Residents of eight villages near Almora town are protesting against the dumping of garbage by the Almora Nagar Palika Parishad near their homes and cattle grazing grounds.

Environment minister Prakash Javadekar released the biennial report “India State of Forest Report 2013” on Tuesday.

About a quarter of India's land is turning to desert and degradation of agricultural areas is becoming a severe problem, the environment minister said, potentially threatening food security in the

The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), a statutory body under ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) monitoring tiger reserves, has gone against its own guidelines by recommending

It will override legislations such as KIADB Act, BDA Act, KHB Act and others

The State government is likely to finalise rules and regulations under the new Central legislation - Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, - in the next three to four days. A notification in this regard will be issued shortly, calling for public objections before gazetting the rules.

A war of words appears to be brewing between Gujarat billionaire Gautam Adani, who heads the Adani Group, and environmentalists over the business tycoon’s assertion that not a single acre of land h