Melbourne: Climate change may cause the wing length of some birds to rapidly grow, according to scientists who warn that even small rise in temperatures may have a profound effect on various species. ...More

Climate change is projected to cause higher mortality in many parts of the United States, according to a new report published in the journal Science. The report 's authors calculated the expected cha ...More

Calling the Western Ghats as the country’s lungs, Union Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Anil Madhav Dave said here on Friday that one must be practical in conserving water ...More

New Delhi: Its not been a great year for wildlife. More tigers and leopards were poached in 2016 than in any year of the previous decade, pangolins were killed in the hundreds while thousands of marin ...More

NEW DELHI: At loggerheads with the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests over issues related to allowing Jallikattu and others, Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) chairman Major General (retd) ...More

KOLKATA: The skyline on this part of the country turns grey by afternoon. By dusk, a thick layer of smog envelops the horizon. With winter setting in, millions living in rural and suburban India has m ...More

Its not been a great year for wildlife. More tigers and leopards were poached in 2016 than in any year of the previous decade, pangolins were killed in the hundreds while thousands of marine animals p ...More

NEW DELHI: Its not been a great year for wildlife. More tigers and leopards were poached in 2016 than in any year of the previous decade, pangolins were killed in the hundreds while thousands of marin ...More

New Delhi, Dec 28: Its not been a great year for wildlife. More tigers and leopards were poached in 2016 than in any year of the previous decade, pangolins were killed in the hundreds while thousands ...More

LONDON: Birds have evolved larger brains to cope in harsh environments where the tasks of finding food, evading predators and finding shelter are more demanding, say scientists who predict that smart ...More

In the spring of 2015, the conversation on pollution in China kicked into an even higher gear with an online documentary film, Under the Dome, by a former TV journalist, Chai Jing. The documentary did ...More

NEW DELHI: Its not been a great year for wildlife. More tigers and leopards were poached in 2016 than in any year of the previous decade, pangolinswere killed in the hundreds while thousands of marine ...More

Wildlife activists and experts finally heaved a sigh of relief after forest department released the leopard they trapped from Aarey milk colony on Sunday night. DNA had first reported on December 24 ...More

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment has found the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change lacking in taking enough measures to check pollution. The committee said, "Air pol ...More

New Delhi: Green activists have often described the environment ministry as a rubber stamp authority when it comes to giving clearances. They have some evidence in support of the claim—less than 1% of ...More

More fish species on the east coast, especially in the waters off Odisha and West Bengal, are highly vulnerable to climate change, according to a first of-its-kind assessment by the Central Marine Fis ...More

Bhubaneswar, Dec 21 (PTI) The Indian Meteorological Society (IMS) today suggested the Odisha government to start a study at a pilot site along the states coast to access impact of climate change. "A ...More

COIMBATORE: Meteorologists on Tuesday stressed on the need to preserve natural resources while increasing food production that was inevitable to meet the requirements of an ever-growing population of ...More

Researchers in the United States have found that local experiences and temperatures drive belief or non-belief of people in climate change. The study, published in the Journal of Proceedings of the N ...More

When it comes to climate change and the battle to keep it in check, 2016 was a year of extremes. The euphoria of the super-fast entry into force of the Paris Agreement to curb global warming crashed d ...More