Only 6.4 per cent and eight per cent of Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste households are using clean fuel in rural parts.

A report by the International Institute of Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, shows that the per capita emission of carbon dioxide by urban households is a shocking 16 times more than rural households. Experts say as households become richer, they consume more energy, leading to more carbon dioxide emission.

Work on a building on the IIT-Madras campus is going on despite the National Green Tribunal order to stop all construction work in the green zone.

While popular opinion states that Western Ghats are a source of capturing rainfall and water resources, a series of studies conducted by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has shown that rainfa

Locals of Basaha-7, remote belt of the district have started to construct 1.5-kilometre road section from Basaha to Khotangre Tole at the VDC in their own initiation by raising funds at the local l

Legal hurdles coming in the way of the under-construction 16-lane expressway from the Delhi-Gurgaon border to Sector 55-56 seems to have been resolved with the National Green Tribunal (NGT) giving

Under sharp criticism for ignoring planting of trees to compensate for the chopped ones for road widening, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) gave Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) thr

New Delhi: Environmentalists have been warning about growing encroachments on the Yamuna floodplains being a recipe for disaster.

Large-scale deforestation, reckless cutting of hills, illegal mining, poor management of waste, falling groundwater tables, preservation and quality of forests, biodiversity loss and land/soil degr

Challenges such as extreme weather, rising seas and worsening scarcity of drinking water are forcing many Asian governments to confront the changes being wrought by a warming planet even as some po

Environmental activist Sandip Bhavar has sent a legal notice to Nashik municipal commissioner Sanjay Khandare, accusing that the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC)'s Tree Committee (TC) was "improp