Even as Greenpeace Australia denies charges of targeting an Indian energy major led by Gautam Adani for reasons other than environment safety, the Adanis say green activists are hampering India's progress
The BBC has cut thousands of tonnes of CO2 and reduced its energy consumption by 20%, according to the broadcaster's Corporate Responsibility (CR) report released today (21 July). The closure of Television
Forest ponds will be constructed to check the depleting groundwater and to harvest rainwater in Himachal Pradesh, state Forest Minister J.P. Nadda said Sunday.
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed Karnataka to release 2.44 tmc of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, though the Jayalalithaa government had demanded 12 tmc water ostensibly to save its standing crop.
A high level Pakistani delegation will visit the city on Monday morning to study whether the Sabarmati Rverfront Development Project could be replicated along Ravi river in Lahore. This four-member delegation
NEW DELHI: The Centre plans to create mega reservoirs by dredging the bed of the Yamuna for which the Dutch government has agreed to facilitate an action plan. "To rejuvenate the river and meet the water
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ramesh Chand Vs. U.O.I. & Ors. dated 12/01/2016 regarding encroachment of flood plain of River Salani, Village Sainwala, Tehsil Nahan, District
Smriti Kak Ramachandran
<p><img alt="" src="http://cdn.downtoearth.org.in/image/20071031/34.jpg" style="width: 340px; height: 189px; margin: 14px; float: left;" />This report shows that improved wastewater management is as much
Climate change, increase in agricultural land use and population growth may lead to severe water shortage in Nepal in the coming decades, according to a new study. Using a sophisticated modelling tool
Disappearing ground water could be the mother of all crises
MANGALORE: The Nethravathi Nadhi Thiruvu Yojaneya Virodhi Horatta Samiti has decided to up the ante against the proposed move to divert excess waters of the Nethravathi under the Yettinahole Project. Taking
Water from rivers across north Bengal has started receding following less rainfall in the hills and the plains, save a couple of places.
New lakes will be dug and reservoirs built, while old ones will be renovated by the Haryana government to fight drought in the future, the state's Finance Minister has announced.
<p>The World Bank has approved $1 billion as credit and loan to support India's efforts to clean up the Ganga river. The sprawling river basin accounts for a fourth of the country's water resources and is home to more than 400 million people.
Water Initiative Orissa (WIO), a leading environment body working for conservation of natural waterbodies, on Tuesday gave a call to vote for candidates who care for rivers and waterbodies in the coming
Between 1999 and 2012, there has been an alarming depletion of Natural Conservation Zones — forests, water bodies and wasteland — in the National Capital Region. In Delhi, water bodies shrunk by 22.6%,
The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought a report from the Secretary Water and Power in Manchar Lake water pollution case. A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry comprising
Climate change has shrunk Peruvian glaciers by 40 percent in the past four decades and the melt-off has spawned nearly 1,000 new high-altitude lakes since 1980, Peru's government said on Wednesday.
Over the past two decades, the international science and development communities have referred to a global water crisis that is emerging. Looking at the current situation in virtually every region of the
