A student-led two-hour online protest against the draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2020, sparked a storm on Twitter, becoming the second-most trending subject in the country on ...

In May, styrene, a gas which affects the central nervous system and can even cause cancer, leaked from a factory in Visakhapatnam. Eleven people died while hundreds had to be evacuated in the wee hour...

A committee constituted by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has recommended that royalty and taxes should be realised from cement and thermal power plants which utilised illegally mined coal after th...

Over 5,000 runners from across the country will be part of the third edition of Noamundi Run-a-thon to be hosted by the ore, mines and quarry division of Tata Steel on Sunday.Noamundi, a mining town i...

A committee constituted by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has reported that the ban on illegal rat-hole mining came as a boon for cement and thermal power plants in Meghalaya as they were virtually...

The Meghalaya cabinet on Tuesday approved the guidelines of the Meghalaya Environment Protection and Restoration Fund (MEPRF) to use it for land reclamation in areas affected by coal mining.“The gui...

Thousands of trees have been felled for widening Dhanbad’s roads in a classic case of development clashing with the environment, and work on planting trees as replacement has been lagging. Sample th...

Sir — The prime minister of Bhutan was recently reported to have encouraged citizens to adopt a stray dog, plant a tree or participate in waste management procedures as a fitting birthday gift for t...

Amid protests against the proposed felling of thousands of trees in Mumbai's Aarey Colony to make way for a Metro car shed, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday said it is the govern...

Residents of Harmu Housing Colony are not at all comfortable with the idea of a five-star hotel coming up on a vacant plot of land beside their local playground.Most of them feel the proposal is an at...