Less than a kilometre away from the state mangrove cell headquarters in Bandra, construction debris and worn out vehicles have been dumped on a one-acre wetland patch adjacent to the Mithiriver. In t ...More

NEW DELHI: New human resources development (HRD) minister Prakash Javadekar, the only minister of state to be elevated to Cabinet rank on Tuesday, was in Berlin on an official assignment when he got a ...More

NEW DELHI: Prakash Javadekar, the lone Minister of State in the Modi government to have been elevated to Cabinet rank, has been rewarded for his work in the Environment Ministry, especially his pro-ac ...More

Pune: Bullock cart races in the rural pockets of Pune district are edging towards a green light, with the department of legal affairs, belonging to the Ministry of Law and Justice, approving the amend ...More

New Delhi: Prakash Javadekar, the lone Minister of State in the Modi government to have been elevated[ to Cabinet rank, has been rewarded for his work in the Environment Ministry, especially his pro-a ...More

NEW DELHI: Prakash Javadekar, the lone Minister of State in the Modi government to have been elevated to Cabinet rank, has been rewarded for his work in the Environment Ministry, especially his pro-ac ...More

The Law and Justice Ministry has given its approval to a draft amendment to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, which will allow the use of animals in traditional cultural practices. The p ...More

New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) Reiterating that India has already started ratification of the landmark Paris Climate Agreement signed by 195 nations at New York in April this year, Indian Environment Minist ...More

India on Monday underlined the need for countries to take pre-2020 climate actions to curb emissions and sought cooperation among countries in finance and technology sectors to tackle climate change. ...More

NEW DELHI: India said that it has initiated the domestic process for ratifying the Paris Agreement, the global treaty to tackle climate change adopted by 195 countries in December. Addressing the ...More

NEW DELHI: THE Environment Ministry is all set to move a Cabinet note for lifting the ban on bull taming sport jallikattu and bullock cart racing by bringing in an amendment to the Prevention of Cruel ...More

New Delhi: It’s been a little over five months since the Supreme Court retained the ban on jallikattu, a bull taming sport in Tamil Nadu, and the environment ministry is already readying an amendment ...More

The National Tiger Conservation Authority has red flagged a proposed tiger safari project in Uttarakhand’s Corbett National Park and asked the State government to first comply with wildlife norms. Th ...More

Andhra Pradesh will host a two-day international conference of the BRICS Working Group on ‘Energy Savings and Energy Efficiency’ in the port city Visakhapatnam from tomorrow. The central as well as t ...More

IMPHAL, July 3: Brow-antlered deer, one of the rarest deer on Earth popularly known as Sangai (CevusEldiEldi) in local tongue, is on the rise in its natural habitat in Manipur. Around 56 Sangai has i ...More

Bengaluru's innovation and growth may have made it a force to reckon with in recent years, but the price the city has paid in the process now threatens to destroy it. Its vanishing trees, water bodi ...More

PramodMadhwaraj, Minister of State for Fisheries, Youth Services and Sports, said on Sunday that it was essential to give importance to planting saplings to check global warming and climate change. He ...More

In a major new paper in the influential journal Science, a team of researchers report strikingly good news about a 30-year old environmental problem. The Antarctic ozone "hole" - which, when it was ...More

New Delhi: The sudden climate change is wreaking havoc all over the world andAntarctica is no exception. A recent report depicts that the southern polar region could loose the habitat more than half o ...More

Massive plantation drives by states over the past decade have not translated into any significant increase in India’s green cover, an analysis of government data shows, raising concerns over the effic ...More