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Notice to Assam over police battalion camp in Geleky reserve

New Delhi, May 8 -- The Union environment ministry has written to Assam government seeking a factual report on the alleged illegal diversion in 2022 of 28 hectares of the Geleky reserve forest on the ... Read More


Marine heatwaves since October last year leading to widespread bleaching of corals in Lakshadweep Sea

New Delhi, May 7 -- Marine heatwaves starting October 2023 have resulted in widespread coral bleaching in the Lakshadweep Sea, ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), said in a state... Read More


April temperature breaks heat records in many parts of India: IMD data

New Delhi, May 1 -- Temperatures in eastern and peninsular India has smashed records this April, exposing people to extreme heat for weeks together amid polling for the 2024 general elections. The har... Read More


Scanty winter rain a key reason for surge in Uttarakhand forest fires

New Delhi, April 28 -- Uttarakhand has recorded 6,701 instances of big and small forest fires this April, compared to only 900 in the same period last year, data from the Forest Survey of India has sh... Read More


Indian Ocean basin to see accelerated warming, says study

New Delhi, April 27 -- The Indian Ocean basin, the fastest warming basin in the world, will see accelerated warming at a rate of 1.7degC-3.8degC per century during 2020-2100, a new research paper has ... Read More


Nature, disasters have no borders: Modi

New Delhi, April 25 -- Natural disasters are becoming more frequent and severe, and need to be addressed with increased funding in disaster resilient infrastructure, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on We... Read More


A second commando battalion in Assam established without FC nod

New Delhi, April 24 -- A former Assam principal chief conservator of forests (PCCF), MK Yadava, who made the news for approving the construction of a commando battalion unit on the Assam-Mizoram borde... Read More


Mercury breaches 45degC in parts as heat spreads

New Delhi, April 22 -- Parts of east India, especially Gangetic West Bengal and Odisha, have recorded heat wave to severe heat wave conditions at a stretch for a week now in April, with day temperatur... Read More


Uttarakhand: Nod likely for hydro project washed away in 2013 floods

New Delhi, April 17 -- The environment ministry has started the process of granting environmental clearance to rebuild a hydropower project in the upper reaches of the Himalayas in Uttarakhand that wa... Read More


Row over battalion unit construction in Assam forest

New Delhi, April 10 -- A forest official in Assam allowed construction by a commando battalion unit in a protected forest, ostensibly to stop encroachments by Mizo people from neighbouring Mizoram, cr... Read More