The Centre has constituted a task force comprising experts and senior officials to forge a consensus among states for the speedy implementation of the interlinking of rivers in the country.

The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has proposed to set up long-term permanent monitoring plots in the Sundarbans to study the impacts of climate change on its flora and fauna.

With the Prime Minister launching a national Air Quality Index (AQI), India joined a global league of nations which includes the US, France, China, and Mexico that have implemented such an alert system.

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a prototype of a monitoring system that can help identify water leaks and raise alarms.

The Kolhapur civic body has identified 68 spots across the city to install water ATMs, from where the citizens can get a litre of purified drinking water at Rs 1 as against the bottled water available in market at Rs 15 a litre.

In order to implement waste management policies effectively, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate ChangeĀ  has come out with four separate draft rules for managing municipal solid waste, e-waste (computers, mobiles, or other electronic/electrical gadgets), plastic waste, and medical waste.

China plans to close numerous small-scale enterprises in nearly a dozen industries, including dyeing plants, oil refineries, and pesticide producers, in an effort to clean up its water supply.

Climate change could be affecting the quality of acorn crops from the UK's oak trees, the Woodland Trust has said.

In partnership with an environmental nonprofit organization, Apple plans to purchase roughly 36,000 acres of private forestland, which would be sustainably harvested for Apple's packaging.

A new study predicts that Western Canada will lose 70 per cent of its glaciers to climate change by the end of the century.

A booming global demand for rubber is leading to mass deforestation in Southeast Asia, as land is cleared for monoculture rubber plantations.

China, South Korea, and Japan have agreed to strengthen trilateral cooperation on water policy innovation during the 7th World Water Forum.