Category: Environment

  By Dinesh C Sharma (Twitter handle: @dineshcsharma) New Delhi, November 11 : Scientists are literally looking into the ground for clinching evidence of climate change. A new study of geothermal records across India has shown that the country has experienced Read More …

National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) in partnership with HCL Foundation and German development agency GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) organized “Bal Ganga Mela” at HCL’s Noida campus on November 4, 2018. More than 500 children from HCL Foundation-supported Read More …

First time after 1993, a flock of five greater flamingoes was spotted along the coast of Hope Island, which is a part of the Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary in Andhra Pradesh. The long-legged and long-necked birds were last seen in a Read More …

The wildlife trade monitoring network, TRAFFIC India has issued an advisory to wildlife enforcement agencies calling for increased efforts to help curb trafficking and sacrifice of owls during Diwali like festival seasons nights. Owls are illegally trapped and sacrificed for Read More …

The Supreme Court on October 29, 2018 prohibited the plying of 15-year-old petrol and 10-year-old diesel vehicles in the national capital region due to the prevailing pollution situation. The Supreme court made it clear that such vehicles would be impounded Read More …

Sikkim has won this year’s UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Future Policy for Gold Award for its achievement in becoming the world’s first totally organic agriculture state. As per FAO, Sikkim was considered for the award for its policies on Agroecology Read More …

The Central Government on October 10, 2018 notified the minimum environmental flows for River Ganga that has to be maintained at various locations on the river. Environmental flows are the acceptable flow regimes that are required to maintain a river in Read More …