Environment

Berhampur: The annual bird census at Chilika Lake was carried out early on Tuesday morning. At least 21 teams comprising 105 Forest Department officials were engaged in the exercise. The...

Dr Ajit Pattnaik, my batch and cadre-mate in the Indian Forest Service (IFS), is a mild mannered, sincere and ingenious person. During our training at the National Forest Academy (NFA)...

New Delhi: Human activities have already wrecked havoc on nature resulting in drastic climate change. The recent unprecedented rains and floods in Tamil Nadu are a case in point. A...

New Delhi: In a scathing observation, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said that debates on TV news channels are creating more pollution as everyone has ‘own agenda’. A bench headed...

Gurugram: The Haryana government on Sunday ordered schools to be closed in four districts -- Gurugram, Faridabad, Sonipat and Jhajjar -- till November 17 due to the frightening pollution levels...

New Delhi: Hours after Supreme Court termed the pollution situation in Delhi-NCR as ‘emergency’ and suggested a lockdown be clamped in the national capital, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday...

New Delhi: Photographs and videos of women taking dip in the poisonous foam floating on the Yamuna river have gone viral over the last couple of days. Even as a...

New Delhi: Pollution level was expected to worsen due to Diwali. But the nation’s capital recorded a five-year high average air quality index (AQI) of 462 on Friday. Last year,...

London: Everyone talks about global warming and climate change as the biggest challenge faced by humanity. World leaders spoke extensively about the subject at the recent COP26 global summit in...

Glasgow: An Indian schoolgirl made waves at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow. Meet 15-year-old Vinisha Umashankar from Tamil Nadu, who made world leaders sit up and take notice...