Guwahati: The rediscovery of a butterfly after 83 years in the country in Arunachal Pradesh has gladdened butterfly lovers all over. A group of three persons working with the Zoological Survey of Ind ...More

Human activities are leading to rapid and irreversible changes in the Earth system Climate change is likely to have a devastating impact on King penguins if global warming continues at its present ra ...More

Narendra Modi government has finally decided to roll back its order to ban sale and purchase of cattle from animal markets for slaughter. In the months after the order passed last year, the move had ...More

Climate change is likely to have a devastating impact on King penguins if global warming continues at its present rate, scientists warn. "The main issue is that there is only a handful of islands in ...More

PANAJI/MARGAO: The Corporation of City of Panaji has issued notices to shopkeepers and street vendors for compliance with the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016 asking them to register with the corp ...More

London: Climate change is likely to have a devastating impact on King penguins if global warming continues at its present rate, scientists warn. “The main issue is that there is only a handful of isl ...More

German cities can ban the most heavily polluting diesel cars from their streets, a court ruled on Tuesday, a move likely to accelerate a shift away from the combustion engine and force manufacturers t ...More

Climate change is likely to have a devastating impact on King penguins if global warming continues at its present rate, scientists warn. "The main issue is that there is only a handful of islands in ...More

MEXICO CITY: Storms, floods and other extreme weather events are hitting cities much harder than scientists have predicted, said the head of a global network of cities tackling climate change. The se ...More

Melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are accelerating the pace of sea level rise, according to new satellite research. If the current rate were to continue, the world's oceans on average wi ...More

The environment ministry hopes to bring down air pollution in around 100 non-attainment cities by 50 per cent in the next five years under the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP), Union minister Harsh ...More

With the vulture, it was the tragedy of the commons. Once, these large, ungainly birds were ubiquitous – seen in both cities and the countryside, perched on trees and electric poles, cliffs and houset ...More

BENGALURU: The announcement of the Union Budget on February 1 has upset the environmentalists. The reason is not that Bengaluru was not allotted funds for the rejuvenation of lakes or to tackle air po ...More

The All-India Tiger Estimation, 2018 exercise promises not just to be hi-tech, but will also be far more accurate and precise than ever before. In an interactive session with mediapersons here today, ...More

Nearly two years after the Biomedical Waste Management Rules, 2016, made it mandatory to segregate untreated biomedical waste into four types of coloured bags for disposal, Government Multi-Specialty ...More

New Delhi [India], Feb.6 (ANI): Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan today reviewed the preparations for the two-week long drill to contain air pollution in Delhi, with off ...More

The ozone layer, which protects us from harmful ultraviolet radiation, is recovering at the poles, but unexpected decreases in part of the atmosphere may be preventing recovery at lower latitudes. Gl ...More

Karachi: Historically a small fishing village, Karachi has now turned into Pakistan’s biggest commerce and industrial centre that generates about half of the country’s tax revenue. The city also acco ...More

The Union Budget 2018-19 has left the environment sector in the lurch as it is "neither populous nor helping 'Ease of Doing' business", with the government's special scheme to combat air pollution bei ...More

THE WILDLIFE Conservation Trust (WCT), along with US Agency for International Development (USAID), held the screening of a short film, titled Tiger Matters, during a seminar in the city on Saturday. T ...More