India's climate action plan ahead of the United Nations' Paris summit in December will come with sector-specific emphasis on emission reduction.

Solar power is dominating the political landscape in New Delhi despite the plummeting prices of crude oil, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to set up 100 gigawatt solar plants by 2022 has pro

NEW DELHI: The environment ministry may have given scores of forest clearances over the years but it has decided on a definition for 'forest' only now, that too after being prodded by courts.

Green min using 1916 pact to allay apprehensions over hydel projects on Ganga

The environment ministry has given Coal India the go-ahead to expand the Jhanjra underground mining project in West Bengal, one of the few such proposals in recent years, which will help the state

A slew of hydro electric projects planned in Arunachal Pradesh have been denied forest clearance by the Environment ministry after a recent meeting.

While the Narendra Modi government has moved swiftly on a range of environmental issues— approving long-delayed projects, arguably clearing the backlog inherited from the UPA and bringing in proces

The environment ministry has asked stakeholder states to submit their final responses to the K Kasturirangan committee report on the Western Ghats by June 15, telling them that no more extensions w

The ministry of environment and forests is set to revisit the ban on animal dissection and animal experimentation at undergraduate level and restrictions at the postgraduate level, four years after

Paper questions the methodology used by govt to show 30% rise in tiger population

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