The Local Met office on Tuesday issued a “yellow” alert from July 4 to 8 for heavy rains, thunderstorms and lightning at isolated places over plains, low and...
Tag - Environment
The first edition of ‘Goa Environmental Film Festival’ GEFF) kicked off on Saturday with the Oscar winning documentary ‘The Elephant...
Humans have crossed seven of the nine “safe limits” that allow for human life on earth, according to a new study. In 2009, a team of global...
Three ardent soccer fans have cycled all the way from Cape Town, South Africa, to Doha, Qatar to cheer for Argentina at the World Cup in Qatar, which kicks off...
The 9th annual India Sweden Innovation Day 2022 concluded successfully on October 27. The day-long event was organised in association with the Embassy of India...
Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Tuesday said that this year the pollution level in the national capital was the lowest after Diwali compared to the...
Just a week ahead of Diwali, the Air Quality Index (AQI) of the national capital has dipped to the ‘poor’ category, and in some areas it was...
Climate change and ill-planned human interventions in the Himalayas have accentuated the vulnerability of the hills to disasters, resulting in a manifold...
Gujarat is witnessing heavy rain since the onset of the monsoon season and the rainfall has wreaked havoc in several parts of the state...
While tobacco is harmful for human health, it also causes severe damage to the environment. The costs of cleaning up littered tobacco products fall on...
Delhi has received 69.8 mm rainfall in January this year so far — the exact amount the city had received in the first month of 1995 — data from the...
European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Matthias Maurer connected live to a session at the Davos Agenda 2022 from the International Space Station (ISS)...
Providing some respite from the coldwave being witnessed for the past few days, Delhi on Thursday recorded a maximum temperature of 19-degree Celsius —...
The Centre is making efforts to provide relief to people from air, water and noise pollution, Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Friday...
Astronomers from Curtin University, as part of an international team, have produced the most comprehensive images of the nearest active black hole to earth...
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Commission have launched an observatory to reduce emission of methane gas into the atmosphere. UNEP said...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed global efforts to combat climate change and the forthcoming COP26 at a bilateral meeting with his Singaporean...
In the National Tribal Dance Festival being held in Raipur, tribal artists portrayed their love for nature through Karma dance on the second day of the...
Delhi will become the first city in the country to have the highest number of electric autos running on its roads as registrations for 4,261 such vehicles have...
Waterlogging has been reported from several parts of the national capital including Moti Bagh and RK Puram in south Delhi after rains lashed the city Saturday...
America”s Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry would travel to India next week during which the two countries would launch the Climate...
The Supreme Court Thursday stayed a National Green Tribunal order constituting a fresh six-member committee to fix responsibility for the failures of the...
The two power utilities of West Bengal on Monday claimed that they are better prepared for Cyclone Yaas, which is likely to hit the state and Odisha on May 26...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a meeting, which will be attended by key ministers and officials, on Sunday to review preparations to deal with the...
BJP president J P Nadda on Sunday interacted with party leaders from coastal states which are likely to be affected by cyclone Tauktae, and said that saffron...
Earth Day is observed on April 22 every year and dedicated to Mother Earth. The theme for Earth Day 2021 is Restore Our Earth and it focuses on natural...
President Joe Biden returned the United States to the worldwide fight to slow global warming in one of his first official acts and immediately launched a...
In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists have assessed the influence of human activities on extreme fire weather risk, and found that greenhouse gas emissions...
Delhi”s air quality remained “very poor” on Saturday morning and emission from firecrackers and calm winds may push it to the “severe” zone, according to...
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on November 9 imposed a total ban on sale or use of all kinds of firecrackers in the National Capital Region (NCR) from the...
An Indian organisation that leverages tourism and technology to help remote communities access solar energy has won a prestigious UN award for its efforts to...