Environment

Now, green firecrackers with up to 30 per cent lower particulate matter emission are available throughout the country, Union Science Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday at an event in…

The Ganges and Brahmaputra river basins will experience large scale uncertainty in rainfall and frequent floods by 2100 due to the effects of climate change, according to a report by…

Kendrapara: The annual bird census in Bhitarkanika National Park in Kendrapara district will begin from Wednesday. According to Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of Rajnagar Mangrove…

Bhubaneswar: The Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) on Thursday released Rs 47,436.18 crore to 27 states, including Odisha, under the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management And…

Vast tracts of the Amazon forest—the ‘lungs’ of our planet—are on fire. Forest fires in Brazil have been spewing smoke since the beginning of this year, with the country’s most populous city…

One of the world's biggest storage of carbon is on fire for weeks now. The fire is so bad that it has turned day into night in Sao Paulo, thousands of kilometres away. The Amazon forest…

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Forest and Environment Minister Bikram Keshari Arukh on Tuesday told the Assembly that Odisha had lost 106 deer of different species to hunting in the last three years.…

Bhubaneswar: Ekamra Walks, organisers of the only guided heritage trails in the city, have turned green crusaders, distributing eco-friendly pens among visitors. The use-and-throw pens…

Bhubaneswar: Concerned over the alarming fall in the number of gharials (fish-eating crocodiles) in Satkosia gorge, the 21-km narrow stretch of River Mahanadi near Tikarpada, about 60 km…

Bhubaneswar: Here is some disturbing news for Odisha as the world prepares to observe World Environment Day on Wednesday. Six cities of Odisha are among the 102 most polluted in India.…