New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued bailable warrants against State Environment Minister Bijayashree Routray and the ASI chief over non-appearance of anyone on their behalf to r

ओड़िशा के जगन्नाथ पुरी मंदिर के पास पर्यावरणीय प्रदूषण होने पर नेशनल ग्रीन ट्रिब्यूनल (एनजीटी) ने ओड़िशा के पर्यावरण मंत्री व एएसआइ मुखिया के खिलाफ जमानती वारंट जारी किया है। एनजीटी अध्यक्ष जस्टिस

Minister for Science, Technology and Environment Uma Kant Jha has stressed on the need to provide clean cookstoves to every household in the country so that traditional stoves could be replaced as

New Delhi: There is some fresh evidence of around 100 of trees having been cut in and around Mangar Bani in the Aravalis even as the ministry of environment and forest has asked the Haryana chief secretary to identify it and other such areas that are deemed forests.

Green activists who took photographs of the freshly cut tree stumps, which have not yet started sprouting shoots, said that photos show tyre tracks, suggesting a large scale operation. “Only thicker and older trees are targeted for their trunks. The branches are mostly left behind, suggesting this is not subsistence cutting by villagers for firewood, but a commercially oriented operation,” Sarvadaman Oberoi of Mission Gurgaon Development said.

The government has moved to bring about some changes in the existing Brick Burning Act, 1989 that includes protection of environment, stopping of indiscriminate use of agricultural lands and forest

ITANAGAR: Even as the Arunachal Pradesh government has launched the ‘Green Arunachal’ campaign in recent time to protect the State’s greenery, a recent census report revealed that half of the State’s population is still dependent on forest for their livelihood.

As many as 68.7 per cent of the total population in the State are still dependent on firewood for cooking purpose besides selling in the market for their livelihood, according to a report of house listing data of census of India 2011.

The Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have joined hands to promote renewable energy technologies to enhance biodiversity conse

A government scientist said on Friday that air quality in New Delhi has worsened this week and is now "very poor," although it should not be compared to China's capital which has been reeling recen