Brussels, September 6 (IANS): August 2024 has tied with August 2023 as the hottest August on record globally, with the average surface air temperature hitting 16.82 degrees Celsius, 0.71 degrees Celsius above t

New Delhi, August 24 (IANS): The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Saturday approved the 'BioE3 (Biotechnology for Economy, Environment and Employment) Policy for Fostering High Perform

New Delhi, August 14 (IANS): The Union government on Wednesday added three more bird sanctuaries from Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh to the prestigious Ramsar Site list, taking India’s total tally of wetlands

Ulan Bator, July 17 (IANS): Mongolia's Khar-Us Lake National Park has been added to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves of UNESCO, local media reported on Wednesday, citing the UNESCO.The decision was made

Taipei, July 17 (IANS): Local environmentalists have expressed concern about a large-scale coral bleaching in the southern and eastern waters off the coast of Taiwan, which has been occurring since June due to

New Delhi, May 15 (IANS): Extreme temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius that impacted billions of people across Asia in April were made hotter and more likely by human-caused climate change, according to rapid

Shimla, March 6 (IANS): The reduced snowfall in the Himalayas increases glacial lakes that pose a growing risk of lake outburst floods in the Himalayas, warn glaciologists.They call for increasing preparedness,

Davos, January 17 (IANS): Climate change threatens to cause an additional 14.5 million deaths and $12.5 trillion in economic losses worldwide by 2050, according to a World Economic Forum (WEF) report published

Our CorrespondentKohima | December 22Like air or water, music cannot be held back. It flows seamlessly from one plane to another, from one musical language to another, there are boundaries yet there are no boun

Hong Kong, December 4 (IANS): A significant study has revealed that plastic pollution from cigarettes costs $26 billion a year and China, where half of the world’s cigarettes are smoked contributes around 20

New Delhi, November 30 (IANS): Outdoor air pollution from all sources claims 2.18 million lives per year in India, which could potentially be avoided by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy sourc

New Delhi, November 19 (IANS): The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP28 hosted by the United Arab Emirates in Dubai will take place between November 30 and December 12 in the backdrop of recen

New Delhi, November 19 (IANS): Air quality management progress has been disappointingly sluggish, with persistently high levels of pollution posing a severe threat to public health.Despite mounting scientific e

New York, October 7 (IANS): On an already warming planet, plants like oaks and poplars will emit more of a compound that exacerbates poor air quality, contributing to problematic particulate matter and low-atmo

Los Angeles, September 12 (IANS): Singer Demi Lovato has said that she is currently thriving in her new relationship, with boyfriend Jordan Rutes.Reflecting on her ‘daddy issues’, the singer has opened up a

Chennai, August 10 (IANS): The Southern bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued a notice to Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) on reports of pollution risks in

Geneva, July 5 (IANS): El Nino conditions have developed in the tropical Pacific for the first time in seven years, setting the stage for a likely surge in global temperatures and disruptive weather and climate

New Delhi, July 5 (IANS): July 3 was the hottest day globally ever recorded, according to climate scientists, based on data from the US government's National Centers for Environmental Prediction. Average

New Delhi, June 14 (IANS): A new analysis which applies sustainability limits and minimises the need for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) finds new wind and solar needs to be installed five times faster by 2030 at

Sydney, June 7 (IANS): Researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) have estimated that 76.8 per cent of corals across the world would catch disease by 2100 amid global warming. In their