On his official work visit to Japan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh engaged in extensive talks on bilateral, regional and global issues with his Japanese counter...
South Korean steel major Posco's India project faces a huge cloud of uncertainty. The expert panel set up by the environment ministry has accused the company of...
'Economic growth is our overriding priority; there is no doubt that we have to grow at 8 to 9 per cent a year, but not at the cost of environment, not at the co...
A total of 116 roads in Himachal Pradesh were built violating Forest
(Conservation) Act, 1980. Moreover, the no-objection certificates (NOCs) to
build the roa...
A recent research conducted jointly by experts at Stanford
University and University of California has found that polluted
air directly affects a gene that ap...
It is difficult to believe that just by not wasting food the United States could immediately save the energy equivalent of that
produced by about 350 million b...
A study by Harvard medical researchers, published in the October issue of Diabetes Care, links air pollution to increased rates of diabetes. The research says t...
The harmful pollutants emitted by an aircraft at an altitude of 35,000 feet
are fatal for people, says a study published in the journal Environmental Science a...
'In the last few months, I have tried to set the ball rolling, so that by 2015, at least, we can have a system of green national accounting,' Union Minister of ...
To spread awareness about environment conservation and help
curb air, water and soil pollution in every village of Maharashtra, the state's
rural development ...