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Need to ensure countries take their obligations seriously to combat climate change: India

environment
Updated on Sept 29, 2020 02:33 pm IST
“India is doing its part to combat climate change with determination and focus and in the spirit of South-South cooperation,”(Pixabay)

Aerial images show coastal road reclamation far beyond requirement: Environmentalist to SC

CAT’s executive trustee, Debi Goenka, said the depth and the width of the reclamation demonstrated that the Supreme Court order has been allegedly ignored and caused irreparable damage to Mumbai’s coastline.(Conservation Action Trust)
environment
Published on Sept 29, 2020 10:10 am IST

High wind speed improves Delhi’s air quality marginally

“High surface wind speed is predicted... Favourable ventilation condition is likely to keep Delhi’s AQI in the moderate category for the next three days,” SAFAR said.(Pixabay)
environment
Updated on Sept 28, 2020 09:56 pm IST

Identified tourism sites can be turned into green zones with use of only bio fuels: Petroleum min

The proposed project will be the joint effort of the ministry of tourism and the ministry of petroleum and natural gas.(Pixabay)
environment
Updated on Sept 28, 2020 06:46 pm IST

World’s youth rallies against climate change

Thunberg and a handful of members of her group, Fridays for Future, assembled outside parliament with signs bearing slogans including “Stop Denying the Climate Is Dying”. (Representational Image)(Unsplash)
environment
Updated on Sept 26, 2020 11:27 am IST

Aarey: Final proposal allocates 329 ha forest soon to be part of SGNP

A final proposal for reserved forest declaration has been vetted and submitted to the Maharashtra government for the allocation of 328.9 hectare (ha) within Aarey as a reserved forest under the Indian Forest Act.(Vanashakti)
environment
Published on Sept 26, 2020 10:26 am IST

Mahul firms catching up with state’s pollution abatement plan: Environment Minister

Residents of the Mahul-Trombay industrial area have been demanding their rehabilitation for the past two years on health grounds because of severe air pollution.(Sourced)
environment
Published on Sept 25, 2020 10:06 am IST

Green cover in Prayagraj almost doubles in 3 years

The forest department alone has planted over 40 lakh saplings. Besides, farmers and residents have planted trees on a large scale.(Representational Photo/HT)
environment
Published on Sept 24, 2020 09:58 am IST

Whale beaching: An enduring mystery

Mass whale strandings have occurred throughout recorded modern history, and likely earlier.(Unsplash)
environment
Updated on Sept 23, 2020 06:56 pm IST

Don’t give up on recycling plastic

Other organizations are helping to provide waste collecting and recycling infrastructure to the one-third of the globe that still lacks it.(Unsplash)
environment
Updated on Sept 24, 2020 09:13 am IST

Toxins in water killed hundreds of elephants in Botswana

Representational Image(Unsplash)
environment
Updated on Sept 22, 2020 01:26 pm IST

10.76 million trees felled or marked for felling for infra projects since 2015

Around 1.263 million trees have been marked for felling in 2019-20 so far. In 2018-19, the number was highest at 3.036 million.(Representational Photo/HT)
environment
Updated on Sept 18, 2020 08:45 am IST

MP forest officials play down leopard scare at Jabalpur colony, offer reasons

The forest officials maintain that a leopard cannot be considered to have turned dangerous until it attacks humans.(Getty Images/Representative)
environment
Updated on Sept 17, 2020 02:35 pm IST

A Nobel Peace Prize for Greta Thunberg? In the age of climate change and coronavirus, it is possible

FILE PHOTO: Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg holds a poster reading
environment
Updated on Sept 17, 2020 02:25 pm IST

680 projects in wildlife rich and protected areas were cleared in past 5 years

Jharkhand, July 03 (ANI): Deserted view of Jharia mining area during second day of coal strike against the privatization of coal mines, in Dhanbad on Friday. (ANI Photo)(ANI)
environment
Published on Sept 17, 2020 09:47 am IST

These scientists are studying why California keeps burning

TOPSHOT - A firefighter watches the Bobcat Fire burning on hillsides near Monrovia Canyon Park in Monrovia, California on September 15, 2020. - A major fire that has been raging outside Los Angeles for more than a week threatened to engulf a historic observatory and billion-dollar broadcast towers on September 15 as firefighters struggled to contain the flames. The so-called Bobcat Fire was within 500 feet (150 meters) from the 116-year-old Mt. Wilson Observatory, the US Forest Service said in a tweet, while fire officials said crews were in place
environment
Updated on Sept 16, 2020 09:49 pm IST

Global emissions of greenhouse gases plummet during lockdown, but for how long?

