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Chemicals leaching from plastic pollution may be harming ocean bacteria which produce 10 per cent of the oxygen that we breathe, a study has found.

Agra: A city-based leading environmentalist has raised objections over the initiation of the proposed Agra Metro Rail Project worth Rs 8779 crore without seeking prior approval from the departments

NEW DELHI: Preparing a key proposal for the new government, the Union environment ministry has decided to “re-engineer” its existing environment impact assessment (EIA) notification and bring a com

A powerful earthquake stuck Papua New Guinea on Tuesday evening, triggering a tsunami alert for the country and for the nearby Solomon Islands.

Punjab’s woes are worsening on the water front.

After it has come to light that brinjal crop in a Fatehabad village is genetically modified, chief secretary DS Dhesi on Tuesday held a meeting of senior officers and decided to form a committee co

This means as much as half of the trash generated by more than 2,500 hazardous-waste-generating industrial units in the State gets buried in landfills.

MANGALDAI: Much has been said about maintaining the healthy academic environment in academic institutions and keeping these institutions totally free from any non-academic matter.

GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat government’s proposed ‘State Draft Water Policy’ is stuck in bureaucratic red-tape for the past few years.

AGRA: In an innovative and artistic way to motivate people on keeping Yamuna clean, a group of foreigners from different South American countries have collectively built a 2.5-metre-tall statue of