Ruling out any cause of concern over the oil spill from a sunk cargo vessel off the Mumbai coast, Union Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Monday said that her ministry is “constantly monit

Environmentalists say spill will affect mangroves

Authorities said on Monday that the oil spill from the bulk carrier mv Rak that sank recently is a minor incident, but environmentalists nonetheless said that its timing was a cause for concern, especially in the context of mangroves' ecology.

MUMBAI: The city's fishing community, glued to television screens since Thursday, when the MV Rak Carrier sank with over 60,000 tonnes of coal and 343 tonnes of oil, became extremely worried on Sun

Varad Giri is the deputy director (collections) of the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), an organisation working for conservation of nature for the last 127 years.

Garnier and The Times of India joint initiative Take Care Take Charge ended on a high note with thousands of volunteers undertaking environment friendly activities to commemorate TCTC Day.

Bombay Natural History Society has conducted the survey in wildlife sanctuaries in and around the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve
A field survey on the vulture population in the wildlife sanctuaries in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve and adjacent sanctuaries, conducted by the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), has found that the number of these bird species is declining at an alarming rate in the reg

Mumbai: Wildlife activists are outraged that three weeks after forest officials rescued a leopard from Uran, the big cat medically certified as

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MUMBAI: A study carried out in India has shown that the ban on veterinary drug diclofenac, blamed for the diminishing vulture populationin south Asia , seems to be effective, with the proportion of cattle carcasses contaminated with diclofenac declining by over 40% between 2006 and 2008.

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Environment minister Jairam Ramesh is not averse to controversy.