With the nod from the Supreme Court, Vedanta and POSCO may have cleared the legal hurdles relating to mining in Orissa. But the battle on the ground is far from over with villagers pledging to fight till the end to preserve their environment and rich natural resources More...

The country lists an eight-point agenda for climate change mitigation efforts in various sectors but does not set emissions targets or provide policy direction on its climate change mitigation programme More...

The environmental group Toxics Watch is critical of a recently released ASSOCHAM study that calculates that 2,500 MW of electricity can be safely produced using municipal and industrial waste More...

Two reports brought out by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) show how individuals and countries can substantially cut carbon emissions in small and big ways More...

Survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak that killed 15,000 people have won a small concession from the government with an ‘in principle’ agreement to set up a commission  More...

Oxfam wants to see action on actual carbon cutting, not just debates about targets. It also wants the G8 to reconsider its biofuels policy as there is mounting scientific evidence that biofuel mandates are actually accelerating climate change More...

Planting trees is seen as one of the most cost-effective methods of countering climate change. A UNEP-backed tree-planting campaign gets off to a good start More...

Global warming has been blamed for the melting of the famous Amarnath lingam, forcing the local administration to harness modern technology to try and arrest the melt More...

An eight kilometre stretch of the Bhagirathi river has dried up. Google Earth pictures show the river snaking through the Himalayas as one long, sandy stretch without any water. The same stretch was one kilometre long in 2004 More...

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