As many as 12 indigenous Indian species of fishes found in city lakes face the danger of going extinct in a few years due to increasing pollution and climate change, says an ongoing study by a team of ...More

Spanning nearly 750,000 sq km, the EH hotspot covers Nepal, Bhutan, the Indian states of West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, southeast Tibet and northern Myanmar Kolkata, July 21: Slow ...More

India today pitched for the formation of guidelines for enhancing flexibility, developing methodologies and ensuring transparency in phasing out of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a potent greenhouse gas, ...More

The High Court of Uttarakhand in Nainital has issued notice to the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and the Uttarakhand State Government in a petition filed regarding the n ...More

NEW DELHI: Majority of glaciersin India including Gangotri are melting at varying rates ranging from five to 20 metre per year, the government on Tuesday told the Lok Sabha. "The studies carried ou ...More

New Delhi: Most Indian glaciers, including Gangotri, are melting at a rate of 5 to 20 metres per year — at least one of them for over two decades — the union environment ministry revealed on Tuesday. ...More

There are 302 polluted river stretches along 275 rivers in the country. The pollution assessment is based on the bio-chemical oxygen demand (BOD) levels which are the key indicators of pollution, MoS ...More

A boom in shipping is aggravating air pollution in China and other nations in east Asia, causing thousands of deaths a year in a region with eight of the world’s 10 biggest container ports, scientists ...More

Pollution is a matter of concern in cities and towns and is caused due to introduction of contaminants into the environment viz. air, water and soil that may cause adverse change in ambient conditions ...More

NEW DELHI: Government on Tuesday informed the Lok Sabha that majority of the glaciers in the country, including the largest one Gangotri, are melting at varying rates ranging from five to 20 metre per ...More

Searing temperatures caused by climate change may cost global economies more than $2 trillion by 2030, restricting working hours in some of the poorest parts of the world, according to United Nations ...More

‘Planting of Saplings Week’ inaugurated in Udupi Shivashankar B. Amarannavar, Principal District and Sessions Judge, said on Monday that planting saplings was the best way to tackle global warming an ...More

It was the speech by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Madison Square Gardens in September 2015 that inspired Srikrishna Mohan and Ramkumar Mohan, popularly known as the Trichur Brothers, to create a mu ...More

Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in 2005, estimated 1.46 lakh tonnes of e-waste generation in the country, which was expected to exceed 8 lakh tonnes by 2012. As per the United Nations Universit ...More

Nagpur: Residents of Koradi and its nearby areas, including north Nagpur will have to suffer ill effects of pollution for some more months as Mahagenco has sought time for installing pollution control ...More

Animal rights activists and NGOs who had approached the Supreme Court with a plea for quashing three notifications of Centre declaring Nilgais, Monkeys and boars as vermins was asked by the apex court ...More

Proper disposal of e-waste and the right approach towards it is crucial. Their hope for a greener and cleaner future has prompted local representatives, RWAs as well as NGOs in south Delhi to adopt sa ...More

The Paris Climate Change Convention’s directions are not being followed due to lack of financial support, said Prof Gita Sen, Distinguished Professor and Director of Ramalingaswami Centre on Equity an ...More

Bengaluru: The Paris Agreement on climate change may be a step in the right direction but developing countries like India are exempt from binding commitments, which is bound to have adverse effects, e ...More

New Delhi: Ending a nearly four-and-half years’ wait, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has appointed S.P. Singh Parihar, a 1986 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, as a ...More