Environmentalist, especially river conservation activist, author, amateur pilot and Member of Parliament…, Anil Madhav Dave had donned various caps before he became the Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change in July 2016. (Read in Hindi: अनिल माधव दवे : एक ऐसे मंत्री जिन्हें थी पर्यावरण की गहरी समझ)

If Anti-corruption drives, including demonetization of high currency notes, are the center piece of the Narendra Modi Government’s first three years of governance, A slew of initiatives including India’s bold stand in the Paris climate meet, sustained bids to protect flora and fauna and stringent control orders for air and water pollution levels, are among noteworthy foot prints on the environment, forests and climate front.

Biologists at the University of California San Diego have demonstrated for the first time that a widely used pesticide can significantly impair the ability of otherwise healthy honey bees to fly, raising concerns about how pesticides affect their capacity to pollinate and the long-term effects on the health of honey bee colonies.

United Nations celebrates a special day to celebrate Mother Earth on 22nd April. Launched in 1970 with 10000 thousand people, today it covers one billion people in 192 countries. The basic objective is to raise awareness about the obligation of human beings to protect Earth and share its resources with future generations.

India is one of the mega diversity countries in the world with different types of forests. Officially 20 per cent of geographical area in the country is under forest cover. The National Forest Policy (1988) aims to increase the forest cover to one third.

It is not just chillness that winter brings us every time, it invites countless birds from elsewhere to India. More than 100 species of birds from several parts of the world travel to the Indian subcontinent on the onset of this coldest season of the year- many from Palearctic countries like Mangolia, Russia and Siberia.

Ice loss from Canada’s Arctic glaciers has transformed them into a major contributor to sea level change, new research by University of California, Irvine glaciologists has found.

New York: A new study by Wildlife Conservation Society in India shows that three carnivores – tigers, leopards, and dholes (Asian wild dog) – seemingly in direct competition with one other, are living side by side with surprisingly little conflict. Usually, big cats and wild canids live in different locations to avoid each other.

Vaikom, the land of Satyagraha is situated in the northwest of Kottayam district in Kerala created history again on 12th January. The first solar-powered ferry in India named as Aditya started service between Vaikom and Thavanakkadavu, connecting Kottayam and Alappuzha districts. (Read in Hindi)

Kaziranga National Park is one of the oldest wildlife conservancy reserves of India, first notified in 1905 and constituted as Reserved Forest in 1908 with an area of 228.825 Sq. Km specially established for conservation and protection of the Greater One Horned Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros Unicornis) whose number was estimated at twenty pairs then.