The seemingly crisp, fresh air inhaled inside the sanitised and cool environs of metro premises or air-conditioned car may actually be teeming with respirable pollutants. Pollutants may be entering
Fossilised leaves recovered from a crater lake in New Zealand provided insight on how climate changed and affected the Antarctic ice-sheet 23 million years ago, a scientist said on Thursday. The leaf
Scientists have found 500 seabed vents bubbling methane into the Pacific Ocean off the United States, roughly doubling the number of known U.S. seeps of the powerful greenhouse gas, a study showed on Wednesday.
Even as China has indicated its unwillingness to support India's attempt to enter the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), the country will still go ahead with its plans to have 63,000 MW of nuclear capacity
Better availability enables TN to sell more power on Indian Energy Exchange The volume of power bought by Southern region in the Indian Energy Exchange increased 160 per cent year on year in September
CHANDIGARH: With 7,388 cases of malaria and 1,401 cases of dengue during this season in Haryana, chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar has stressed the need to introduce measures on how to control water borne
Solution lies in concerted effortsby government and society, says expert Obesity is a major contributor to lifestyle diseases and increasing rate of childhood obesity has become a cause of concern in
Kolkata: Panic over dengue has spread faster than the disease itself in the congested neighbourhood located 700m from Belgachhia Road, thanks to two deaths in the past three days there. In fact, anxious
Punjab’s Local Bodies Department had been using the wrong insecticide to tackle dengue, depending on deltamethrin for fogging (hot vapours used to carry the spray and keep it airborne; done outdoors) whereas
Nearly 15 birds in Gwalior zoo have died in the past three days, prompting the authorities concerned to send their samples for testing for bird flu virus. “For the past three days nearly 15 birds (painted
The Delhi government has also urged the municipal corporations to keep 10 reserve teams on stand-by. The Hauz Khas lake inside the Deer Park was shut down Thursday after five ducks were found dead,
GURGAON: Alarmed over death of migratory birds at Delhi zoo due to bird flu, authorities at Sultanpur National Park, one of the popular destination for migratory birds in the region, along with experts
HYDERABAD: Close to six lakh trees were illegally axed between April 2013 and March 2016 in the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, accounting for over 55 per cent of the total destruction of tree
NEW DELHI: In order to protect and increase wild tiger population, nearly one million acres of protected habitat in India and Bhutan will be covered under a new private conservation efforts. The 'Project
JAIPUR: The new Blackbuck habitat proposed at Jaswantgarh, Nagaur got a go ahead at the state wildlife board meeting chaired by CM Vasundhara Raje. Since Tal Chapper in Churu district is already beyond
The Gujarat forest department conducted a census in mid-2016 which revealed some staggering figures; a great number of lions have died due to infighting in the Gir wildlife sanctuary. The census also reflected
NASHIK: Heavy rain this monsoon had built hope of substantial rise in groundwater level in the district. A ground check, however, has revealed that there has been little improvement even in the areas that
It achieved most of its goals with the legally-binding HFC phase-down agreement One of the reasons that make the recently-concluded climate conference in Kigali, Rwanda, notable is that 197 countries
According to FSSAI’s Delhi legal office, Section 22 of the Food Safety Act governs GM foods use. Hyderabad: Food safety officials of Telangana haven’t lifted any samples till date to test Genetically
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana unhappy with KWDT-2 award, mull remedies. Hyderabad: With the Justice Brijesh Kumar Tribunal settling the pending issue on review of KWDT-2 (Krishna Waters Disputes Tribunal-2)
