The new specimen from the rich Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota (approximately 131 to 120 million years old) is referred to as Eoconfuciusornis, the oldest...
Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, vide their notification GSR 889E dated 16.09.2016, has mandated mass emission standard for BS-VI throughout the country with...
Around 50 countries and territories of the Americas at a United Nations-supported conference in Montreal, Canada, agreed a Regional Action Plan to better protect their...
Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave has launched the Stage-II of Phase Out Management Plan of Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HPMP).
Minister also discussed the implementation of HPMP Stage II,...
In a massive government-run reforestation campaign, the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in Pakistan has grown 750 million trees.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, or KP, launched the four-year...
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in latest report warns that the tiny plastic particles washed off products like synthetic clothing and car...
Two new species of balsams (impatiens) have been discovered by the officials from the shola forests on the periphery of the Eravikulam National Park...
According to a study published journal Nature Climate Change, small natural ponds pose an overlooked danger for speeding up global warming.
Scientists in Britain found that...
According to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by NASA scientists, January 2017 was the third warmest January in 137 years of modern record-keeping.
January...
Researchers have found two new endemic genera and a new species of songbird in Western Ghats of India.
Researchers has designated two new genera, the...
Science Express Climate Action Special (SECAS II) was flagged off from Safdarjung Railway station in Delhi.
The SECAS II will run from February 17 to...
Researchers provided a fresh insights into the "Great Oxidation Event" (GOE), in which oxygen first appeared in the Earth's atmosphere more than 2.3 billion...
According to researchers, as the climate changes and fisheries transform the oceans, the world's African penguins are in trouble.
According to them, young penguins aren't...
Scientists have used the world's largest array of seismic sensors to map a deep-Earth area of melting carbon covering 1.8 million square kilometres.
Situated under...
Scientists have discovered undersea landslide in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
The remains of the slip, known as the Gloria Knolls Slide, were discovered 75 kilometres...
The Delhi government extended the closure of Badarpur Thermal Power Plant.
The Graded Response Action Plan for tackling air pollution, prepared by the Central Pollution...
An ambitious, emergency plan to help save the vaquita porpoise from extinction in the northern Gulf of California has been recommended by the International...
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and a the leading Chinese online financial service provider Ant Financial Services Group (Ant Financial) rolled out an innovative...
The Supreme Court approved the Centre’s graded response action plan to tackle different levels of pollution.
“Enforcement of the plan shall be under the orders...
The World Economic Forum and the the Marine Science Institute of University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), have announced a partnership to improve the...
The world has just witnessed the hottest year on record, surpassing the exceptionally high temperatures of 2015, the United Nations weather agency World Meteorological...
Chinese capital city Beijing have created a new environmental police squad to root out illegal burning in the city.
The force would target open-air barbecues, garbage...
The Indian Rivers Inter-link is a proposed large-scale civil engineering project that aims to link Indian rivers by a network of reservoirs and canals...
National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) introduced trash skimmers for surface cleaning of Ganga in six more cities in January. The cities are Rishikesh,...
A typhoon Nock Ten hit the central Philippines, bringing strong winds and heavy rains.
Typhoon Nock-ten was packing maximum sustained winds of 185 kph (115...
Scientists have discovered a new bird species in the Canadian Arctic from fossils dating back to about 90 million years.
Researchers from the University of...
An international team of researchers has concluded that the Antarctic Ice Sheet actually plays a major role in regional and global climate change -- a...
Four people were killed in Tamil Nadu as a tropical storm VARDAH slammed into India’s southeastern coast with monstrous ferocity, uprooting trees and power...
India Met Department (IMD) has declared the formation of cyclone ‘Nada’ over South-West and adjoining South-East Bay of Bengal.
The cyclone will continue to move...
According to latest reports, mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef this year killed more corals than ever before.
The 2,300-kilometre long reef —...
The Government of India through the National Tiger Conservation Authority has taken a number of milestone initiatives to protect and conserve tiger and other...
Geologists have discovered the biggest exposed fault on the earth at the Banda Detachment fault in eastern Indonesia and worked out how it formed.
The...
A strong magnitude earthquake hit northeastern Japan. Soon the country’s meteorological agency issued a tsunami warning for the region’s coast including Fukushima prefecture.
