Generva, March 6 (IANS) Each year, environmental pollutants lead to the death of an estimated 1.7 million children under five, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a new report on Monday. The causes include…
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) Gender in Geographic Information System (GIS), though new, plays a significant role in helping disaster risk management, and reducing environmental and climate change impacts in vulnerable areas, say two women…
By Sheikh Qayoom Srinagar, March 5 (IANS) Spring, Kashmir’s season of a million flowers, butterflies, singing birds, honeybees and murmuring mountain streams charged by winter’s plentiful snowfall, is already here. Its arrival this year has…
Kolkata, March 4 (IANS) Following the visit of an official of the Ramsar secretariat, the West Bengal government has decided to come up with a “wise use” plan on how to best manage the ecologically…
Bhubaneswar, March 4 (IANS) With the state witnessing a rise in temperature, the Odisha government on Saturday asked all departments to prepare a heat wave action plan to deal with the situation. The meteorological department…
Kolkata, March 4 (IANS) No conservation effort would be successful without involving women, believes Pramod Tandon, the CEO of Biotech Park, Lucknow, batting for scaling up of initiatives that link women’s empowerment and conservation efforts,…
New York, March 4 (IANS) No, the giant pandas did not get their unique patches to look cute to human eyes. New research suggests that the black and white markings help them hide in snowy…
Toronto, March 4 (IANS) Big muscles in the tails of early dinosaurs helped them move about on all fours and rise up on just their two back feet, new research suggests. Bipedalism in dinosaurs was…
Washington, March 4 (IANS) The Trump administration is expected to begin rolling back stringent federal regulations on vehicle pollution that contributes to global warming, marking a U-turn to efforts to force the American auto industry…
Washington, March 4 (IANS) The White House is proposing to cut the budget of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a leading government agency on climate science, by 17 per cent, a media report…
Srinagar, March 4 (IANS) At a minus 8.6 degrees Celsius, the ski resort of Gulmarg was the coldest in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday as the weather office forecast dry weather for the next three…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) It was a clear Saturday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 11.1 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky will remain…
Jakarta, March 4 (IANS) At least four people were killed and thousands others displaced due to floods and landslides in Indonesia’s West Sumatra province, a disaster agency official said on Saturday. Heavy downpours occurred in…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) Perhaps signalling a thaw in frosty ties, India has accepted Pakistan’s offer of participation in the Indus Commission meeting, with talks scheduled for later this month in Lahore. Six months…
Guwahati, March 3 (IANS) Days after BBC was banned from India’s tiger projects for five years for questioning protection measures in Kaziranga national park, Survival International has launched a campaign to boycott the park as…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) Seized from poachers and traffickers, a large quantity of wildlife articles, including leopard and tiger hides, bones and elephant ivory, were burned at a ceremony here by Union Environment Minister…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) The government’s FAME India Scheme to support hybrid and electric vehicles has only ended up “hard-selling” mostly mild diesel hybrid cars, an analysis by the Centre for Science and Environment…
Kolkata, March 3 (IANS) Iranian architect Leila Araghian, chief architect and designer of the award-winning Tabiat Bridge, the largest pedestrian overpass built in Tehran, says she always picks up something new from late Indian architect…
Shimla, March 3 (IANS) More than 230,000 hectares of forests in Himachal Pradesh are under a canopy of exotic lantana weed, a flowering shrub, that is “seriously” threatening the natural regeneration of native plant species,…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy sky on Friday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 12.5 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season’s average, the weather office said. According…