Environment
Quake in Iran-Iraq border leaves over 200 dead, thousands injured
13 Nov 2017
The quake hit 30 kilometres southwest of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan at around 9.20 pm, when many people would have been at home, making it deadlier
NGT to study odd-even scheme as Delhi breathes just a little easier
10 Nov 2017
Delhi’s air quality remained “severe” for the fourth consecutive day this morning, although visibility as well as particulate matter levels seemed to show some improvementas the minimum visibility stood at 400 metres, better than Thursday’s 200 metres
Delhi caught in a bind with no improvement in air quality
09 Nov 2017
The National Human Rights Commission today said it was alarmed at the life-threatening level pollution in Delhi-NCR, while issuing notices to the centre and governments of Punjab and Haryana "on their action plan to tackle it"
Cleaning up aquatic pollution with mussels
08 Nov 2017
Delhi shuts primary schools as smog envelops NCR
07 Nov 2017
India is pushing hard for a cleaner environment at the global talks on climate change while smog has forced capital Delhi to shut
All eyes on US as Bonn climate meet gets under way
06 Nov 2017
Participants in the 12-day climate conference will include leaders and diplomats from 195 nations, as well as scientists, lobbyists and environmentalists – and US President Donald Trump’s avowed climate scepticism is causing worry
Newly discovered orangutan species is 'among the most threatened great apes in the world'
06 Nov 2017
There are only about 800 Tapanuli orangutans left, under threat from loss of lowland habitat and hunting, which makes this newly discovered species among the most threatened great ape species in the world
Ozone layer berhole is shrinking: NASA
06 Nov 2017
How toxic air clouds mental health
04 Nov 2017
Air pollution killed over 5 lakh Indians in 2015
31 Oct 2017
The advent of 'green' cattle
31 Oct 2017
Climate change may slowly starve bamboo lemurs
28 Oct 2017
Tropical forest reserves slow down global warming
27 Oct 2017
National parks and nature reserves in South America, Africa and Asia, created to protect wildlife, heritage sites and the territory of indigenous people, are reducing carbon emissions from tropical deforestation by a third, and so are slowing the rate of global warming, a new study shows