Last Updated: Wednesday, July 30, 2014, 20:07
Environment and Forests Minister Parkash Javadekar Wednesday said there are abour 233 proposals pending for clearance of the Standing Committee of National Board of Wildlife.
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 30, 2014, 19:34
The National Green Tribunal Wednesday restrained Punjab from spending the first instalment of Rs 16.13 crores being disbursed by Union Urban Development Ministry for controlling contamination of under-ground water in the state till it examines the details as to how they want to spend the money.
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 30, 2014, 16:36
In a significant breakthrough, scientists have synthesised a catalyst that improves the system for converting waste carbon dioxide into syngas -- a precursor of gasoline and other energy-rich products.
Last Updated: Thursday, July 31, 2014, 12:53
For rearing their young, bees need to be able to select flowers providing the most nutritious pollen and they know it even before landing on the flower simply by looking at the colour of the petals, says a study.
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 30, 2014, 12:57
A research focusing on four different case studies in France, the United States, China and India respectively has recently revealed that it might be impossible to continue to produce electricity and meet the demand of clean drinking water worldwide by 2040.
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 30, 2014, 13:42
Of the 100,000 tigers that once roamed in the wild a century ago, only 3,200 are left behind, the World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature has revealed in a report.
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 30, 2014, 00:27
A seers` group Tuesday warned the city administration of cancelling the Simhastha Kumbh Mela scheduled for July-September 2015 if encroachments are not razed and the Godavari river freed of pollutants.
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 30, 2014, 00:22
Global conservation organisation WWF today sounded an alarm over poaching of tigers and said that at an average, two wild cats are killed per week due to high demand of their body parts in Asian countries.
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 30, 2014, 00:12
Nepal`s tiger population has increased by 64 per cent in the last five years and the country plans to double their numbers by 2022, government said today.
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 30, 2014, 00:08
Two rare Sri Lankan leopard cubs have been born in a zoo in northern France, a boost for a sub-species of which only about 700 remain in the wild, the head of the zoo said today.
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