The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), Government of India, recently said real world or on-road emissions testing for BS-VI diesel vehicles will be in-built at the time of type approval or production of these cars 2020 onwards.

Three years of successive drought, and a fourth in the offing, has seen a serious dip in Karnataka's agricultural cultivation. Since 2000/01, the state has seen serious fluctuation in cultivated land, which has reduced by 10 lakh hectares.

More than nine out of every 10 households having access to toilets use them in rural areas and little over 62 per cent of rural homes have individual toilets, according to a government-sponsored survey.

The Telangana government has decided to formalize the waste management process in a move to automate urban recycling operations for smart cities.

North India, along with parts of Pakistan and Bangladesh, would be among the regions hardest hit by climate change by the end of the century, if the business-as-usual situation of greenhouse gas emissions prevails, according to a study published in the journal Science Advances.

The economic viability of any development project that involves diversion of forest land may now reduce with the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India, coming up with new cost–benefit analysis guidelines.

Rising carbon dioxide levels from global warming will drastically reduce the amount of protein in staple crops, such as rice and wheat, leaving vulnerable populations at risk of growth stunting and early death.

Israel has successfully launched its first spatial environmental research vehicle designed for orbital monitoring of Earth's vegetation, according to the Israel Space Agency.

Coral reefs of the Seychelles' Aldabra Atoll, as well as the 28 others named UNESCO World Heritage sites, are under threat of disappearance by 2100 should water temperatures keep rising.

According to latest figures from the World Health Organisation (WHO), 4.3 million people per year die prematurely from illness attributable to the household air pollution caused by the inefficient use of solid fuels for cooking.

A new report that looks at the collaborative efforts of private sector and government actors to halt deforestation in two key tropical forest nations could have lessons for countries around the world.

As global temperatures continue to rise, droughts are expected to become more frequent and severe in many regions during this century.