India ranks 128th in terms of meeting the United Nations' (UN) health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, with low scores on air pollution, sanitation, hepatitis B, and child wasting, according to a global health review published in The Lancet

India has begun the process of eliminating seven extremely harmful chemicals almost eight years after the world agreed on their phase out under the Stockholm Convention.

Garbage dumping in Ghazipur has been banned with immediate effect and the landfill site is likely to be cleared within two years.

The government's Rs.5.50-lakh-crore plan to undertake 30 river interlinking projects, which is likely to end excessive floods and drought in the country, will take off by the end of 2017.

The government has unveiled the national nutrition strategy which aims at ensuring every child, adolescent girl, and woman attains optimal nutritional status by 2022.

A Rs.943–crore project is scheduled to be at Chikkaballapur, 50 km from Bengaluru, which will use the water flowing out of the city to strengthen the water table in the neighbouring district.

Microsoft, Walt Disney Co., and General Motors are among hundreds of companies calculating how much they spend on carbon emissions to show investors they are concerned about global warming.

Extensive loss of branching corals and changes in coral community structure in Australia's Palm Islands region over the past century has been revealed in a new study.

European carmakers have offered a further 20 per cent cut in average carbon dioxide emissions for their vehicles in the next round of EU goals currently being drawn up, but said full compliance should wait until 2030 and remains conditional on consumer uptake of electrified cars.

A third of the planet's land is severely degraded and fertile soil is being lost at the rate of 24bn tonnes a year.

Storm–shocked Floridians returned to shattered homes as the remnants of Hurricane Irma pushed inland, leaving more than half of all state residents without power and city streets underwater from Orlando and Jacksonville into coastal Georgia and South Carolina.

Asia's mountain glaciers will lose at least a third of their mass through global warming by the century's end, with dire consequences for millions of people who rely on them for fresh water, researchers have said.