KSBB to use species as environmental indicator A three-day butterfly survey organised by the Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB) and the Forest and Wildlife Department in North Wayanad has reveale ...More

The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the Centre's notification on Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu. The Animal Welfare Board had moved the apex court against Centre's move to lift ban on the controversial bul ...More

All 42 rivers covered under the National River Conservation Plan (NRCP) should come under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation (MoWRRDGR) to ev ...More

IMPHAL: Union Minister Prakash Javedkar has said the Centre will extend all help to protect the brow antlered deer whose numbers in the entire world is just 204, according to a 2013 census. Wildlif ...More

Pune: Union minister of state for environment, forests and climate change Prakash Javadekar said on Thursday that securing alliances with the largest countries and small island nations helped India se ...More

HYDERABAD: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) India chief executive officer PoorvaJoshipura has criticized the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change decision to permit ev ...More

Jan. 8: Spare no effort to protect the cow but not the bull. The biggest gender disparity in the country in recent memory was put in place by the Narendra Modi government today when it facilitated th ...More

Gurgaon: A week into the odd-even experiment, the levels of black carbon in the air have decreased by almost 50% according to a study by Indian Aerosol Science and Technology Association and students ...More

Chennai: Even as Tamil Nadu erupted in joy as the central government on Friday announced its decision to allow the traditional 'Jallikattu' or bull taming sport during the state's Pongal festival, the ...More

Vijayawada: Global warming leads to torrential rains and which results in floods and the water going waste, said Waterman of India Rajendra Singh and adding that rains in Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad ...More

Former IPS officer and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kiran Bedi on Friday slammed the Centre's decision to permit the controversial sport of 'Jallikattu' in Tamil Nadusaying that the 'abhorrent' ...More

The Centre has issued a notification to allow the banned bull taming sport Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu this year by altering a Ministry of Environment notification in 2011. In effect, the latest notifica ...More

Going into 2016, there are four policy wishes uppermost on my mind. My first wish is that the platform for discussion of climate change issues be shifted from country-level meetings of the kind just ...More

If extreme weather events impact directly, rise in vector-borne diseases and mental health issues are the indirect consequences Before the Paris accord on climate protection, health was not a noted c ...More

Setting a precedent for the entire country, the Union tribal affairs ministry has revised its views to re-interpret theForest Rights Act (FRA) and allow the Maharashtra forest department to get contro ...More

Nagpur: The Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court on Thursday directed Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) to file an affidavit on ongoing construction activities in city and status of noise poll ...More

HYDERABAD: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) India chief executive officer Poorva Joshipura has criticized the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change decision to permit e ...More

In yet another move to curb vehicular pollution, the Centre on Wednesday decided to straightaway implement stricter emission norms of Bharat Stage (BS) VI from April 1, 2020, by skipping BS-V. At pres ...More

Setting a precedent for the entire country, the Union tribal affairs ministry has revised its views to re-interpret theForest Rights Act (FRA) and allow Maharashtra forest department to get control ba ...More

New Delhi: The government of India has banned the import of exotic skins of reptiles like crocodiles and alligators and animas like fox, mink and chinchillas. The Director General of Foreign Trade, w ...More