A new report from Amnesty International supports the growing resistance to Vedanta’s refinery and mining activities in Orissa’s Lanjigarh district More...

After the melting glaciers fiasco, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is now being challenged on its claim about the disappearing Amazonian forests More...

‘Caring for wetlands: an answer to climate change’ was the message for World Wetlands Day this year. It marked the anniversary of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) in Ramsar, Iran, on February 2, 1971 More...

Indian shipbreaking yards have poor safety standards for workers and the country has not made enough progress in managing its toxic waste safely, said a UN special rapporteur More...

Seventy per cent of municipal sewage and effluents from over 900 cities and towns is being discharged untreated into rivers that are a major source of drinking water, according to a recent study by the Central Pollution Control Board More...

A study of 88 major industrial hubs in the country finds that almost all of them are heavily polluted, with 10 needing urgent attention More...

A new study suggests that increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could lead to a steeper rise in global average temperatures than has been previously believed More...

As climate change negotiators try and figure out how to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, a tribal hamlet in Maharashtra has shown the way More...

The UN climate change conference in Copenhagen heard from US scientists that the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is more than that suggested by official data, and that this could be because of under-reporting in the carbon exchange programme More...

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