Environment

Researchers find world forest carbon stocks overestimated

25 Jan 2016

Centre tightens effluent discharge norms for sugar mills

23 Jan 2016

Government shuts 150 polluting units along Ganga

21 Jan 2016

2015 hottest year since 1880; easily beats 2014 record

21 Jan 2016

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the average temperature across the globe was 0.9 Celsius above the 20th century average. Corroborating the findings, space agency NASA said the change was largely human-made

To clean up ocean plastics focus on coasts, not the Great Pacific garbage patch: study

20 Jan 2016

After VW, Renault to cut diesel emissions

19 Jan 2016

Renault’s sales have suffered after the French government named the company among auto makers that sold cars in violation of pollution standards – but authorities added that it hasn’t actually cheated on emission tests

Can Mumbai have odd-even car scheme, asks HC

16 Jan 2016

SC slams pleas against Delhi’s odd-even scheme

14 Jan 2016

81 whales stranded, over 45 die on Tamil coast

13 Jan 2016

Experts blame undersea activity for the beaching of the short-finned pilot whales on the shore of a village in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin district. Local fishermen and wildlife authorities managed to tow 36 of the whales back to sea

India sitting on earthquake of Himalayan proportions

08 Jan 2016

The home ministry’s disaster management experts have warned that the recent earthquakes in Sikkim, Manipur and Nepal have created tectonic strains that could result in quakes larger than 8.2 on the Richter scale

Mumbai finds novel way to convert waste into fuel pallets and bricks

07 Jan 2016

India to jump from BS-IV to BS-VI fuel from 2020

07 Jan 2016

Global warming likely cause of Siberia’s mystery craters

07 Jan 2016

Images of the giant craters in Siberia, around 1 km in diameter, have gone viral on the social media, attributed to everything from meteorite strikes to aliens. But latest investigations say they are due to global warming and the release of greenhouse gas methane

Supreme Court upholds ban on sale of diesel vehicles in Delhi

05 Jan 2016

Delhi pollution sees fresh spike despite odd-even scheme

05 Jan 2016

At least 6 killed as 6.7 magnitude quake hits northeast

04 Jan 2016

Apart from reports of six deaths so far, dozens were injured in the scramble to escape buildings in India and Bangladesh after they were woken by the early morning tremor

Odd-even formula fails to improve Delhi air quality

02 Jan 2016

Odd-even formula fails to improve Delhi air quality

02 Jan 2016

Stricter vehicle emission norms likely to be put off

31 Dec 2015

Cabinet approves Rs5,000-cr subsidy for solar rooftops

31 Dec 2015

The cabinet decision will help provide subsidies for residential and institutional solar rooftop power generation and ensure speedy payment by power distribution companies to roof-top power suppliers

Delhi all set to implement odd-even scheme

29 Dec 2015

Chinese official ends life after landslide disaster

28 Dec 2015

US south hit by severe tornadoes, 11 killed

26 Dec 2015

Humans began altering natural world 6,000 years ago

23 Dec 2015

New research finds that human activity had reached a tipping point 6,000 years ago, as hunting and farming had by then impacted the natural world in irreversible ways - changes that have continued to increase to this day