Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi will address the global celebrations of World Environment Day 2018 at New Delhi tomorrow. Prime Minister will also visit the exhibition set up on the occasion at Rajpath lawns. The theme for this year’s World Environment Day is ‘Beat Plastic
On May 29, up to 40 people were reportedly killed as thunderstorms and heavy winds struck parts of Uttar Pradesh (UP), Bihar, and Jharkhand, causing trees to fall and houses to collapse. This takes the total death toll from extreme weather events to over 200
Himachal Pradesh High Court on May 21, 2018 took sou motu notice of the crisis and questioned the Municipal Commissioner on what immediate steps were being taken to provide relief o the residents. The Bench headed by Chief Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Ajay Mohan
International Day for Biological Diversity The United Nations has proclaimed May 22 The International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues. When first created by the Second Committee of the UN General Assembly in late 1993, 29 December (the
Noting that energy consumption has shifted to non-OECD countries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said India will be a key driver of energy demand in the next two to five years. Speaking at the 16th International Energy Forum Ministerial Meeting, the PM stressed need
India Meteorological Department has issued severe weather warning for the five days as below: 07 April (Day 1):♦ Heavy rain very likely at isolated places over Meghalaya. ♦ Thunderstorm accompanied with squall and hail very likely at isolated places over Gangetic West Bengal, Jharkhand and
Highlights Upcoming Hot Weather Season (April to June-AMJ) is expected to have the above normal sub-divisional average seasonal temperatures (maximum, minimum and mean) over most of the meteorological sub-divisions of the country except the subdivisions of eastern, east central and southern parts for the country
A stakeholder consultation workshop to discuss market mechanism under Paris Agreement was held in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change today. The focus of the consultation workshop was to discuss the features, design and safeguards of the new market mechanism that will be
The Pacific Ocean is being treated like a giant dumpster — and it’s starting to look like one, too. A “floating” island of trash dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) now stretches 600,000 square miles, according to a study published Thursday in Scientific Reports. It’s more
On the recent Kurangani Forest Fires in Tamil Nadu, a Chennai based publication on 13th March, 2018 quoting the Director General Forests and Special Secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), had reported that fire-alerts of Forest Survey of India did