The earthquake...
The United Nations Marrakech climate conference adopted a proclamation calling for the highest political commitment and solidarity in the fight against climate change.
The Marrakech...
Bio Medical Waste Problem
Government of India (GoI) has notified the Bio medical Waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 1998 under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986...
Over 20 countries have become signatories to the framework agreement of the International Solar Alliance.
The Framework Agreement of ISA was opened for signature in...
Japan ratified the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement to decrease emissions and prevent climate change, four days after the global pact officially entered into...
The Paris Agreement to combat climate change agreed in 2015 officially entered into force, putting pressure on nearly 200 countries to start executing plans...
24 countries and the European Union agreed to create the world's largest marine park in the Antarctic Ocean.
The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic...
India Met Department has proclaimed that the deep depression over East-central Bay of Bengal has strengthened into typhoon "Kyant."
'Kyant' lay focused around 620 km...
Globally averaged concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surged again to new records in 2016, and, based on readings of the longest-established greenhouse...
Supreme Court-appointed pollution watchdog, the Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), launched a mobile app "Hawa Badlo", aiming to improve air quality with public participation.
Jointly...
Hurricane Nicole wrecks Bermuda, tiny Atlantic island by causing widespread damage.
Nicole, the strongest hurricane to sweep the Bermuda in more than a decade, made...
Government, industry and civil society representatives have agreed on a new global market-based measure (GMBM) to control CO2 emissions from international aviation.
The historic move...
Hurricane Matthew battered the Florida coast of USA with powerful winds and torrential rain. More than 300,000 people were already without power across the...
Indonesian authorities have evacuated some 1,100 people after a volcano erupted.
Mount Barujari on Lombok island erupted shooting ash 2,000m (6,500 ft) into the air.
The...
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) urged world leaders to take note of the profound implications of record-high carbon dioxide readings...
Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) has become the first airport in the Asia-Pacific region to achieve carbon neutral status.
DIAL is a GMR Group-led...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi informed that India will ratify the Paris pact on Climate Change on October 2.
The decision is expected to give momentum...
$80 million fund has been launched to expand energy efficiency in developing countries.
According to India Lead- Global Strategic Communications Council the new fund is...
Apple Inc. has joined a global renewable energy initiative RE100, a collaborative, global initiative of influential businesses committed to 100 per cent renewable electricity.
Launched...
A government panel has approved that all non-cultivable hill land, rocky and sandy areas in the ecologically sensitive Aravalis in the entire National Capital...
China's meteorological authority issued a yellow alert for typhoon Malakas, forecasting strong winds and heavy rain.
Malakas, the 16th typhoon in 2016, was observed 135...
US President Barack Obama designated the country's first marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean that aims to protect fragile deep-sea ecosystems off the...
Taiwan and mainland China were hit by massive Super Typhoon Meranti.
Meranti grow from a Category 1 equivalent storm to that of a top-scale Category...
Brazil, one of the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases ratified the Paris agreement to fight global warming.
Brazil's President Michel Temer signed the ratification...
According to NASA, August 2016 is the warmest month in 136 years.
According to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA's Goddard...
Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (ESSO-INCOIS) conducted a mock drill on tsunami warnings named as ‘IOWave16'.
INCOIS organised the exercise along with the...
Hurricane Newton thrashed Mexico's northwestern resort of Los Cabos.
It uprooted trees and blow away tin roofs as thousands of tourists and locals hunkered down.
The...
Tropical Storm Hermine moved towards US mid-Atlantic and northeastern states after slamming US state of Florida.
It caused two deaths, severe property damages from Florida...
The United States has joined China to formally ratify the Paris agreement to curb climate-warming emissions.
In Paris 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed on a...
Hurricane Hermine struck Florida and brought threats of floods, landslides, surges and even tornadoes.
Hermine, which has been marked Category 1 made landfall in Florida's...
Heavy rain drenched the Japanese capital Tokyo as Typhoon Mindulle swept in, bringing floods that suspended train services and high winds that forced airlines...
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) has warned that wildfires could become more frequent and more destructive as global temperatures rise...
Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have identified the "first fingerprints of healing" of the Antarctic ozone layer.
The team found that the September ozone hole...
