New Delhi: Integrating climate change into wildlife planning, mitigation of human-wildlife conflict, coastal and marine ecosystem conservation and a focus on wildlife health are among the key areas of ...More

Kochi: Global warming and climate change are the biggest threats to the blue economy and marine resources of the country, said Ola M Johannessen, executive chairman of the board and founding director ...More

A short visit to San Francisco got me thinking about the way we look at marine biodiversity in India. Along with the Golden Gate bridge and Alcatraz island, one of the most iconic attractions of this ...More

New Delhi: The crackdown had been sometime in coming. For 19 months, in fact, since a World Health Organization (WHO) survey of 1,600 cities ranked New Delhi to be the planet’s most polluted urban con ...More

Praising India's climate change initiatives in the run-up to the Paris summit, an eminent American expert has said the implementation of renewable energy targets has the potential to "drastically shif ...More

Praising India's climate change initiatives in the run-up to the Paris summit, an eminent American expert has said the implementation of renewable energy targets has the potential to "drastically shif ...More

Coimbatore: A book about the impact of climate change on Shola Trees in Nilgiris, titled 'Pictorial Guide on Shola Trees' was released by union environment and forests minister Prakash Javadekar, on T ...More

WASHINGTON: Praising India's climate change initiatives in the run¬up to the Paris summit, an eminent American expert has said the implementation of renewable energy targets has the potential to "dras ...More

Coimbatore: A book about the impact of climate change on Shola Trees in Nilgiris, titled 'Pictorial Guide on Shola Trees' was released by union environment and forests minister Prakash Javadekar, on T ...More

Nagpur: Even as the country celebrated World Wetlands Day on February 2, there is a regulatory vacuum around wetlands. This includes Ramsar wetlands, wetlands of national importance as well as interst ...More

Nagpur: Even as the country celebrated World Wetlands Day on February 2, there is a regulatory vacuum around wetlands. This includes Ramsar wetlands, wetlands of national importance as well as interst ...More

The World Wetlands Day was observed on 2 February 2016 across the globe to mark the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands in the city of Ramsar in Iran in 1971. The theme of World Wetlands Day this ...More

Says an AWC water bird census conducted in January Despite bad air quality in the city, Delhi still has a reason to cheer. The Delhi zoo has registered an increase in the bird population, according t ...More

The following is the text of the message of Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Prakash Javadekar, on the occasion of World Wetlands Day, being celeb ...More

Gurgaon: More than a month after the Supreme Court-appointed Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) ordered a stop on the registration of new diesel autos and renewal of fitness certificates f ...More

BHUBANESWAR: Union Minister of Environment and Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) Prakash Javadekar on Monday announced that it would upgrade the Wetland Research and Training Centre (WRTC) into Nati ...More

On February 2, 1971, the convention of wetlands was adopted in Ramsar, Iran, on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Also called the Ramsar Convention, the World Wetland Day marks the date of the signing of ...More

G20 member countries, including India, should strengthen the credibility of their climate action plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to build "confidence" in the Paris agreement on clima ...More

Physician P.S. Shankar has said that global warming and its effects on the environment had a direct impact on the health of human beings and gave rise to serious health complications. Inaugurating the ...More

White-necked stork spotted near Sasthamcottalake for the first-time The five major wetlands in Kerala, including the Vellayani, Sasthamkotta, Vembanad, Ashtamudi and Pookode lakes, and their surround ...More