Environment

New Delhi: With winter approaching and the menace of pollution amid the COVID-19 pandemic a major worry, especially in northern India, the Supreme Court has a simple advice for citizens...

New Delhi: People in Inda are exposed to the highest PM 2.5 concentrations globally. India recorded the highest annual average PM 2.5 concentration exposure in the world last year, according...

Bhubaneswar: It’s important to love birds for more than just their beauty as it can go a long way in protecting nature and ensuring diversity of species, said Gargi Mishra,...

New Delhi: Amidst rising pollution levels in Delhi and NCR regions, the Supreme Court (SC) on Friday appointed retired Justice Madan B Lokur to monitor stubble burning in Punjab, Haryana...

New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted a cooler winter this year, with intense and more frequent cold wave events likely to sweep over India. “The prevailing weak...

New Delhi: With winter coming in, the Delhi government is ramping up efforts to curb the dreaded air pollution that plagues north India every year. A Rs 20-crore 'smog tower'...

New Delhi: The Delhi-Mumbai greenfield expressway, touted to be one of the major infrastructure development projects in India, will be the first in the country to have animal bridges or...

Six years after it was first spotted in Rajasthan, India has confirmed that it has the 1328th species of the butterfly. The Bhimtal-based Butterfly Research Centre declared this and the...

London: A research by more than 200 scientists across 42 countries has assessed that two-fifths of the world’s plants are at risk of extinction. The State of the World’s Plants...

Mumbai: Odisha's Bivash Pandav has been appointed as the new director of Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), which works in the fields of research and conservation A professor at the...