As part of its effort to increase and protect green cover in urban areas, the Centre has proposed to develop 200 'city forests' in the country in next five years and launch a 'school nursery' schem

NEW DELHI: The Center on Monday assured MPs from Western Ghats region that the final notification on earmarking 'ecologically sensitive area' (ESA) will incorporate suggestions of all the six state

The National Board for Wildlife (NBW), the apex body which clears projects around protected areas, has okayed 81 proposals in different parts of the country in the past seven months.

Is the Centre under NDA dispensation preparing to change its long-held position that Asiatic lions need a second home outside Gujarat's Gir sanctuary, and instead tilting towards the view of the st

Heads of state may not be part of concluding round of talks during the crucial Paris climate summit in December unlike the Copenhagen conference which failed to clinch a deal despite presence of al

Uncertainties over finance may be taken as a tough nut to crack before signing a global climate deal in Paris, but the major developed and developing countries including India have taken an importa

The G20 leaders summit in Turkey in mid-November will hold the key to the success of the Paris climate talks a fortnight later as the richer ones among these 20 big economies are then expected to c

A parliamentary panel has flagged a number of environment-related issues which, it found, have been causing damage to Mumbai and Visakhapatnam and asked the Union environment ministry and respectiv

With the countries moving step-by-step towards their joint goal to fight impacts of climate change through individual actions, Japan on Monday submitted its post-2020 'climate action plan' to the U

India, which is expected to submit its post-2020 'climate action plan' to a UN body in September, on Tuesday said that the carbon emission cut targets offered by rich nations as part of their respe