India Environment News Today

The devastation of this year’s monsoon season in India has been significant, as the problem of climate changed-boosted rain is worsened by unregulated development.

The activists, including L R Budaniya, met Chief Conservator of Forest (CCF), UT, T C Nautiyal, urging him to take measures to decrease the use of concrete paver blocks, cemented tiles on the green belts and kutcha roads.

A team of researchers at IISc studied the recurring foaming in Bengaluru’s Bellandur Lake for four years, and found multiple possible reasons for the phenomenon.

Each year, Delhi spends the winter choked in dangerous smog. So why is the scale of the problem not matched by a desperate, crisis-mode policy response?

The consequences of environmental abuse are not just aesthetic. They have profound economic costs too.

The report by Centre for Science and Environment and 'Down to Earth' is timely, but does not capture indirect impacts because there is no mechanism to record them, experts said.

As a first step, India has identified 19 plastic items that aren’t very useful but have a high potential to become litter, including plastic cups, straws, and ice cream sticks.

For two decades, the village of Dhinkia has pushed back against plans for destructive, polluting “development projects” in the area.

Asserting that India's role in damaging the climate is negligible, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said Indians have had no role in harming the planet and the need of the hour is to promote 'lifestyle for environment'.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the Economic Survey 2021-22 in the Lok Sabha on January 31.