In "Tunnel Vision blocks neutrino lab progress" (Feb 23), T Jayaraman, a physicist by training and professor at the school of habitat studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, said opposition to

The Madras high court has directed the tahsildar of Alandur to consider and take suitable action on a petition alleging widespread encroachment near Putheri lake in Pallavaram municipality.

The Madras high court has asked the Union and state forest ministries, Coastal Security Group, Indian Coast Guard, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute and the Tamil Nadu Coastal Zone Manage

CHENNAI: An estimated 5 lakh visitors and hundreds of unauthorised hawkers turned Marina Beach into a dumping ground, leaving behind more than 50 tonnes of plastic, paper and wet waste on three day

The southern bench of the National Green Tribunal has passed an interim injunction restraining the Tamil Nadu government from cutting trees on the Cauvery riverbed in Thanjavur district, from Kumba

CHENNAI: Olive Ridley turtles are finding it tougher to nest on the city's beaches with each passing year, having to elude fishing nets, find their way through piles of garbage and past illegal con

CHENNAI: A month from today will mark a decade since the tsunami devastated the country's eastern shoreline, including the city's coast, and vast parts of South Asia, killing more than 2,30,000 peo

Rising air pollution in Chennai is making more people sick with respiratory illnesses, especially chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), say experts.

Despite transmission issues, problems of deliberate shutting of plants and irregular payments of dues to companies by the state electricity utility, 107MW of wind power was added in Tamil Nadu over

246 SPECIES, INCLUDING RARE BABY FIRE RING, SPOTTED