Environment

Sambalpur: A group of Plus II students has earned the appreciation of people after they helped the Forest officials extinguish a raging fire in a forest near their school in...

New Delhi: That sea levels will rise with increasing ocean temperatures has been known to scientists for a long time. Now, a study has found that rise in sea level...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha journalists can promote awareness on climate change affecting the state to minimise the effects of natural calamities, said David Moyer, Public Affairs Officer, US Consulate General, Hyderabad. Speaking...

Bhubaneswar/Baripada: A few days after PCCF stated that Odisha is likely to witness more incidents of wildfire this summer, a major fire spread in Similipal Reserve Forest in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district...

Odisha State pollution control board (OSPCB) has issued a notification directing 22 sponge iron companies in Rourkela to shut their units for a month with a view to checking pollution...

Berhampur: ‘Green Man of Odisha' Sudhir Rout, who has planted more than 1.8 lakh saplings in public places, has drawn the attention of the state government towards uprooting of trees...

Carmakers will shut the lines manufacturing these vehicles as the engine updation process will be expensive, especially for diesel vehicles.

According to local inhabitants, the smuggling of tortoises from the district Fishery office has become a common affair.

New Delhi: Air pollution levels in the national Capital reached alarming levels yet again, forcing the government to take measures including banning of certain vehicles at least for this week....

New Delhi: A high-resolution satellite image taken less than 48 hours ago shows a cloud of the powerful greenhouse gas methane near a waste facility in India. The image is...