Ganga cleanup start of mission to clean waterbodies: Javadekar

The author has posted comments on this articlePTI | Nov 29, 2014, 05.11PM IST Prakash Javadekar said that Centre's Ganga clean-up programme was the 'beginning' of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government's mission...

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Climate Parliament asks govt to create green energy fund

NEW DELHI: Climate Parliament, a global network of legislators working to promote renewable energy, has urged the Urban development ministry to create a green energy fund to focus on utilisation of renewable energy in urban areas.MP Vandana Chavan in...

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Deadly virus pushing tigers towards extinction

NEW YORK: Adding to the existing pressures of habitat loss, poaching and depletion of prey species, a new threat to tiger populations in the wild has surfaced in the form of a deadly virus.According to a new study from the Wildlife Conservation Society...

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Tripura's capital city Agartala gets green city award

AGARTALA: Tripura's 176-year-old capital Agartala has been awarded the clean and green city award by a New Delhi-based urban policy and development experts group, the city's mayor said here on Saturday."Agartala topped the 29 towns and cities shortlisted...

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Make green laws efficient, cut regulatory bodies: Jairam Ramesh

BENGALURU: Maximize the efficacy of current environment and forest laws. But minimize regulatory bodies to curb official corruption and maladministration. This was former Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh speaking as he moderated a panel discussion...

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Eco-tourism project proposed at Sriram Nagar reserve forest

BERHAMPUR: Forest officers have proposed an eco-tourism project at Sriram Nagar reserve forest, adjoining Bhanjanagar reservoir, in Ganjam district of Odisha.An animal rescue centre is also being planned near Biju Patnaik Children's Park in the town.State's...

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Rare snow leopard found in China

BEIJING: A rare snow leopard was spotted for the first time in China since 2006 at a nature reserve in the country's northwest.The animal was spotted in a photo when a researcher, Hellat with the Annanba branch of the forest police bureau of Gansu was...

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Rail and road transport plan big push for bio-diesel

NEW DELHI: Railways has decided to power a fleet of 4,000 locomotives with alternative fuels such as bio-diesel as an attempt to move towards a cleaner environment and decrease its dependency on diesel. In a similar move, the road transport ministry...

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Small islands may amplify tsunamis: Study

PARIS: Small islands, long thought to be natural tsunami barriers for coast-dwellers, may in fact amplify the waves they are supposed to break, researchers warned on Wednesday.The findings are of concern, for many coastal communities have settled in...

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Rare snow leopard found in China

BEIJING: A rare snow leopard was spotted for the first time in China since 2006 at a nature reserve in the country's northwest.The animal was spotted in a photo when a researcher, Hellat with the Annanba branch of the forest police bureau of Gansu was...

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Fight to save endangered Indus dolphins, turtles

SUKKUR: Local legend has it that Pakistan's Indus River dolphin was once a woman, transformed by a curse from a holy man angry that she forgot to feed him one day.After thousands of years swimming the mighty river the gentle, blind mammal is under threat...

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Air pollution halves India's potential grain yields

ROME: Air pollution seems to have a direct, negative impact on grain production in India, a study warned on Monday, with recent increases in smog decreasing projected yields by half.Analysing 30 years of data, scientists developed a statistical model...

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Sex-hungry, meat-loving reptiles die early

LONDON: A research suggests that meat eating reptiles who engage in sex early in their lives are at a higher risk of early death.On the other hand, vegan male and female reptiles, who wait until they are older to produce offspring tend to live longer...

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UN climate report offers stark warnings, hope

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK: Climate change is happening, it's almost entirely man's fault and limiting its impacts may require reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero this century, the UN's panel on climate science said Sunday.The fourth and final volume...

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Soon, 'toxic' Li-ion batteries may be turned into eco-friendly ones

WASHINGTON: A new research has revealed that most of the electrolytes that are superhalogens in lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries contain toxic halogens, which on being replaced with halogen-free electrolytes can make the batteries both nontoxic and environmentally...

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Climate change fight affordable, cut emissions to zero by 2100: UN report

COPENHAGEN: Governments can keep climate change in check at manageable costs but will have to cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2100 to limit fast-worsening risks, a UN report showed on Sunday.The 40-page synthesis, summing up 5,000 pages of work...

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Rumours make tiger tracking tougher

LUCKNOW: There is no trace of the stray tiger a week after its pugmarks were found at Hasankhera village on October 25"From Godhan where it killed a bull on October 22 till Hasankhera where its pugmarks were last found, we have been tracking along the...

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UN panel scrambling to finish climate report

COPENHAGEN: After an all-night session, the United Nations' expert panel on climate science was scrambling on Saturday to finish a report on global warming that a top UN official said offers "conclusive evidence" that humans are altering the Earth's...

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