The official said a lot of countries are expected to ratify the pact during the UN General Assembly this month. The U.S is confident that India will be able to ratify the Paris Agreement on climate c ...More

Today is World Ozone Day. What can we do to protect the ozone layer? September 16, 1987 marks an important day in history as the Montreal Protocol was signed. Representatives from 24 countries met in ...More

NEW YORK: Polar bears, whose global population is estimated at nearly 25,000, are increasingly losing life-sustaining sea ice crucial for their hunting, resting as well as for breeding in the Arctic r ...More

President Barack Obama said Thursday that he created the Atlantic Ocean’s first national monument because the planet cannot be protected without trying to safeguard its oceans. Obama announced the ne ...More

Creating the Atlantic Ocean's first marine national monument is a needed response to dangerous climate change, oceanic dead zones and unsustainable fishing practises, President Barack Obama said today ...More

US President Barack Obama on Thursday designated the country’s first marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean that aims to protect fragile deep-sea ecosystems off the coast of New England. Obam ...More

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama announced the creation of a new marine reserve on Thursday as Washington hosted a major world summit on protecting the planet's oceans. Obama addressed the first ...More

Chandrapur: A scientist from union ministry for environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC) visited Chandrapur Super Thermal Power Station (CSTPS) here after a complaint was lodged by MoEFCC regio ...More

The United States on Thursday joined more than 20 countries in creating 40 new marine sanctuaries around the world to protect oceans from the threat of climate change and pollution. President Barack ...More

The Telangana State Pollution Control Board has declared that some toxic chemicals being used in making Ganesh Idols take several months to dissolve in water and in the process adversely affect the wa ...More

PARIS: Polar bears are losing life-sustaining sea ice crucial for hunting, resting and breeding in all 19 regions of the Arctic they inhabit, a study warned on Wednesday. As climate change pushes u ...More

The growing menace of stubble burning in states like Haryana and Punjab, which is a major cause of air pollution in the national capital, today led the Delhi High Court to direct the government to ens ...More

A good rain this year has ensured early arrival of winter migratory birds at Okhla Bird Sanctuary, claim birders. The birdwatchers claim to have spotted migratory water birds such as Black-tailed God ...More

New Delhi: In a bid to develop a conservation plan for the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard, non-governmental organisations and the Rajasthan government have come together to undertake a dog ...More

PARADIP: Thousands of fishes have been found dead in the 25 km stretch between Jatadhari river mouth and Siali beach in Jagatsinghpur district. Even as fishes are lying dead for the last five days al ...More

New York: Polar bears, whose global population is estimated at nearly 25,000, are increasingly losing life-sustaining sea ice crucial for their hunting, resting as well as for breeding in the Arctic r ...More

As Arctic sea ice flirts with its lowest levels in recorded history, polar scientists are taking the opportunity to remind us that it isn't just humans who are screwed because of melting ice caps. Rem ...More

Big fish and other large ocean creatures face higher risks of extinction than small ones, overturning a 500 million-year pattern and indicating that human hunting is to blame, scientists said on Wedne ...More

Polar bears, whose global population is estimated at nearly 25,000, are increasingly losing life-sustaining sea ice crucial for their hunting, resting as well as for breeding in the Arctic region, a s ...More

NEW DELHI: Environment ministers of the BRICS nations will meet in Goa on September 16 to strengthen mutual cooperation in critical areas like air and water pollution, liquid and solid waste managemen ...More