The State government is racing against time to file its response to the Centre on the implications of the K Kasturirangan report on Western Ghats, if implemented.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made some rather emphatic and significant statements on international economic and environmental policy in his UN General Assembly speech that were all but lost in the

The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change is setting up a three-member committee to look into the issues surrounding the recent landslide near Pune, Maharashtra.

With the aim to prevent construction activities in Aravalis, including Mangarbani forest, the National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) has asked the Haryana government to address environmenta

The panel, in its previous meetings, had decided to review the state-owned polluting industries set up in the ecologically sensitive zone.

Reports by panchayat panels on Western Ghats lack spatial information.

Slamming the Uttarakhand government for encouraging industrial development in the ecologically sensitive region, environmentalist Anil Prakash Joshi opposed the proliferation of industries in the S

Pune: The notification issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) last month declaring about 60,000 sq km area of the Western Ghats as an eco-sensitive area (ESA) has been further ame

AHMEDABAD: The Statue of Unity project of the Gujarat government has raised concerns over the potential environmental impact on surrounding areas.

Madhav Gadgil, chairman of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP), has said that his report is far from “dead” and the unrest in the State is an aftermath of the “sabotage of democracy” cau