After the startling revelation about a Haldwani reserve forest area being used as a dumping ground came to the fore, the forest department and the Haldwani-Kathgodam Municipal Corporation have coll

Dehradun: Chief minister Harish Rawat on Tuesday announced that the state government will formulated its policy on mining modeled on the Center's upcoming policy on it.

Uttarakhand is now second only to Karnataka in tiger density, the new tiger census released by the Ministry of Environment and Forests on Tuesday has revealed.

Dehradun: The state-owned Doiwala Sugar Company Limited (DSCL) is in trouble as the state level committee has found the plant is flouting green norms repeatedly.

Dehradun: Forest minister Dinesh Agrawal has cautioned the forest department to prevent underutilization of CAMPA funds in the next financial year.

In a first, environmental experts, state government and NGOs will unite for a common cause to protecting wildlife and its habitat in the state.

On July 10, 2009, the Supreme Court ruled that a Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) would be set up, so that there is proper monitoring of compensatory affore

The Shyampur range of the Haridwar forest division, which should ideally be conserved, has turned into a dumping ground. Garbage from the entire Haridwar town is dumped here.

A week after the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) declared a 100-km stretch from Gaumukh to Uttarkashi in Uttarkashi district as an eco-sensitive zone, the Uttarakhand Cabinet on Sunday p

HARIDWAR: After activists against environmental degradation and some spiritual leaders took up the matter of the large scale of illegal sand quarrying on the Ganga riverbed, the Haridwar district a

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