Himalayan wild animals are being compelled to leave their natural habitats due to encroachment by people in the higher meadows to pick wonder drug yarsa gumba.

Defending the Centre, Javadekar stated that taking such a decision was not the Centre’s prerogative, adding the Environment Ministry acted as per the law.

India's quest for green energy has crossed a major milestone, with renewable plants, mainly wind and solar, surpassing the capacity of large hydroelectricity projects, which were once the country's

Union minister for women and child development Maneka Gandhi’s comments on Thursday, accusing the environment ministry of showing “lust to kill animals”, snowballed into a major stand-off between t

With Union Ministers Maneka Gandhi and Prakash Javadekar locking horns over culling of animals including nilgai, animal rights bodies today expressed "shock" over the Environment Ministry's stand s

Questions are being raised over the state government and the forest department sanctioning the felling of over 15,000 trees - like jacaranda, fir and gulmohur -- ostensibly for the widening of the

According to new WHO figures, 16 of the world's 30 most polluted cities are in India.

The National Green Tribunal has chided the Environment Ministry and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for cutting trees for widening of Rampur—Rudrapur—Kathgodam section of NH—87, whi