Battling environmental challenges and protests, ecotourism operators in several parts of India, have called for building community resilience as they take stock of losses amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.…
India’s pollution watchdog, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), has released guidelines for handling, treatment and safe disposal of biomedical waste generated during treatment, diagnosis and quarantine of patients confirmed…
India’s Ministry of Earth Sciences is considering increasing its budgetary allocation for monsoon research, following a Parliamentary Committee report that finds its present allocation “low.” The Committee in its report…
The national government’s environment ministry has proposed a new set of environment clearance rules which seem to be heavily loaded in favour of the industry. The draft of the Environment…
Climate and land use change are likely to alter plant species richness in the Eastern Ghats in the future, scientists have said, pressing for urgent conservation attention on the region…
Come monsoon, Sardara Singh looks forward to planting Melia composita trees (a wild relative of neem) in his seven-acre plot embedded in an agroforestry mosaic in the north-west Indian state…
A grim prophecy made years ago by climate scientists and experts is coming true now. World over, the effect of disasters is displacing more people as compared to other reasons…
They may be hundreds of kilometres away from the Indian mainland, but the rich forests and the biodiversity in the strategically important Andaman and the Nicobar Islands (ANI) face pressures…
In the West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya, where plains fringe lush green hill slopes, shifting cultivation is the most extensive land-use, followed by tree plantations, while old-growth forest is…
On January 27, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement announced the two winners for 2020. Gretchen C. Daily and Pavan Sukhdev were selected for their work on the global impact…
