One need not put up with unbearably high noise during the upcoming Ganeshotsav or for that matter any religious festival.

Decision Taken After Protests By Model Colony Residents

The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has lifted the moratorium on mining and other projects in villages in Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts that are not a part of the ecologically sensi

A biodiversity survey carried out by the Centre for Environment Education (CEE) has documented and photographed 205 varieties of mangoes in the Western Ghats in Maharashtra.

PUNE: It is the official state animal, but no one knows how many Indian giant squirrels there are in Maharashtra.

PUNE: Green activists on Wednesday filed a complaint with the Pune municipal commissioner Vikas Deshmukh alleging that illegal felling of trees has occurred in the campus of the University of Pune

PUNE: City-based activists on Monday raised objections over cutting of 253 trees in the Swargate area and managed to stall the process undertaken by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), at least f

Year-Long Survey Finds High Pollutant Levels Particularly In Winter

Pune: Breathing in areas such as Hadapsar, Shivajinagar or Katraj, can pose health problems, particularly to those vulnerable to respiratory conditions as pollution levels have been found to be the highest in these parts of the city.

Researchers studying bat species in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra have found that the populations of most species have declined significantly over a decade.

"There has been a massive decline in the numbers of most of the species that we studied. Some of the areas where we had recorded the presence of bat colonies were found to have been deserted. In other areas the roosting sites remained, but there has been a decline in numbers," said Kranti Yardi, associate professor at the Institute of Environment Education and Research at Bharati Vidyapeeth.

Pune: A report from the commissioner, appointed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Pune, to assess the status of trees along the Ghorpadi-Mundhwa Road is in tandem with tree activists’ views abo