New Delhi, Oct. 30 -- The Union environment ministry has changed the mandatory common green cover requirement for industrial estates from 33% to 10%, while introducing differentiated norms for individ... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 29 -- Most of the world's countries have missed a critical deadline to update their climate promises, leaving international efforts to curb global warming dangerously short of what sci... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 23 -- India's total forest area ranking has improved to ninth from 10th even as it has maintained its third position worldwide in terms of annual forest gain, according to the Global F... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 20 -- Indian wildlife conservationist Vivek Menon was elected as the new Chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) on Wednesday. He is the first Asian to lead the Commission ... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- G20 nations represent over 80% of the global GDP and human population, and thus is under a responsibility to work together as a team to especially address the developmental needs... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- COP30 should be the COP of adaptation, union environment minister Bhupender Yadav has said at the Pre COP30 meeting in Brasilia on Monday. "We should all agree on a minimum pack... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- The time for continuous reviews without action has passed. The global community must focus on implementing ambitious climate measures and addressing the most pressing challenge-t... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav will attend the Pre-COP30 meetings in Brasilia during October 13-14, followed by the G20 environment ministers meeting in Cape Town dur... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 2 -- The Union environment ministry has proposed to exempt from obtaining prior environmental clearance standalone cement grinding units which do not have captive power plants and tran... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 1 -- After a decision to fast-track environmental and forest clearance processes for critical minerals, all mining projects of atomic minerals and critical and strategic minerals notif... Read More