Global emissions of greenhouse gases plummeted during the lockdowns but they’re already heading back up to pre-corona levels.(Unsplash)
environment
Updated on Sept 16, 2020 05:03 pm IST

Pest attack on Mumbai’s mangrove forests unusually early this year: Forest department

Mumbai’s died up mangrove forests.(SEAP)
environment
Updated on Jan 06, 2021 07:08 am IST

World Ozone Day 2020: How we can do our part for preserving it

World Ozone Day 2020: Significance of International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer.(Unsplash)
environment
Updated on Sept 16, 2020 01:19 pm IST

‘Soil pollution from Kanjur landfill killing fish less than 500m from flamingo sanctuary’

Hundreds of dead fish were floating in and along the edges of the creek on Tuesday.(SEAP)
environment
Updated on Sept 16, 2020 11:52 am IST

Covid-19 waste: Maharashtra pollution body asks BMC to enhance abatement measures

MPCB said black smoke was being generated from burning a voluminous amount of personal protective equipment (PPE) kits daily but the unit was not violating emission norms for nitrogen dioxide (NO2).(Saif Alam)
environment
Published on Sept 15, 2020 09:25 am IST

Fishermen leader moves Bombay HC, complains about lack of action to stop banned purse seine nets, high-density LED lights

In his petition, Akhil Maharashtra Macchimar Kruti Samittee chairman Damodar Tandel said no action has been taken to stop the banned activities reported mostly off the coast of Ratnagiri despite repeated complaints.(Representational Photo/AFP)
environment
Published on Sept 12, 2020 02:49 pm IST

Coral patch being reclaimed at Haji Ali, allege Mumbai residents

A view of the completed reclamation at Mahalaxmi Bay.(Vivek Kumar)
environment
Published on Sept 12, 2020 01:25 pm IST

Oil exploration in forests to become cheaper, easier

The environment ministry is also considering allowing flexibility in prescribing scales of maps for exploration so that exploration projects can be cleared faster.(Representational Photo/HT)
environment
Published on Sept 12, 2020 10:13 am IST

Uttarakhand forest department to use GIS to check for encroachments

In the last two surveys conducted by the Forest Survey of India over a period of four years from 2015 to 2019, Uttarakhand has not reported an increase of even 1% forest cover.(Representational Photo/HT)
environment
Published on Sept 10, 2020 04:48 pm IST

New landslide zones activated on Char Dham road: Experts

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled the width of the highway shall not exceed the 5.5 metres that the Union road transport and highways ministry specified in 2018 for under-construction roads in mountainous terrain.(HT Photo)
environment
Updated on Sept 10, 2020 11:55 am IST

Humans pushing 1 in 3 freshwater species to extinction

The size of wetlands in India has shrunk to only 0.03% area of the total geographic area. In(Reuters)
environment
Updated on Sept 10, 2020 12:05 pm IST

Increased warming closing in on limit agreed upon, says UN report

The report comes on the heels of a weekend of weather gone wild around the U.S.: Scorching heat, record California wildfires and two more Atlantic storms that set records for earliest 16th and 17th named storms. (Representational Image)(Unsplash)
environment
Updated on Sept 09, 2020 11:29 pm IST

Air pollution: Low ozone layer found over Brahmaputra river valley

The study has found a relatively low concentration of Ozone over Guwahati compared to the other urban locations in India. (Representational Image)(Unsplash)
environment
Updated on Sept 07, 2020 08:26 am IST

Vegetation in Bering Sea island shows ice at lowest levels in 5,500 years: Report

A frozen beach on the Bering Sea coast is seen near the last stretch mushers must pass before the finish line of the Iditarod dog sled race in Nome, Alaska.(REUTERS)
environment
Updated on Sept 03, 2020 09:55 am IST
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