NEW DELHI: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has moved the National Green Tribunal highlighting dangers associated with use of glass coated thread 'manja' while flying kites and sough ...More

Starting October this year, the union ministry of environment, forest and climate change will begin the population estimation exercise to ascertain the number of wild elephants across India's forests. ...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 harvestin ...More

Incidents of leopard poaching are on the decline with the number of cases going down from 95 in 2013 to just 23 up to June 30 this year. As per records available with the Wildlife Crime Control B ...More

Toronto:Climate change is likely to pose a huge challenge to the survival of the world's primate populations, including monkeys, apes and lemurs, especially in Central America, the Amazon and southeas ...More

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India has filed a petition urging the National Green Tribunal to ban the use of glass coated thread ‘manja’ which is used while flying kites and soug ...More

Miami: Fish are becoming more scarce in Africa's oldest and deepest lake, Lake Tanganyika, because of climate warming, not just overfishing, US researchers said this week. The study on Lake Tanganyik ...More

Animal rights organisation PETA filed a petition with the National Green Tribunal on Tuesday demanding an immediate ban on use of ‘manja’ ahead of Independence Day on August 15. The organisation cited ...More

As many as 1,60,000 people will die every year in India by 2050, due to decreased food production because of climate change, an Oxford University study has predicted. India ranks second in the mortali ...More

New Delhi: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India filed a petition yesterday afternoon, just before Independence Day, urging the National Green Tribunal to ban all forms of the sharp ...More

As floods ravage eastern and northern India, agriculture in 115 districts across 15 states is “highly vulnerable” to climate change, according to a May 2016 study, published in Indian Academy of Scien ...More

The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has published the report Connecting Global Climate Action" in 2015. This report outlines the progress the Travel and Tourism sector has made since the initi ...More

Earth’s fever got worse last year, breaking dozens of climate records, scientists said in a massive report nicknamed the annual physical for the planet. Soon after 2015 ended, it was proclaimed the h ...More

Rising global temperatures are clearly linked to increasing waterborne food poisoning, particularly from eating raw oysters, along with other nasty infections, a new study shows. About a dozen specie ...More

Based on a survey carried out by the Central Pollution Control Board in 2005, the generation of e-waste in the country was assessed at 1.46 lakh ton and was estimated to exceed 8 lakh tonnes by 2012. ...More

It’s not just the marauding Islamic State which poses a great threat to the heritage sites like Palmyra, but climate change too can wreak havoc in cities like Venice, says Mechtild Rossler, Director o ...More

A top wildlife institute has favoured shifting of about 40 lions from Gujarat to Madhya Pradesh’s Palpur Kuno sanctuary, which has been delayed by over three years despite a Supreme Court verdict. In ...More

The shifting of about 40 lions from Gujarat to Madhya Pradesh’s Palpur Kuno sanctuary, that a top wildlife institute had recommended, has been delayed by over three years despite a Supreme Court verdi ...More

Toronto: Climate change is threatening to expose hazardous biological, chemical and radioactive waste at an abandoned Cold War-era base thought to be buried forever in the Greenland Ice Sheet, new res ...More

Climate change is threatening to expose hazardous biological, chemical and radioactive waste at an abandoned Cold War-era base thought to be buried forever in the Greenland Ice Sheet, new research has ...More