Environment

A giant quake may lurk under Bangladesh and beyond

19 Jul 2016

Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory scientists say they have new evidence of increasing strain beneath Bangladesh, where two tectonic plates underlie the world’s largest river delta

NGT orders diesel vehicles 10 years and older out of New Delhi's roads

18 Jul 2016

The National Green Tribunal, India's apex environmental court, has ordered authorities in the national capital Delhi to remove all diesel vehicles that are 10 years and older out of the city's streets

Biodiversity falls below ‘safe levels’ globally

18 Jul 2016

UK government scraps department for climate change action

16 Jul 2016

New tool calculates emissions impacts, energy benefits from smart grid investments

16 Jul 2016

US drones to bombard ferrets with vaccine-laced M&Ms

15 Jul 2016

Obama administration unveils rules for drilling in Arctic

08 Jul 2016

Facebook to pilot test offline videos from 11 July

08 Jul 2016

In an attempt to beat the problems associated with poor or expensive mobile internet access, Facebook will start testing a new video download feature in India

India to be key driver in global green bonds market

05 Jul 2016

Bond buyers are eager to capitalise on climate-related initiatives, and an increase in sales from Indian issuers could also help spur the dollar-bond market as a whole, says Bloomberg

Environmental toxins affect brain development

02 Jul 2016

Scientists observe first signs of healing in the Antarctic ozone layer

02 Jul 2016

Researchers have found that the September ozone hole has shrunk by more than 4 million square kilometers — about half the area of the contiguous United States — since 2000, when ozone depletion was at its peak

SC may lift ban on 2000 cc vehicles with special levy

01 Jul 2016

Spread of Central California wildfire being contained, sayd officials

28 Jun 2016

Bihar rains kill 38 in 24 hours, toll likely to rise

22 Jun 2016

US grocery chain agrees to plug greenhouse gas leaks from refrigeration equipment nationwide

22 Jun 2016

Monsoon covers 90% of drought-hit Maharashtra, set to enter central India

20 Jun 2016

SC refuses to stay culling of boar, nilgai, monkeys

20 Jun 2016

18 Gir lions indicted over eating people

16 Jun 2016

French president Francois Holande ratifies Paris climate deal

16 Jun 2016

UK scientists to deploy robots in Bay of Bengal to study effect of ocean conditions on rainfall patterns

14 Jun 2016

Monsoon advances rapidly across south, looms over Goa

11 Jun 2016

The onset was delayed by seven days, but by the time monsoon advances over central India, the delay will have reduced to a few days, and that way, it may reach north and northwest India in time, according to IMD

Kerala HC stays NGT order against diesel vehicles

11 Jun 2016

Air pollution emerges as leading risk factor for stroke

11 Jun 2016

An analysis of global trends of risk factors for stroke between 1990-2013 shows that over 90 per cent of the burden of stroke is linked to modifiable risk factors such as smoking, poor diet and low physical activity