The Supreme Court today granted four more weeks to the Centre for filing "comprehensive" environment and ecological impact report of 24 hydroelectric power projects to be established on Alaknanda a

In view of increasing instances of natural disasters, there is a need for a new strategy for environment and ecological conservation for development in the Himalayan region.

Residents of eight villages near Almora town are protesting against the dumping of garbage by the Almora Nagar Palika Parishad near their homes and cattle grazing grounds.

Thirty-one government schools in Bageshwar district have failed to construct toilets for their students despite a 2012 Supreme Court order instructing all state-run schools to build toilets within

At least seven permissions for sand mining, many of them given last year, were found to be in violation of norms laid down by the Union ministry of environment and forests.

Bageshwar town, the headquarters of Bageshwar district, has no sewers.

Canal blocking an exercise in futility; no repairs, no cleaning

The utilisation of renewable energy will have to be maximised in order to ensure adequate food supply for a rising population in the face of agricultural land and other resources decreasing at an a

After being pulled up by the Uttarakhand high court for not implementing central government orders on sand mining, the state government on Thursday assured the court that it will enforce all regula

Large scale hydro power projects being built on the Ganga and its sub-tributaries such as Bhagirathi, Alaknanda, Dhaulli Ganga, Kanchan Ganga, Pindar, Mandakini and Nandakini are major factors affe