Pune: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) recently shortlisted the Western Ghats for inclusion in the World Heritage list, taking this biodiversity rich area a step closer to protection from landuse change and other developmental activities.

The 39 serial sites in the Unesco shortlist include four sites in Maharashtra (Sahyadri)

New Delhi Jairam Ramesh-led ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has tied up with Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) to set up a National Centre for Marine Biodiversity in Jamnagar, the first research institute in the public private partnership (PPP) mode.

LUCKNOW: In an effort to conserve biodiversity in the state, grasslands will be developed and managed in the best possible manner. Speaking on the occasion of International Biodiversity Day on Sunday, state forest minister Fateh Bahadur Singh said that the staggering green cover of Uttar Pradesh is a challenge to the forest department.

Rules should reflect reality says C. Achalender Reddy, Secretary, National Biodiversity Authority

COIMBATORE: State forest departments should keep pace with the changes happening in the society and their rules should reflect the reality, said C.

On the eve of the World Biodiversity Day, which will be observed on Sunday, city-based environmentalists and activists raised their concerns about Pune

The Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy, and Atomic Energy Commission Chairman, Srikumar Banerjee, on Friday denied suggestions that the design of the nuclear power reactors proposed to be installed at Jaitapur was untested.

In an interactive session at the National Physical Laboratory here, he contended that the reactors were based on an evolutionary design.
Drawing analogy with the automo

A projected spate of extinctions of animals and plants this century may be less drastic than feared because the most widely used scientific method can exaggerate losses by more than 160 percent, a study said on Wednesday.

"Extinctions caused by habitat loss require greater loss of habitat than previously thought," two experts, based in China and the United States, wrote in the journal Nature.