Advocating to follow Gandhiji’s message for Sustainability of Himalayas, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Friday said pressure of population and exploitation of natural resources are extr

Even as the area around Parliament was swamped by crowds of Anna Hazare's supporters, demanding a stronger Lokpal Bill on Wednesday, a small group of environmental activists staged their own demonstration against a different bill, the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill, 2011.

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Two decades after setting foot on the land of blizzards, India is all set to rebuild Maitri, the first permanent station on Antarctica. The research station would be totally redone with a view to making it eco-friendly and independent of fossil fuels.

Bangalore, While the Health Ministry may maintain that the incidence of cholera has seen a decline, experts feel otherwise.

The ministry of environment and Forests (MoEF) has cleared the construction of India

KOCHI: The Union Ministry of Science and Technology will set up a radar in Kochi to facilitate study of climate change.

The Stratosphere Troposphere (ST) radar will be established on four acres of land on the Cochin University of Science and Technology campus in Kalamasserry.

A day before Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrives in India, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has sprung a surprise on the Union Cabinet, which meets tomorrow, by hurriedly pushing through a proposal for an agreement with China on green technologies.

An agreement of this sort, sources said, does not currently exist with any other partner country like the US or Japan.

That proposal was moved b