Extreme is new normal
It is time to accept that we are beginning to see the impact of climate change in the form of increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, and this would get worse with rising temperature.
India Environment Portal
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Dying kingdom
According to a study published in the journal Nature, 41 percent of all amphibians on the planet now face extinction, while 26 percent of mammal species and 13 percent of birds are similarly threatened.
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The growing danger of bird flu
The growing danger of bird flu.
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MP Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo interview: championing the cause of climate change and low carbon development in Dist. Bolangir, Odisha
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India's killer heat wave
Nearly 2,000 people in the country have lost their lives to heat wave this summer. As these numbers continue to soar and experts debate on what lies ahead, a look at possible answers to questions that
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India Environment Portal Newsletter 01- 08 May 2015
The weekly digest of important reports, research, policy documents, regulations, studies, court cases, protests, conflicts, initiatives, photos, data, statistics, infographics, presentations on the India
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State of the world's mothers- The urban disadvantage
India scored poorly in the Mother's Index Rank standing at 140 out of 179 countries in the charity organization Save the Children's 2015 report titled "State of the World's Mothers" putting it behind Zimbabwe,
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Air pollution costs Europe US$ 1.6 trillion
A staggering US$ 1.6 trillion is the economic cost of the approximate 600,000 premature deaths and of the diseases caused by air pollution in the WHO European Region in 2010, according to the first-ever
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Evicted and abandoned
More than 3 million people were physically or economically displaced by nearly 1,000 World Bank-financed projects between 2004 and 2013.
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Largest earthquakes in the world since 1900
Around 3,617 people have died and over 6,500 people have been injured in Nepal, according to BBC, with rescue and relief operations going on in full swing. The toll may further rise as bodies are still
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114 years of rainfall in India
India gets 70% of its annual rainfall in the monsoon, which irrigates half the country's farmlands. In 2014, IMD had forecast that rainfall in June-September monsoon season would be 95% of the 50-year