Maharashtra has missed the bus as far as the proposed national river-linking project is concerned, but the state should throw its weight behind the Ganga–Cauvery link as it may benefit its citizens, said engineering consultant R C Mahulkar.

Lower hills of Himachal reeled under a heat wave with Una sizzling at 45 degree Celsius after a lapse of 25 years. The heat wave has hit normal life in lower areas and farmers are avoiding going to the fields. Most of the farmers sow paddy leaves early morning and return before noon.

About a quarter of India's land is turning into desert and degradation of agricultural areas is becoming a severe problem, the Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said, potentially threatening food security in the world's second most populous country.

Addressing the joint sitting of the Parliament, President Pranab Mukherjee said, “While putting the country on a high growth path, my government will keep sustainability at the core of our planning process”.

Even as nearly 8,000 vehicles enter and exit Panjim every day, leading to traffic chaos, it has surprisingly not led to rise in pollution level, which, on the contrary is showing a declining trend every year.

The Odisha government has formed five committees to develop fiscal instruments for promoting low carbon development in the state. The panels formed would look into specific areas and they are mandated to submit their reports within six months.

Energy UK will use electoral successes made by Eurosceptics to call for a rethink on “green” power policies in Brussels. It follows a survey by Ernst & Young (E&Y) that found the attractiveness of the UK renewables market in the eyes of investors and developers has decreased dramatically over the last 18 months.

The UK is leading the way when it comes to offshore wind; with new reports from the Carbon Trust claiming that their expertise could help China hit a deployment target of 5 GW of offshore wind by 2015.

The Japanese government formally agreed to grant a concessional loan of Rs 5 billion to Pakistan in support energy sector reforms. This loan is provided as part of a joint programme to support the energy sector reforms which is co-financed by the Asian Development Bank and The World Bank.

According to a new study based on 35 years of observations, published in the journal Ecology, climate change may be taking a hidden toll on intact rainforests in the heart of the Amazon.

The European Union’s greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 19.2 per cent compared to 1990s levels, according to the European Environment Agency. EU emissions dropped 1.3 per cent in 2012, reaching their lowest level ever recorded, according to data reported to the United Nations by the EEA.

President Barack Obama announced an initiative to tackle seafood fraud and illegal fishing in the United States. In President Obama’s announcement, he referenced the negative financial repercussions of overfishing as one of the key reasons for the initiative. “Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing continues to undermine the economic and environmental sustainability of fisheries and fish stocks, both in the United States and around the world.