SHANGHAI: China is ready to share advanced technology, experiences, as well as 'green' practices with India to counter the effects of environmental degradation, such as airpollution, caused by the eco ...More

New Delhi, Jun 22 (PTI) Citing Chinas plan to cut its meat consumption by 50 per cent, animal rights body PETA today urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take similar steps to pave the way for sust ...More

NEW DELHI: The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta), country's prominent animal rights and conservation group, on Wednesday wrote to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling for governm ...More

For the first time in 4 million years, the Earth passed another unfortunate milestone when carbon dioxide levels surpassed 400 parts per million (ppm) at the South Pole, according to US scientists. Ca ...More

Nagpur: The Nagpur district administration has decided to plant 12.13 lakh saplings on July 1 under the 'Green Maharashtra' mission. Of these, over 10.03 lakh saplings will be planted by the three w ...More

The Environment Ministry has proposed a new policy for the management of forests that among other things proposes a green cess to promote “ecologically responsible behaviour” and called on the governm ...More

DEHRADUN : State Action Plan of Climate Change(SAPCC) which has been approved by the Government of India was formally launched in Uttarakhand on Monday with a workshop held among the stakeholders. The ...More

Ahmedabad: RR Rashmi, additional secretary of ministry of environment, forest and climate change, launched certificate course on climate change at Centre for Environment Education (CEE), Ahmedabad, on ...More

Nagpur: Till Monday evening, 95% works under the Nagpur Municipal Corporation's river cleaning drive covering Nag, Pili and Pora were completed. Launched simultaneously in all the three city rivers f ...More

New Delhi: The environment ministry has released the draft of India’s new National Forest Policy (NFP), proposing the levy of a green tax for facilitating ecologically responsible behaviour, supplemen ...More

NEW DELHI: Environmental cess or green tax may be levied on certain products and services for facilitating ecologically responsible behaviour, garnering citizen’s contribution and supplementing financ ...More

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Jun 19 (AP):President Barack Obama said Saturday that climate change is already damaging America’s national parks, with rising temperatures causing Yosemite’s meadows to dry ou ...More

MELBOURNE: Giant Ice Age species such as elephant-sized sloths and powerful sabre-toothed cats suddenly died off around 12,300 years ago as a result of rapidly warming climate along with human activit ...More

Climate change is likely the single most significant threat to the world’s natural resources, including America’s national parks, according to U.S. President Barack Obama. Speaking Saturday in Yosemi ...More

Melbourne, Jun 19 (PTI) Giant Ice Age species such as elephant-sized sloths and powerful sabre-toothed cats suddenly died off around 12,300 years ago as a result of rapidly warming climate along with ...More

The VSS is a Forest Department initiative launched to ensure public participation in forest management. The arrest of VanaSamrakshanaSamiti president at Gurunathanmannu in the Ranni Forest Division f ...More

Despite strong objection on sale of animals and their parts on various e-commerce and free classified websites, poachers and traffickers are using code words to deal in protected animals. The challen ...More

Standing near Greenland's Jakobshavn glacier, the reputed source of the iceberg that sank the Titanic over a century ago, U.S Secretary of State John Kerry saw evidence of another looming catastrophe. ...More

The government has made public its draft National Forest Policy, to replace the one crafted in 1988. Incorporating consequences of climate change but entirely ignoring one of the three forest related ...More

Washington, June 19: US President Barack Obama has warned that the effects of climate change were already being felt in national parks across the country. Speaking from Yosemite National Park in Calif ...More