Tenders invited for stations that will come up in five cities With pollution and dust levels rising, the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) has decided to keep tabs on ambient air quality ...More

When spring arrives in the Arctic, both snow and sea ice melt, forming melt ponds on the surface of the sea ice. Every year, as global warming increases, there are more and larger melt ponds.Melt pon ...More

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has sought the Centre’s response on a PIL seeking measures, including framing of a national policy, to save endangered wildlife species like Great Indian Bustards and snow ...More

It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organised creatures. Not all wildlife is created equal in ...More

Nod from Centre awaited for ₹1.18-crore project spread over five years Amid mounting concern over the dwindling wetlands in Kerala, the Malabar Botanical Garden and Institute of Plant Sciences ...More

The Gangotri and Yamunotri glaciers, considered sacred by billions of Indians, were declared on Friday as living entities by the Uttarakhand high court, which also granted similar status to virtually ...More

MANGALURU: India alone generate more than 1,00,000 metric tonnes of solid waste every day, which is higher than many countries' total daily waste generation taken together, Y S Chowdary, minister of s ...More

A nine-year-old child has moved the National Green Tribunal (NGT) alleging inaction by the Centre to mitigate the adverse impact of climate change, prompting the green panel on Wednesday to seek reply ...More

In a bid to protect migratory birds from getting hurt from electricity transmission lines or wind mills, the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) will create satellite (global information system – GI ...More

New Delhi: The effects of climate change and global warming is a phenomenon that has and is still largely being discussed and with good reason. Specially, since it has become a global concern, climate ...More

Extreme weather events, such as unprecedented summer heat, flooding, drought and torrential rain, are an effect of human-caused global warming, a new study has found. Researchers from Pennsylvania Sta ...More

New York: Extreme weather events, such as unprecedented summer heat, flooding, drought and torrential rain, are an effect of human-caused global warming, a new study has found. Researchers from Penns ...More

The mind-numbing results of a major global study released last week by the Health Effects Institute and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation highlight once again the severity of the air pol ...More

New York, Mar 28 (PTI) Extreme weather events, such as unprecedented summer heat, flooding, drought and torrential rain, are an effect of human-caused global warming, a new study has found. Researche ...More

Union Environment Ministry has introduced new category called 'White' for industry sectors. Under 'White' category industries falling in 36 industries will not require environmental clearance. The Mi ...More

NEW DELHI: The implementation of the e-waste rules 2016, which are to come into force this May, may now be delayed with industry associations of electrical and electronic equipment demanding a relaxat ...More

KANNUR: A detailed study is required to find out the cause of frequent incidents of dead dolphins and whales washing ashore along the Kerala coast, and it should be initiated as a multi-institutional ...More

Oslo: A 2015 global pact for fighting climate change will benefit in some ways at least if U.S. President Donald Trump carries out a threat to pull out, backers say, in a shift from gloom about the fa ...More

Hellshire Beach, one of Jamaica’s cultural icons, has appeared in countless documentaries, movies and travelogues about the island nation. The strip of sand, a half-hour drive from the capital and bac ...More

NEW DELHI: Pollution and climate change are adversely affecting people of all age groups and these are also going to have a serious impact in the future, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today. ...More