How many people have access to safe drinking water, toilets?
Use this interactive guide to check progress made by people in providing safe drinking water, sanitation to their people since 1990.
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Are you aware of Climate Change...?
With every passing day, climate change is making its presence felt; sometimes by affecting new regions, and sometimes by demonstrating its raging power. Yet, it remains an elephant in the room with climate
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Extreme weather and Climate events 2013
Over the past several months, the pattern for extreme events that we saw in 2012 continued into 2013. In early 2013, parts of the Southern Hemisphere witnessed record-high temperatures, with Australia
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All you need to know about El Nino
El Niño is a local warming of surface waters which takes place in the entire equatorial zone of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean and which affects the atmospheric circulation and direction of winds
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When El Nino brought drought to India
El Nino has a history of adversely impacting rainfall in India during monsoon. Here is a timeline of the years in which India witnessed droughts triggered by El Nino—the warming of sea-surface temperatures
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Living dead
Three decades after the Bhopal gas lead killed a few thousand people overnight, the struggle continues for its survivors. A number of issues concerning the survivors of the disaster, termed the biggest
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Climate Wheel
The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability-has warned of crop failures, water stress and health effects, all
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Wake up call
<p>Underscoring yet another reason why an ambitious climate deal must come out of upcoming COP21 talks in Paris, a new United Nations report warns of the "high price" of extreme weather disasters
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Making peace with nature: a scientific blueprint to tackle the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies
<p>This UNEP report communicates the current status of the world’s urgent issues -- climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution-- and opportunities to solve them</p>
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Extreme weather conditions during January 2014
From temperatures as low as -36C in Russia to some of the wettest weather in the UK’s history, this map shows the extreme weather events of january 2014 from around the world. The data was sourced from
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Extreme weather conditions during January 2014
From temperatures as low as -36C in Russia to some of the wettest weather in the UK’s history, this map shows the extreme weather events of january 2014 from around the world. The data was sourced from
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Green talk by our leaders- what environment means to them
What does environment mean to the political parties and their leaders in Delhi. Check out this interactive to find out promises made by the parties to win Delhi Assembly Elections 2013 and the quotable
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Emerging technologies- Smarter ways to fight wildlife crime
<p>Technology has altered the trade of wildlife products including ivory, rhino horn, pangolin scales, exotic birds and live apes. The Internet has boosted trafficking by lowering barriers of entry into
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How India commutes to work?
As Delhi's odd-even scheme prepares to make a comeback in April 2016, India Environment Poratl takes a look at what modes of transport, if any, India uses to get to work.
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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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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
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e-Cigarettes: To ban or not to ban
European Union diplomats have recently approved new anti-tobaco legislation, including the bloc's first rules on e-cigarettes, allowing most e-cigarettes to be sold as consumer products rather than more
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12 dams that changed the world
Dams illustrate the brilliance and arrogance of human ingenuity. They generate one-sixth of the world's electricity and irrigate one-seventh of our food crops. They have flooded land areas the size of
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While Delhi chokes, other cities also get a whiff of toxic air
<p>Air pollution has been Delhi’s persistent enemy. It rears its head at the onset of winter when heavy smog envelopes the national capital, reducing visibility and causing physical discomfort. While