The dip in the mercury, over the last few days, has resulted in an increase in the air pollution level in the city.

Infosys has been awarded the National Energy Conservation Award 2012 for its energy conservation efforts at the company’s campus in Jaipur and Pune.

The Government today informed the Lok Sabha that the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) has recommended that there is need to ban diesel vehicles in Delhi to prevent th

The first global vaccine for the prevention of dengue, the outbreak-prone fatal viral disease, is in the final stages of development.

From the sky, the Garden City of Bangalore now looks more smoggy compared to other mega cities in the subcontinent, thanks to rising levels of tiny soot particles in the atmosphere from vehicle and

It was a shivery Monday morning form Punekars with the city recording 7.9 degrees Celsius, its lowest temperature so far this winter.

Pune, the second-largest city in Maharashtra after Mumbai, offers a shining example of what a city can do to manage the growing menace of garbage as it urbanises at a rapid pace.

Farmers demand . 3,000/tonne as first installment of cane price – double the state’s FRP
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The state government has proposed a new social forestry policy to be implemented in non-forest areas to increase green cover.

“In Maharashtra, there is 19 to 20 per cent of forest land. The social forestry department has decided to provide green cover to 80 per cent of the non-forest area and will elicit cooperation from local self-government bodies in this endeavour,” officials in the department said. Water Conservation Minister Nitin Raut, who holds the charge of social forestry, has appointed a study group headed by former Chief Secretary Arun Bongirwar to formulate the policy.

THE National Green Tribunal will begin the final hearing of Lavasa Corporation Limited’s appeal challenging the conditions imposed by the Ministry of Environment and Forests from December 4 on a da