The fragile Himalayan ecosystem is in poor health.

HARIDWAR: Taking a stern view of the non-implementation of the plastic ban order by the Haridwar district administration, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) during a hearing on Tuesday told the admi

While the State Government claims to be working on conservation of environment, planned development and boosting tourism in Uttarakhand, the number of slum settlements across the State present a pi

Nodal officers and resource persons from five stakeholder States have presented their proposed models along with costs to be included in the final detailed project report for forestry interventions

Uttarakhand has space for just 100 more tigers. The state already has 340 tigers as per the latest 2014 All-India tiger census report.

National Green Tribunal chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar has reportedly expressed displeasure over the "slow pace of work being done" in the implementation of its order of complete plastic ban i

DEHJRADUN: National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Uttarakhand government to furnish explanation before it on why helicopters are flying so low over the Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary (KWLS) a

Notwithstanding increasing number of dengue cases in the State capital, the district medical and health department appears in a non-active mode.

In a bid to ensure that Ganga ghats are clean, the Haridwar municipal corporation, which had been rapped sometime back for not implementing the NGT-enforced plastic ban near the river, is now ropin

The forest department is working on getting ready two enclosures, one at Chidiyapur range of Haridwar Forest Division and the other at Haldwani Forest Division, to trap and sterilize monkeys.