While we observe Earth Day in India in 2016, we need to reflect on the mindless damage that we are carrying out on the ecosystems of the planet, the disadvantage we are increasing for the poorest of t ...More

Internet giant Google on Friday showcased the beauty of our planet with a Doodle on the occasion of 46th Earth Day. Doodle artist Sophie Diao has sketched out major biomes of Earth, and has portray ...More

This Earth Day - April 22 - is special, not only because over one billion people would join hands to tackle higher carbon emission and land erosion, but also because for the first time 120 countries a ...More

Facing criticism from conservationists for clearing several projects in vulnerable tiger corridors, the union environment, forest and climate change ministry (MoEF&CC) is working on new guidelines to ...More

Tomorrow is a day when many people in India and around the world will be thinking about the Earth and our environment. For many Catholics, people of all faiths and none, April 22 is international Ear ...More

Veerapuram (Anantapur): While many villages witness migration of farm labourers in search of livelihood, painted storks (Mycterialeucocephala) continue to migrate to Rayalaseema’s drought hit villages ...More

India will sign the Paris Agreement on climate change on Friday in New York. The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the matter. The agreement was adopted by around 19 ...More

New Delhi: The Union cabinet on Wednesday approved amendments to the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Bill, 2015, which will facilitate the distribution of around Rs.42,000 crore among all states to en ...More

Scientists from 13 research institutions to study the species for carbon sequestration potential Scientists from 13 research institutions across the country are studying the carbon sequestration pote ...More

Indian government has asked soap and detergent manufacturers to restrain from product testing on animals. The Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA), u ...More

The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Central and State governments on the issue of declaring monkeys as vermin within the Shimla Municipal Corporation’s jurisdiction. A Div ...More

Himachal High Court today issued notices to the Centre and state government on the issue ofdeclaring monkey as vermin for the next six months in the jurisdiction of Shimla Municipal Corporation. T ...More

MAIN CAUSE Human-related factors seem to be the biggest impediments to the peaceful existence of certain species like the blackbuck, writes Ananya Jana Ask any person from a big city and they will te ...More

When the whole world is concerned for the climate change effects, stressing on wider green coverage, ironically a massive tree felling drive is underway here with the administration targeting to cut d ...More

The natural population of these beautiful felines that we are used to seeing under captivity is disintegrating slowly. Tigers are among the most endangered animals on earth. The natural population of ...More

With Vellayani lake, the second largest freshwater lake in the State after the Sasthamcottalake, slowly emerging as a source for piped water supply to urban and rural areas of the district, the focus ...More

Nagpur: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has been neglecting collection and disposal of e-waste, claiming it was not responsible for it. However, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climat ...More

DEHRADUN: The National Mission on Himalayan Studies (NMHS), G. B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development (GBPIHED) under the ministry of environment, forest and climate change has app ...More

New Delhi: Buoyed by the increase in tiger population in India, the government on Thursday said it will extend help to conserve the big cat in other countries where the numbers are fast dwindling or a ...More

In the past few months, there has been a sudden awakening of mainstream interest in India around pollution issues. The newfound interest can be traced back to the widely debated measures taken by the ...More