Environment
Green panel bars construction under new ministry norms
06 Jan 2017
While there were differences of views on the applicability of exemptions, the new notification on environmental norms for construction projects was ambiguous and propagated a "pay and pollute" policy, the NGT observed
Sun not a key driver of climate change
31 Dec 2016
Climate change has not been strongly influenced by variations in heat from the sun, a new scientific study shows
Obama bans new oil, gas drilling off Alaska
21 Dec 2016
The ban is seen as President Obama’s last push to save environment as incoming President Donald Trump has said he would expand offshore oil and gas drilling
The deepwater horizon aftermath
21 Dec 2016
The deepwater horizon aftermath
21 Dec 2016
India attains 4th position in global wind power installed capacity
19 Dec 2016
With the addition of grid-connected capacity of 14,300 MW of renewable energy capacity in the last two-and-a-half years, the country is well on its way to exceed the target of 40 per cent non-fossil fuel-based power generation by 2030
DuPont to pay $50 mn to help clean up mercury contamination
16 Dec 2016
DuPont has agreed to pay the largest natural resource settlement in Virginia history for mercury contamination, making the settlement the eighth largest-natural resource damage settlement in US history
Chennai limps back day after Cyclone Vardah left 6 dead
13 Dec 2016
The first 'very severe cyclonic storm' to hit the city and the first cyclone in city since 1994, Vardah left 6 people, including 4 women and a 3-year-old child dead in Chennai and another person in Kanchipuram and left 2,810 trees uprooted