Storms earlier this year blew down more than a hundred acres of forests where migrating monarch butterflies spend the winter in central Mexico, killing more than 7 percent of the monarchs, experts rep ...More

New Delhi: The Union environment ministry plans to overhaul India’s wildlife protection laws and introduce more severe penalties ranging up to Rs.50 lakh for violations. The preliminary draft for ame ...More

AHMEDABAD: Following an appeal by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India to the government of Dadra and Nagar Haveli urging it to ban the caging of birds, local authorities recently ...More

BHOPAL: The current forest laws need to be strengthened with concurrent techniques of information technology (IT) and remote sensing to improve enforcement, as there is a paradigm shift in the new tec ...More

The Union environment, forests and climate change ministry is set to revamp two laws that govern India’s forests and wildlife, and have a direct bearing on tribal rights. While a preliminary draft of ...More

BEIJING: Burning coal has the worst health impact of any source of air pollution in Chinaand caused 366,000 premature deaths in 2013, Chinese and American researchers said on Thursday. Coal is res ...More

Sea ice around Antarctica shrank in a warm period more than 100,000 years ago, an indication that man-made climate change could also trigger an abrupt retreat, a scientific report said Tuesday. A tha ...More

PASTORURI GLACIER (Peru): The tropical glaciers of South America are dying from soot and rising temperatures, threatening water supplies to communities that have depended on them for centuries. But ex ...More

In Siberia, melting permafrost released anthrax that had been frozen in a reindeer carcass for decades, starting a deadly outbreak. In Baghdad, soaring temperatures forced the government to shut down ...More

Plan to replace forests over thousands of acres in Kodagu, Shivamogga and Chikkamagaluru districts with plantations is a ticking time bomb; it will lead to reduced inflow into rivers that feed Bengalu ...More

While most people accept the reality of human-caused global warming, we tend not to view it as an urgent issue or high priority. That lack of immediate concern may in part stem from a lack of understa ...More

Even as the ministry of environment and forest drags its feet on translocating lions from Gujarat to Madhya Pradesh, a Wildlife Institute of India report has said that the Kuno-Palpur sanctuary in MP ...More

Guwahati : A plantation drive was organized by Meghalaya Cement Limited (MCL) to protect environment by planting 40,000 saplings of 53 species on Saturday in the industrial premise of MCL in Meghalaya ...More

GUWAHATI, Aug 14 - Altogether 100 saplings were planted on the GeetaMandir hilltop yesterday by members of five organisations of greater Zoo-Narengi Road localities. Several senior citizens also took ...More

The Earth is so hot this year that a limit for global warming agreed by world leaders at a climate summit in Paris just a few months ago is in danger of being breached. In December, almost 200 nation ...More

Climate change is not only an increasing concern for humans but rising sea levels and climbing temperatures may also threaten our closest cousins - monkeys, apes and lemurs, a new study has found. Th ...More

Farming and hunting pose a more immediate threat to wildlife than climate change, researchers said Wednesday, in a controversial plea to redirect resources earmarked for species conservation. In an a ...More

Demand for meat and body parts have driven the Western gorilla and Chinese pangolin to near extinction The main driver of wildlife extinction is not climate change but humanity's rapacious harvesting ...More

Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave today said the Himalayan range has been suffering from the ill-effects of pollution “the most” even as he discussed various issues including impact of climate cha ...More

Highlighting the dangers associated with manja while flying kites, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has moved the National Green Tribunal seeking an immediate nationwide ban on it. ...More