BENGALURU: Forest fires have reduced 35,891 acres to cinders in Karnataka in the past five years, and the year 2019 has taken the lead with the blaze in Bandipur National Park razing 15,000 acres.

BENGALURU: Three years ago when there was fear that a growing glacial lake behind south Lhonak Glacier in Sikkim could touch off glacial outburst floods, it's the Divecha Centre for Climate Change

BENGALURU: Bengaluru doesn’t have a beach or desert nearby. Yet, sand constitutes most of the road dust, contributing prominently to air pollution in the city.

NIMLI (RAJASTHAN): Toxicity level in Bengaluru’s air is increasing at an alarming rate.

BENGALURU: Key posts pertaining to prevention and awareness of monkey fever have remained vacant in Shivamogga, Uttara Kannada and Dakshina Kannada districts, where field stations have been set up

BENGALURU: Kaggadasapura Lake, near CV Raman Nagar in east Bengaluru, on Wednesday began frothing, sending foam flying into the neighbourhood.

BENGALURU: HD Kumaraswamy-led coalition government has mooted to scrap the social impact study prior to making land acquisition for key public and infrastructure projects in Karnataka.

BENGALURU: Pedestrians accounted for nearly 40% of all road accident fatalities in Bengaluru in 2018, according to traffic police data.

BENGALURU: Rejuvenation of 27 lakes managed by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is likely to be completed by March, taking the total number of revived water bodies under the Palike’s a

BENGALURU: The Karnataka forest department has decided to root out plastic from its nurseries.