The Arunachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board (APSPCB) has directed hydropower developers to strictly follow the guidelines of the Central Pollution Control Board for monthly monitoring of ambie ...More

The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has launched long-term monitoring studies in five Himalayan states to document the effect of climate change on animal biodiversity, an official said here on Tuesda ...More

New Delhi: The environment ministry is all set to start a massive countrywide exercise next month to count its elephants, which are India’s national heritage animal. Besides, the government also aims ...More

NAGPUR: At a time when tigers face an ever stronger threat from poaching, a delay in release of funds from the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), a statutory body monitoring all tiger reser ...More

The Zoological Survey of India has started five long-term monitoring plots in the Himalayas to document the impact of climate change on the animal world. The project, funded by the Ministry for Envir ...More

Arunachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board (APSPCB) has directed hydropower developers to strictly follow the guidelines of Central Pollution Control Board for monthly monitoring of ambient air q ...More

New Delhi: In its latest endeavour to lend transparency to the clearance process, the environment ministry on Tuesday launched a portal to facilitate online submission and tracking of requests to mine ...More

A new web portal has been launched for online submission and monitoring of environmental approvals for mining of sand and minor minerals. Launching the web portal at a workshop on mining of sand and m ...More

A workshop on Biomedical Waste Management and Handling Rules 2016 was held here on Tuesday. Biomedical Waste Management and Handling Rules 1998 were replaced by the new rules announced by the Union M ...More

Kolkata: In 2015, Indian taxonomists discovered 262 species of animals that are new to science and were not known to exist. These include 26 fish species, six frogs, four lizards, 16 types of crabs, 3 ...More

Manipur’s brow antlered deer ‘Sangai’ has been included in the Centre-sponsored endangered species recovery programme. The other animals to be included in the list are the great Indian bustard, Ganget ...More

A sobering report released on Monday by the International Energy Agency says air pollution has become a major public health crisis leading to around 6.5 million deaths each year, with “many of its roo ...More

KOHIMA, JUNE 24 : While the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has set this year’s environment agenda to ‘Go Wild for Life’ with a focus on illegal trade in wildlife which is considered to be ...More

Glaciologists are studying Himalayan glaciers to understand the impacts of climate change in the polar climate and its connection to the Indian monsoon. A team of glaciologists from the National Cent ...More

New Delhi: Under fire for its new national draft forest policy which allegedly weakens the forest regulations, the union environment ministry on Saturday backtracked stating that the said draft policy ...More

Panaji is losing its butterflies mainly due to usage of pesticides and landscaping of gardens and parks which has led to destruction of their habitats. In the last ten years, around 70 per of butterfl ...More

In view of rising incidents of human-animal conflict, a new draft national forest policy has proposed a host of measures including taking up habitat enrichment, provision of adequate compensation for ...More

The Union Government on 23 June 2016 launched India’s first pilot programme to run two wheelers on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) in New Delhi. The first of its kind programme was launched by Dharmendr ...More

The Union Government on 23 June 2016 launched India’s first pilot programme to run two wheelers on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) in New Delhi. The first of its kind programme was launched by Dharmendr ...More

In a major step to curb rising air pollution in Indian cities, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas (I/C) Shri Dharmendra Pradhan and Minister of State (I/C) for Environment, Forests & Clim ...More