Nagpur: With work on four-laning of NH-7 between Mansar and Khawasa in full swing, National Tiger Conservation Authority ( NTCA ) under the ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC ...More

PARIS: The Statue of Liberty, Uganda's gorilla forest, Stonehenge and Venice — theUnited Nations on Thursday listed 31 protected sites threatened by sea level rise, drought and other climate change ef ...More

With more than 100 crore mobile phones in circulation, nearly 25 per cent end up in e-waste annually. India, which has emerged as the world’s second largest mobile market, is also the fifth largest p ...More

Coimbatore: Even dead trees play a vital part in maintaining a region's biosphere, say ornithologists. According to them, dead trees are usually preferred for setting up nests by certain bird species ...More

NEW DELHI: India, which is has emerged as world's second largest mobile market, is also the fifth largest producer of e-waste, discarding roughly 18.5 lakh metric tonnes of electronic waste each year, ...More

NEW DELHI: Dairy business provides livelihood to 60 million rural households in India and the country continues to be the largest producer of milk in the world, but global warmingcould result in adver ...More

NEW DELHI, MAY 23: Prakash Javadekar, at the helm of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, is intent on not letting the ministry be seen as an “impediment''. Addressing the me ...More

NEW DELHI: The environment ministry has its work cut out for the next three years. The Prakash Javadekar-led ministry will now devote all its efforts to ensure compliance of the environmental laws. Fo ...More

SAHEBGANJ: NamamiGange—the flagship programme of Narendra Modi government at Centre—to clean up Ganges has partnered with UNDP for the mammoth task. Country director UNDP in India JacoCilliers strongl ...More

Apollo Tyres and Wildlife Trust of India have entered into a partnership to restore a critical mangrove project in Kerala's Kannur district. Apollo Tyres and Wildlife Trust of India announced th ...More

BONN: Using up all known fossil fuel reserves would render Earth even more unlivable than scientists had previously projected, researchers said on Monday. Average temperatures would climb by up to ...More

The Government remains committed to cleaning the sacred river which lies at the heart of the Indian civilisation. However, several challenges remain, from improving sewage management to balancing hydr ...More

NEW DELHI: Dairy business provides livelihood to 60 million rural households in India and the country continues to be the largest producer of milk in the world, but global warming could result in adve ...More

Current rates of climate change may trigger instability in a major Antarctic glacier, ultimately leading to a sea-level rise of almost three metres, a new study has warned. Researchers studied the To ...More

UNITED NATIONS: Nearly 40 million Indians will be at risk from rising sea levels by 2050, with people in Mumbai and Kolkata having the maximum exposure to coastal flooding in future due to rapid urban ...More

NEW DELHI: The concluding sessions of the Indo-US workshop on air pollution on Wednesday ended with heated exchange of words. Ranged on two sides were SunitaNarain, head of Centre for Science and Envi ...More

LONDON: Current rates of climate change may trigger instability in a major Antarctic glacier, ultimately leading to a sea-level rise of almost three metres, a new study has warned. Researchers stu ...More

Last December in Paris, 195 governments reached a consensus on how to curb climate change over the coming decades. But, as usual when it comes to the United Nations, the deal that was struck was big o ...More

A rapidly melting glacier atop East Antarctica is on track to lift oceans at least two metres, and could soon pass a “tipping point” of no return, researchers said Wednesday. To date, scientists have ...More

NEW DELHI: The concluding sessions of the Indo-USworkshop on air pollution on Wednesday ended with heated exchange of words. Ranged on two sides were SunitaNarain, head of Centre for Science and Envir ...More