The Environment Ministry informed the Rajya Sabha (upper house of Parliament) that 2405 people in India died in FY2018-19 from extreme weather events. In a written statement, Babul Supriyo, Minister o ...

The revised budget for pollution control schemes in the last fiscal was a mere Rs five crore. The Centre on July 5 increased the allocation for Environment Ministry from last fiscal by 10.4 percent to ...

UNITED NATIONS: India is projected to lose 5.8 per cent of working hours in 2030, a productivity loss equivalent to 34 million full-time jobs, due to global warming, particularly impacting agriculture ...

The extreme heatwave that recently saw temperatures soar across India was a stark reminder that this region is one of the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. As countries start to declar ...

According to the ministry, out of the 651 Protected Areas in India, 316 have been covered under the final ESZ notification which provides for prohibition of mining, stone quarrying and crushing units ...

The water crisis in Chennai, and droughts witnessed in Maharashtra and several other states this year, are likely to heighten if India fails take efforts to conserve water and replenish the low ground ...

NEW DELHI: Holding developed world responsible for much of the effects of climate change, environment minister Prakash Javadekar on Friday asserted India will not bow down to any international pressur ...

If urgent steps are not taken immediately, climate change events will cause mass dislocation and conflict. “Chennai, an Indian city of 5 million, is running out of water,” read a headline in the New Y ...

NEW DELHI: Consolidating administration over water related issues further under one ministry, the Centre has taken out the National River Conservation Directorate (NRCD) from environment ministry and ...

NEW YORK: India's grain production is vulnerable to climate change, say scientist who have found that the yield of the country's rice crop can significantly decline during extreme weather conditions. ...