State of Forest Report 2019 has shown a 1,275 sq km gain in very dense forest, but what this statistic masks is the fact that the country continues to lose its best natural forests. A look at what was ...

Policy ‘Forest cover increases up to 24% of geographical area’ In previous 2017 assessment, it was 21.54 per cent. The assessment is largely based on digital data – satellite, vector boundaries of dis ...

NEW DELHI: India’s green cover increased by 5,188 sq km (0.6%), an area the size of Goa and Delhi put together, in the past two years, shows a new assessment report of the government on the status of ...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched the Centre’s ambitious groundwater conservation scheme - called Atal Bhujal Yojana (Atal Jal) - and named the strategic tunnel under Rohta ...

Five years after the fragile UN process yielded the world's first universal climate treaty, COP25 was billed as a mopping-up session to finish guidelines for carbon markets The climate summit in Madri ...

New Delhi: India, China, Brazil and some other developing countries have failed to convince the world at the UN climate change negotiations named COP25 to evolve rules for trading internationally thei ...

Speaking at a high-level meeting at the ongoing UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP 25 in Madrid, the minister presented India's stand and said the country is "walking the talk". MA ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reminded that the impact of rising temperatures was already being felt around the world, and is having dramatic consequences for humans beings and biodiversity. H ...