The civic body of Aurangabad is working on an ambitious plan under the proposed smart city project to ensure ‘zero garbage’ in the city.

India has pledged to make its economy more energy efficient and cut the carbon produced per unit of GDP growth by 33–35 per cent by 2030 from 2005 levels in a climate-change policy statement.

Although India is set to become a water scarce country by 2025 due to demand–supply mismatch, the water sector is expected to see an investment of USD 13 billion  from overseas players in the next few years.

In a bid to become business-friendly state, the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has launched Online Consent Management — Extended Green Node (XGN) software that is set to make the process of applying for environmental clearance digitized.

Several small floating ‘oasis’ of green plants have been helping Thane Municipal Corporation to clean its polluted lakes, that too in an environment-friendly manner.  The pilot project has been initiated in three lakes.

As many as 3,571 rainwater harvesting tanks have been sanctioned in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh for conservation of water.

More than 4 million people across the Pacific are predicted to suffer from food or clean water scarcity due to the current El Niño. People are suffering from a prolonged drought in the Chimbu province in Papua New Guinea, which caused sudden and severe frosts in highlands and killed almost all crops.

With plastic pollution increasing, both on land and at sea, all species of marine turtles face the grave risk of losing their population, researchers have warned.

The surface melting of Antarctic ice shelves may double by 2050 and surpass intensities associated with ice shelf collapse by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the present rate, a new study has warned.

Fifteen new species of plants and animals were discovered in the past six years in Bhutan, according to a recent World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) report, “Hidden Himalayas: Asia’s Wonderland”.

Thirty-one per cent of cactus species are threatened with extinction, according to the first comprehensive, global assessment of the species group by IUCN and partners, recently published in the journal Nature Plants.

New Zealand intends to create a new sanctuary in the Kermadec Islands region of the South Pacific, about 1,000 kilometres northeast of the country’s North Island to safeguard the unique, pristine ocean environment.