The Environment Ministry has reconstituted the Central Zoo Authority (CZA). The CZA is a statutory body chaired by the Environment Minister and tasked with...
Air Quality Early Warning System for Delhi was launched in Delhi by the Union Environment Minister.
The System is designed to predict extreme air pollution...
Northeast and Assam Petro-chemicals, a state-owned company launched the Asia's first cannisters based and India's first "Methanol Cooking Fuel Program" in Namrup, Assam. The...
Union Minister for Environment released the ‘National REDD+ Strategy India’. In simple terms, REDD+ means “Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation”, conservation of forest...
Japan has issued evacuation advisories for more than a million people as it faces extremely strong winds and heavy rain consequence of typhoon Jebi's...
Drought monitoring is important for characterizing the timing, extent, and severity of drought for effective mitigation and water management.
Researchers at the University of California...
Tropical Storm Kai-Tak has hit the eastern Philippines. Kai-Tak hit the country's third-largest island Samar which was devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan four years...
Wildfires in the forests of southern California are driven by Santa Ana winds. It has displaced the thousands of people from this area.
About 200,000...
Union Minister of Environment chaired the meeting on the issue of tackling air pollution in Delhi-NCR region.
The meeting noted that the air quality in...
Carbon dioxide can be used to extract oil, accelerating the development carbon-capturing technologies and limiting climate change. However, in a new analysis researchers say...
Recently, the 'Trillion Trees Program' was launched by three conservation organizations – BirdLife International, the Wildlife Conservation Society and WWF.
'Trillion Trees Program' is a...
India has the largest participation of people living in the forests towards conservation efforts. National Wildlife Action Plan has been made landscape-based, rather than...
Global Land Outlook (GLO) report by the secretariat of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) was launched in Ordos, China.
This United Nations report warns...
India has ratified the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. This protocol commits countries to contain the emission of greenhouse gases.
India deposited its...
Hurricane Harvey was a tropical cyclone that caused unprecedented and catastrophic flooding in southeastern Texas in USA.
It was the first major hurricane to make...
A Grant Agreement from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) of the World Bank of USD 24.64 million for “Ecosystem Service Improvement Project” was signed...
Genetically modified crops (GMCs, GM crops, or biotech crops) are plants used in agriculture, the DNA of which has been modified using genetic engineering...
Recently, Mount Sinabung on the Indonesian island of Sumatra blasted volcanic ash as high as 4.2 kilometers (2.6 miles).
Hot ash tumbled down the mountain's...
Following is the list agreements that are legally binding for countries that have formally ratified them. These bilateral or sometimes trilateral agreements are only...
Cornell atmospheric scientists have developed the first-of-its-kind, high-resolution Caribbean drought atlas, with data going back to 1950.
Concurrently, the researchers confirmed the region’s 2013-16 drought...
Sierra Leone devastating landslide near the capital Freetown is one of Africa’s worst flooding-related disasters in years occurred when the side of Mount Sugar Loaf...
Typhoon Noru raked Japan's main island of Honshu with heavy rains and strong winds.
An unusually long-lived storm that was briefly a Category 5 typhoon,...
Earth’s surface is divided into two types of crust, continental and oceanic, and into 14 major tectonic plates. A new continent was discovered under...
Recently, Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) has been signed between Green Climate Fund (GCF) and National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).
Several of the...
The National Highways Authority of India has initiated tree plantations along 1,513 km length of National Highways in ten states in 2016.
This includes 390...
According to the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that global mean sea level had risen by 0.19m over...
Average Temperature during last ten years (2007 to 2016) was 26.10 0C. Rise in the average temperature was 0.510C during this period.
Spatial pattern of...
France’s minister of the environment Nicolas Hulot has unveiled a detailed a plan that includes ending the sale of fossil fuel-powered cars by 2040.
The...
The Environment Ministry today approved three projects for climate change adaptation in three states.
The National Steering Committee on Climate Change (NSCCC), under the Chairmanship...
Earthquake - prone areas of the country have been identified on the basis of scientific inputs relating to seismicity, earthquakes occurred in the past...
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a country-wide ban on “Chinese manjha”, a string used in kite flying.
A bench headed by NGT Chairperson...
According to scientists of British Antarctic Survey, one of the biggest icebergs measuring 5,800 square km has broken away from Antarctica.
Ice shelves are extensions...
60 people have been killed in huge forest fires in central Portugal. Portugal’s prime minister, António Costa, described these fires as “the greatest tragedy”. Three...
Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Dr. Harsh Vardhan will lead a month-long drive to plant saplings to mark Van Mahotsav starting...
TRAFFIC India, in conjunction with CBI and INTERPOL has conducted a major wildlife law enforcement training in India. Senior delegates from various enforcement and intelligence...
Trading in wildlife articles is the third largest trade in the world. Wildlife Crime Control Bureau has seized wildlife articles in ‘Wildnet’ operations in Noida...
Land Degradation is a global concern for sustainable development, conservation of biodiversity and mitigating and adapting to climate change. It refers to reduction or...
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has launched a comprehensive Air Quality Index (AQI) and Air Information and Response (AIR) plan that would include an air pollution alert...
The Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) headed by Amita Prasad has approved the commercial release of a herbicide-tolerant GM mustard (Brassica juncea).
The Genetic Engineering Appraisal...
Scientists have discovered a new species of frog from Amazonian Ecuador. Its uniqueness is the transparent skin that is stretching all over its chest as...
Urban areas are usually warmer than their rural surroundings, a phenomenon known as the “heat island effect.” As cities develop, more vegetation is lost...
Severe Cyclonic Storm Mora is a currently active, but weakening tropical cyclone threatening Bangladesh.
Under the influence of a persistent area of convection, a low...
In a first, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, along with the UN Environment OzonAction’s Compliance Assistance Programme, organized an “Ozone2Climate” Technology Roadshow,...
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (Sendai Framework) is the first major agreement of the post-2015 development agenda, with seven targets and...
The World Economic Forum and the Marine Science Institute of University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), have announced a partnership to improve the health...
In the first-ever release of endangered species of vultures eight vultures from the Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre in Panchkula, Haryana was released into the...
A Portland State University researcher discovered that a rabbit known for centuries to exist in South America is different enough from its cousins to...
The United Nations weather agency World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has kicked off of a two-year international effort to close gaps in polar forecasting capacity...
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered prayers at the temple at Narmada Udgam Sthal - the origin of the River Narmada.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
Three sub-species of snow leopard differentiated by geographical location:
1. the Northern group, Panthera uncia irbis, found in the Altai region,
2. the Central group, Panthera uncia...
Israel, one of the most densely populated countries on Earth, turns out to have been harboring an unknown species of butterfly.
Vladimir Lukhtanov, entomologist and...
Colombia has declared an "economic, social and ecological emergency" due to devastating landslide in Mocoa.
The flood came after a night of extremely heavy rain,...
Two new species of parasitic plants have been discovered on the main island of Okinawa, Japan.
They have been named Gastrodia nipponicoides and Gastrodia okinawensis.
Scientists have discovered the first European cave fish. It was found in the north in Southern Germany.
Despite that relatively short period of evolutionary time, the...
An inter-ministerial Indian delegation headed by the Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Ajay Narayan Jha, will participate in the 2017 Conference...
New Zealand's North Island was hit by strong winds from Cyclone Cook. The powerful storm system hit the Bay of Plenty region.
Cook, which forecasters...
South Africa's Constitutional Court has removed a moratorium on the domestic trade in rhino horn.
A global ban in the horn trade, which is regulated...
In Australia, a land of wild extremes, recent flooding caused by Cyclone Debbie has killed at least six people.
Severe Tropical Cyclone Debbie in 2017...
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to roll back his predecessor Barack Obama's climate change measures.
The decree's main target is former...
Mali has become the first country to ratify the Kigali Amendment, a ground-breaking amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase out hydrofluorocarbons, a major...
At present National Centre of Seismology (NCS) , Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), maintains a National Seismological Network (NSN) comprising of 84 (eighty four)...
The Indian Council of Historical Research will undertake a two-month pilot project on 'Ram Setu' this year to archaeologically "ascertain" if the structures were...
Scientists in India have discovered a pair of 1.6 billion-year-old fossils that appear to contain red algae, which may be the oldest plant-like life discovered...
A new frog species was discovered in the Peruvian Andes, has been named after noted British broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough.
The frog is...
The Centre has launched the first ever across-the-river survey in the Ganga to determine the population of aquatic life, including that of the endangered...
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in consultation with Central Pollution Control Board has reclassified the industries into “Red”, “Orange”, “Green” and...
New research demonstrates that the larvae not just contribute in global warming but also in disturbing the sedimentary layers at the bottom of lakes.
Chaoborus...
