Cities are creaking under their own weight. And heat. In Surat, for instance, parts of the city with dense concrete jungles swelter at temperatures 5 degrees higher than the city’s greener parts.

The National Green Tribunal has directed Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) and the real estate major DLF to give an undertaking thatthey will notcut trees in Sectors 55-56 of Gurgaon witho

With neither Delhi’s air nor its noise pollution levels registering a healthy trend in the recent past, on World Environment Day city doctors and health experts have warned about the major health h

Bahuguna complains that ministry is delaying clearance to power projects

The environment ministry has come under fire, this time from a Congress state government, once again reopening the development vs environment debate within UPA. The chief minister of Uttarakhand has complained about the Union environment ministry to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party president Sonia Gandhi, accusing it of delaying clearances to hydel power projects in the state.

New Delhi: India’s economic development has led to the worsening of air quality in major Indian cities, according to the results of a survey by The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri) in Bangalor

ALLAHABAD: The side effects of global warming which are creating unbearable climatic conditions have become one the biggest challenges before mankind today.

Around 32 five-star hotels in Delhi today signed an MoU with the Department of Environment, Delhi Government, to preserve natural resources by complying with Green Hotel Guidelines.

Delhi residents think the climate is changing, environmental issues are worsening and that government should regulate polluting agents, a survey released on Monday found.

Many projects in the city are being constructed without obtaining environmental clearance, which is mandatory under the Impact Assessment Authority Notification 2006, said Environment and Forest De

More than 30 five-star hotels in the Capital expressed their commitment to preserve the environment and have agreed to comply with the ‘Green Hotel Guidelines’.