The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has been registered as the world’s first transport sector project under the Programme of Activities (PoA) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), enabling it to quantify climate change benefit from all metro operations in India.

A special committee headed by the Union Minister of Water Resources, has approved a 14,500 crore project to connect the Damanganga, Wagh, and Pinjal rivers. Under the project, excess water from Damanganga will be diverted to Pinjal in order to cater to the increasing needs of Mumbai.

Most forests in the state are rapidly degrading and becoming more and more fragmented with every passing decade. Forest fragmentation means breaking up of a large intact forest into small patches. The overall forest cover is also shrinking by almost 49 per cent in a time span of eight decades.

The Central government has assured the Supreme Court that the deadline of cleaning Ganga has been set for 2018.

India lost 64 tigers in 2014 due to various reasons and Tamil Nadu topped the chart with the maximum number of deaths, according to the National Tiger Conservation Authority.

The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) and TERI are working on a project to generate electricity from coconut husk that is segregated from municipal solid waste in the civic area.

China plans to extend subsidies for new energy green vehicles to 2020, thereby extending the current incentive scheme which expires at the end of 2015.

Responsible for 400,000 deaths each year globally, air pollution has yet to be sufficiently addressed by the world’s governments, researchers have warned. Air pollution damages the heart.

Scotland’s streets continue to break European air quality standards as the country wrestles with an invisible “public health crisis” costing thousands of lives and billions of pounds.

Scientists who have reported that the Great Lakes are awash in tiny bits of plastic are raising new alarms about a little-noticed form of the debris turning up in sampling nets: synthetic fibres from garments, cleaning cloths, and other consumer products.

As the largest single chunk of melting snow and ice in the world, the massive ice sheet that covers about 80 per cent of Greenland is recognized as the biggest contributor to rising sea levels due to glacial meltwater. Until now, scientists’ have mostly focussed on the ice sheet’s aquamarine lakes and on monster chunks of ice that slide into the ocean to become icebergs.

A report published recently by the Montpellier Panel—an eminent group of agriculture, ecology, and trade experts from Africa and Europe—says that about 65 per cent of Africa’s arable land is too damaged to sustain viable food production.