Even as India has managed to increase its forest cover to over 20 per cent of its total geographical area, forest fires are a leading cause of degradation of the forest cover in the country says this new report released by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change

Source-wise clean air action plan and compliance strategy for Delhi and NCR to meet clean air standards: Strategies to reduce vehicle numbers on roads, Action to reduce vehicular emissions, Non-motorized transport (NMT)network,.

India has become the first country in the world to develop this draft blueprint outlining action plan to bring down cooling requirement and refrigerant demands across sectors by 20 per cent to 25 per cent by 2037-38 while slashing cooling energy requirements by 25 per cent to 40 per cent within the same period. It was released by the Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan.

The Central Asian Flyway (CAF), one among the nine flyways in the world, encompasses overlapping migration routes over 30 countries for different waterbirds linking their northern most breeding grounds in Russia (Siberia) to the southernmost non-breeding (wintering) grounds in West and South Asia, the Maldives and the British Indian Ocean Territ

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change issues the Draft Island Coastal Regulation Zone (ICRZ) Notification, 2018 for seeking comments/suggestions from all cocerned.

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2006 imposing certain restrictions and prohibitions on new projects or activities, or on the expansion or modernization of existing projects or activities based on their potential environmental impacts as indicated in the S

The notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Environment and Forests number S.O.20 (E), dated the 6th January, 2011 (hereinafter referred to as the Island Protection Zone Notification, 2011), the Central Government declared certain coastal stretches of the Middle Andaman, North Andaman, South Andaman and Greater Nicobar and ent

The following draft rules further to amend the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986 which the Central Government proposes 10 issue in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 6 and 25 of the Environment

The Central Government makes the following rules further to amend the Environment (Protection) Rules. 1986. namely: These rules may be called the Environment (Protection) Amendment Rules, 2018.