A study submitted to the environment ministry on the cumulative impact of 13 proposed hydroelectric projects (HEPs) on the Tawang River Basin (TRB), Arunachal Pradesh, has said that the projects will affect the unique biodiversity, undisturbed forests, and cultural diversity of TRB and will have detrimental impact on habitats of endangered flora and fauna.

Keeping in view the multiple uses of bamboo and its products, the state's forest department will soon launch a bamboo-based livelihood project.

The forest cover of 12 states and Union Territories has declined by over 1,200 sq. km due to a variety of reasons including encroachment and mining.

Over 1,500 billion cusecs of water flow has reduced in the Ganga catchment area of the Himalayas due to felling of trees and destruction of other vegetation areas to make way for urbanization and road construction in the Himalayan region.

Seeking to bring students closer to nature and inculcate in them a sense of urgency to protect the environment, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change launched the 'School Nursery Yojana' which would involve children in raising saplings in nurseries created inside their school campuses.

The Gujarat government has decided to give legal possession rights to forest dwellers so that they can enjoy benefits of various government schemes for regular farmers and avail bank loans against property.

According to a newly released scientific paper, outdoor air pollution contributes to the deaths of an estimated 1.6 million people in China every year or about 4,400 people a day.

One of the state's worst wildfire seasons in history has scorched five million acres of tundra and forests across Alaska and experts fear that climate change will cause even more devastating fires through a combination of lower snowpack, drying tundra, and melting permafrost.

The President of the low-lying Pacific island nation of Kiribati called for a global moratorium on new coal mines to slow global warming and a creeping rise in world sea levels.

A book with pages that can be torn out to filter drinking water has proved effective in its first field trials. The 'drinkable book' combines treated paper with printed information on how and why water should be filtered. Its pages contain nanoparticles of silver or copper, which kill bacteria in the water as it passes through.

Central Asian glaciers have melted at four times the global average since the early 1960s, shedding 27 per cent of their mass.

In what conservationists are hailing as a major breakthrough in efforts to protect Sumatra’s fast-dwindling lowland rainforests, the Indonesian government finally approved an ecosystem restoration license for more than 44,000 ha of forests bordering Bukit Tigapuluh, a national park renowned for its rich wildlife.