Sao Paulo: The world's forests could hold 20 percent more carbon than previously thought, according to a study released on Tuesday.

Areas surrounding Sikkim's three sanctuaries, which are home to carnivores, herbivores, birds and magnificent rhododendron forests, will soon be declared as Eco-Sensitive Zones by the Centre.

Altogether 80,000 individual household toilets have been constructed in Burdwan district during the current financial year, which is a record, a top district official said on Sunday.

Kerala has about 7,000 wild elephants and 100 tigers as per the latest survey on the animal population in the forests, State Forest Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan said here today.

Japan launched a rocket early Friday with a global precipitation monitoring satellite developed by US and Japanese agencies on board, authorities said.

Patrick Moore, co-founder and former member of Greenpeace, has claimed that climate change is not man-made.

Regretting that people still use open toilets all over the country, Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram today stressed the need to expedite and intensify implementation of the total sanitation pro

Delhi government today directed the deputy commissioners to take strict action against complaints of commercial exploitation of ground water, even as it asked the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to re-advert

Agra city would start getting clean water by the end of 2014, a minister said in the state Assembly.

Eleven people have been killed and two others are missing after torrential rain triggered landslides in Indonesia's remote eastern Papua province, an official said on Sunday.