporates decided to go that extra mile to celebrate World Environment Day. Though an initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme, most companies use the day as an annual event to reinforc ...More

Corporates decided to go that extra mile to celebrate World Environment Day. Though an initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme, most companies use the day as an annual event to reinforc ...More

India presents a unique environmental mix with urban landscape crumbling under human pressure and far-flung coastal and Himalayan regions conserving nature's best. Sitting in cities one may not relea ...More

Most still think it's the ruling dispensation that should resolve environmental issues; worse, one in three is a climate-change denier. There’s something grossly wrong with the environment of Bangalo ...More

Green India Mission, the Rs 46,000-crore ambitious project meant to increase the country’s forest cover, is struggling to keep itself rolling due to fund crunch. The ministry of environment and for ...More

As pressure on the environment is growing with the increasing energy consumption, carbon footprint, felling trees, global warming and emission, we see the effects reaching us in the form of climate ch ...More

KOLKATA, 4 JUNE: A Bangladeshi couple has set out on a world tour on motorbike to create awareness about climate change. Mohammad Shahade Ferdous and Fatema Sultana Shama had started their “Ride for ...More

Zee Media has brought another edition of India’s biggest environmental awareness initiative, ‘My Earth My Duty’. The fourth edition of the campaign is being launched on the occasion of World Environme ...More

The Times Of India's Earthcare Awards recognise actions and innovations that help communities adapt to climate change impacts. Started in 2008, the Awards have been ably won by grass-root level or ...More

There used to be a huge tamarind tree where the road turned into Sumangali Seva Ashrama Road. Children played under it, birds nested in it and it made for a cool shade in summer. Back then, summers ...More

America's wildfire season lasts two months longer than it did 40 years ago and burns up twice as much land as it did in those earlier days because of the hotter, drier conditions produced by climate c ...More

Most Chennaiites look to the government to protect the environment rather than to NGOs or anybody else, and turn to newspapers for information related to environment. This was part of the findings of ...More

NEW DELHI: In 2009, Delhi became the first city in India to come out with a comprehensive plan for combating climate change. The ambitious proposal outlined actions to be taken under five heads that i ...More

WORLD Environment Day (‘WED’) is celebrated every year on 5 June to raise global awareness of the need to take positive environmental action. When we were in school ages ago, there was a favourite top ...More

NEW DELHI: Are we too late? Or is there time to arrest the rollercoaster ride to doomsday predictions? Either way, has the science of climate change ever influenced negotiations at climate meets? Niti ...More

NEW DELHI: The first phase of Delhi's climate change agenda came to an end in 2012 and the government is now set to bring out its new edition. Within two months, an extension of the existing plan, bas ...More