Environment

Bhubaneswar: After protest by green lovers and a PIL in Orissa High Court against felling of hundreds of trees for construction of apartments for MLAs in Odisha capital, now children...

Bhubaneswar: Eco Man Ramkrishna Dash suggested the need for a well-planned programme to implement holistic development of rural areas and the need to take up “back to village’ challenge’ while speaking...

When I was posted as Member Secretary of the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Odisha, in April 2009, a colleague of my father wondered, “Why are you joining an organization...

Kyiv: Russian forces have destroyed a functioning laboratory at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine has claimed. The lab built, in 2015 with European Commission’s support, was set up at...

Kyiv: In a worrying development amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, radiation levels around the occupied Chernobyl nuclear plant are likely to rise because its radiation monitoring system and forest fire-fighting...

Bhubaneswar: Even as summer heat is yet to peak in the state, forest fire has been reported from two districts, threatening the lives of wildlife and green cover. According to...

London: We all know that climate change is wreaking havoc on our planet. But according to a new assessment, the adverse impacts of climate change are far greater, more frequent...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) has included more items in the ban on single use plastic in urban areas and set the deadline of June 30 for...

London: Indian politician Suresh Prabhu has bagged a prestigious post at the Grantham Research Institute -- Climate Change and Environment. Grantham, one of five global institutes at Imperial College London,...

Bhubaneswar: In order to promote renewable energy, the state government has signed an agreement with National Hydroelectric Corporation (NHPC). According to a Power Ministry statement, the NHPC signed promoters agreement...