Forest fragmentation can have detrimental effects on the flora and fauna, leading to a loss of biodiversity

Lethal infections are killing off populations of creatures ranging from vultures to kangaroos, from coral to honeybees and from amphibians to reptiles. More than pollution, diseases spread by humans

Eight countries decide that it is time to have uniform standards for vehicular emissions

Development Programme (UNDP) will provide assistance worth US $2.55 million to India for large-scale adoption of high-yielding hybrid rice technology. The initiative is part of the Food Security

"Biological pollution" threatens biodiversity

high levels of plutonium has been found in sediments at the end of Sellafield nuclear discharge pipeline. It even exceeds plutonium contamination levels found in the sea at Russia's Novaya

The setting up of a task force may streamline and coordinate the various environment related activities of the UN

the environment is an important top-of-the-mind concern, particularly in urban India and China, says an inter

There has been an alarming rise in cases of childhood cancers in the last two decades. According to reports in Environmental Health Perspectives and The Ecologist, this has been attributed to

the population division of the United Nations' (un) economic and social affairs department has recently predicted that the world population may reach nearly 9.4 billion by the year 2050 and

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