New Delhi: The Union environment ministry is planning to set up special observatories in various parts of the country as it struggles with insufficient data on the impact of climate change in differen ...More

Chengdu, China: The giant panda may have been taken off the endangered species list, but the emblematic black and white bear still faces a plethora of risks including epidemics and climate change, Chi ...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

New Delhi: The Union environment ministry is planning to set up special observatories in various parts of the country as it struggles with insufficient data on the impact of climate change in differen ...More

Chengdu, China: The giant panda may have been taken off the endangered species list, but the emblematic black and white bear still faces a plethora of risks including epidemics and climate change, Chi ...More

Over a month ago, Maneka Gandhi had expressed anger for the Environment Ministry’s move of declaring some wild animals as a vermin in a few states for a period of one year. While in Bihar, two wild an ...More

Maintaining that the world is changing with increasing energy demand, shifting energy markets and the effects of climate change, India and Canada have agreed take action to combat climate change throu ...More

International Union for Conservation of Nature has declared the giant panda as 'no longer' endangered but experts say that it might just be a bit early to take the species off the list. They warn of t ...More

A big conservation jamboree is on in Hawaii over 1-10 September. Some 9,000 delegates from 190 countries, including heads of state, government officials, scientists, indigenous people and business lea ...More

MUMBAI: A day after the circus elephant ran amok in Pune, animal rights groups have once again raised concern about the cruelty involved by forcing animals like elephants to perform. The Animal Welfar ...More

AHMEDABAD: Greater Gir remains the last habitat of Asiatic lions on earth, and it seems to have no place in the Centre's Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitats (IDWH). Earlier, the UPA government ...More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged on Thursday to formally join the Paris climate change agreement this year, a potentially major step toward the pact entering into force. After a meeting with US&# ...More

The government on Thursday said it has made no decision as yet on ratifying the Paris Climate Change Agreement, even as the issue found mention during Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Bar ...More

Within hours of the bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama, a White House official Thursday said that Modi has pledged to formally join the Paris climate ...More

Air pollution deaths have cost the global economy about $225 billion in lost labour income in 2013, according to a new study. The World Bank and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) ...More

It is too soon to downgrade the conservation status of China’s giant pandas as they still face severe threats, a leading conservationist said, after the International Union for Conservation of Natur ...More

The study documents evidence of jellyfish, seabirds and plankton shifting toward the cooler poles by up to 10 degrees latitude Global warming is making the oceans sicker than ever before, spreading d ...More

WASHINGTON: Migrating birds fly faster and put more effort into staying on course in spring than in fall, racing to arrive to their breeding grounds as soon as possible to get an edge in raising the n ...More

Researchers found that the birds speed up during spring because arriving late to their breeding grounds can affect their reproductive success. Past studies have shown that migrants take shorter bre ...More

New York, September 7: Migrating birds fly faster and put more effort into staying on course in spring than in fall, a study shows. The study, published in the journal The Auk: Ornithological Advances ...More