Amid intense demand of industries and Gujarat government to lift the moratorium on industrial clusters of Vatva, Vapi and Ankleshwar, a high-level delegation of Union Ministry of Environment, Forests ...More

MIAMI: US government scientists are widely expected to announce Wednesday that 2015 was the planet's hottest year in modern times, amid mounting concerns over the pace of climate change worldwide. Las ...More

Miami, United States: US government scientists are widely expected to announce on Wednesday that 2015 was the planet's hottest year in modern times, amid mounting concerns over the pace of climate cha ...More

Over six decades, rising water temperatures appear to have been reducing the amount of phytoplankton – which are food for fish. Negombo, Sri Lanka: Anslem Silva has fished for four decades from this ...More

Negombo (Sri Lanka): Anslem Silva has fished for four decades from this popular harbor on Sri Lanka’s west coast, but for five years now filling his boat has become increasingly difficult. “We seem t ...More

Half of the global ocean heat content increase since 1865 has occurred over the past two decades, says a new study. "In recent decades the ocean has continued to warm substantially, and with time the ...More

Environment activists on Monday wrote to the Prime Minister and the Haryana chief minister to take action against Gurgaon civic agencies for dumping construction waste in a forest area opposite the Bi ...More

New data on deadly levels of air pollution in cities across the globe are scheduled to be released soon by the World Health Organisation (WHO), whose top public health expert has already called it a g ...More

Ranchi: Central Zoo Authority of India (CZA) will hold a meeting in Delhi on January 20, 2016 to discuss the proposal to exchange two tigers from Hyderabad Zoo to Ranchi Zoo. Once approved, it will ta ...More

AWBI cited the recent Supreme Court judgment to ban Jallikattu and similar races that uses animals in the country. Kambala is a traditional buffalo race held at many places in Coastal Karnataka, espe ...More

The synthetic thread coated with glass has the potential to cause injuries to animals and birds he State government on Wednesday imposed complete ban on procuring, stocking, selling and use of nylon ...More

The Telangana government has banned sale and use of Chinese manja (nylon thread) and glass-coated manja for kite-flying in its bid to save birds as well as for the safety of humans. The environment, ...More

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on Wednesday signed a loan agreement with the Indian government to provide a soft loan of Rs 1,000 crore (19 billion Yen) for pollution abatement of Mula- ...More

OSLO: Global warming is likely to disrupt a natural cycle of ice ages and contribute to delaying the onset of the next big freeze until about 100,000 years from now, scientists said on Wednesday. In t ...More

In a bid to prevent harm to birds and others, the TelanganaGovernment today issued orders banning the procurement, sale and use of nylon threads, commonly called 'Chinese manja', during festivals and ...More

The synthetic thread coated with glass has the potential to cause injuries to animals and birds. he State government on Wednesday imposed complete ban on procuring, stocking, selling and use of nylon ...More

More than 100 short-finned pilot whales were stranded along a 15-km stretch of Manapad beach south of the port city of Thoothukudi (Tuticorin) in Tamil Nadu this week, and at least 60 died. How did th ...More

The mass stranding of more than a 100 whales and the death of at least 45 along a 15 km stretch on a Manpad beach in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin (or Thoothukudi) district presented a shocking spectacle on ...More

A similar incident had taken place in 1973 when 147 of them were stranded. In an unusual phenomenon, 45 dead, short-finned pilot whales were washed ashore between Kallamozhi and Manapad in Thoothukud ...More

Although chytrid fungus has become extremely virulent in the wild, an entire species of toads has been saved from it. Rachel Nuwer finds out After a six-year effort, researchers on the Spanish isla ...More