Delhi’s first smog tower has been fitted at Lajpat Nagar central market. The 20-feet-tall tower is fitted with exhaust fans to suck in polluted air and can remove up to 80 per cent of the particulate matter (PM_2.5 and PM₁₀)-the primary pollutant in Delhi’s air.... read more

The Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Prakash Javadekar released the biennial India State of Forest Report (ISFR), in New Delhi on December 30, 2019

On December 30, 2019 NITI Aayog released the second edition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) India Index, which comprehensively documents the progress made by India’s States and Union Territories towards achieving the 2030 SDG targets

In its search for an answer to the problem of acute water shortages in Ladakh, particularly in regions which grow a single crop, the government is now looking to assess the impact of ‘ice stupas’ set up under the guidance of the Students Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL) and explore if these can be scaled up as solutions to help create more livelihood options

A team of researchers in IIT Guwahati has developed materials that can produce energy from water, on a small scale. The researchers employed the nanoscale phenomenon called ‘electrokinetic  streaming potential’ to harvest energy from flowing water on a small length scale like water flowing through household water taps

A proposal for an airport in Jharkhand has been pushed back with concerns over disturbing an elephant habitat. The habitat of the elephant, an endangered species and India’s national heritage animal, are regularly threatened by developmental projects

Demonstrators in Berlin called for more environment-friendly agriculture practices at a protest in Berlin that included farmers with more than 150 tractors.... read more

The UAE has constantly promoted and utilized renewable energy solutions, and supported and financed developing countries to launch sustainable clean energy projects

The top five risks most likely to face the world over the next ten years are all environment-related, an annual survey of global decision makers has found for the first time

Rhino poaching in Botswana’s Okavango Delta has risen at an unprecedented rate with 23 white rhinoceros and eight black rhinoceros killed since October 2018, the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism said.

Ash spewed by a Philippine volcano is being mixed with plastic waste to make bricks in an inventive response to the country’s persistent problems of pollution and frequent natural disasters

Rare and unique flora and fauna in Western Australia’s Stirling Range may never fully recover from a massive series of fires which devastated the national park, which is considered one of the world's most important biodiversity hotspots.... read more