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

High pollution levels lead to brittle bones, fracture risk: study

10 Nov 2017

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

Cities can cut greenhouse gas emissions far beyond their urban borders

09 Nov 2017

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

South India has reason to smile as Delhi, north choke on smog

07 Nov 2017

Artificial sweeteners in groundwater indicate contamination from septic systems

07 Nov 2017

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

Global biodiversity conservation does save species, but could be done smarter

06 Nov 2017

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

China denies plan to build 1,000-km tunnel to divert Brahmaputra

31 Oct 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