MUMBAI: With few open spaces and an almost insatiable demand for commercial and residential buildings, the city is usually a major worry for environmentalists.

MUMBAI: The growing risk of climate change in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) due to ever-increasing carbon emissions and fast-depleting agricultural and forest land can be curtailed provided

Mumbai: The state government will collect waste plastic from school children, besides NGOs and housing societies, to mix with bitumen for road construction, public works department (PWD) officials

Even as India crosses 5000MW solar power generation this year, Maharashtra, the largest power-producing state in the country, lagged behind in extracting electricity from the sun .

MUMBAI: Nearly 40% of deaths registered among girls (0 to 6 years) in the city between 2010 and 2014 have been due to lack of proper nutrition, revealed a central government report.

MUMBAI: The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and National Green Tribunal (NGT) have said that cell-tower radiations are not a "pollutant" or a health hazard if cell towers strictly adhere to

MUMBAI: The state government has decided to set up a plant to treat water from the polluted Mithi river before it reaches the Mahim bay area.

Failure on the part of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in getting noise norms implemented in new vehicles recently resulted in an official of its being issued a bailable warrant.

Mumbai on Thursday figured among the ten cities in the world that will be taken up by the Bloomberg Philanthropies, a New York-based foundation, to adopt best of the Road Safety practices worldwide

For the much-awaited 34-km coastal road linking Cuffe Parade and Marve to become a reality, the Maharashtra government will have to promise the Centre that it would retain its sanctity by not pushi