Category: Environment

Supreme Court Judge Justice P.S. Narasimha recently observed that environmental principles borrowed from Western legal systems,may not always help in…

The Standing Committee of the National Board for Wildlife (SC-NBWL) has recommended restoring the Rhesus Macaque to Schedule II of…

A recent ICAR (Indian Council of Agricultural Research) study has found that climate change and imbalanced use of fertilizers are…

A recent CITES verification mission advised India to halt imports of critically endangered species like gorillas and orangutans due to…

A recent study by Bharathidasan University, Tamil Nadu, reported high levels of heavy metals in sediments and fish from the…

The Great Nicobar Island mega-infrastructure project has moved a step forward as the A&N administration prepared GIS maps for denotification…

Delhi recently carried out cloud-seeding operations with IIT-Kanpur for the first time in almost 50 years to induce artificial rain…

India’s renewable energy capacity has expanded significantly, yet the carbon intensity of grid electricity has increased in recent years. A…

Scientists in Brazil have recently begun the AmazonFACE Project near Manaus to study how the Amazon rainforest reacts to rising…

The Union Tribal Affairs Ministry has introduced a new policy framework on tiger conservation, emphasising that forest communities must not…