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Last Updated On: 10/09/2021

Forest area inspection for 4-laning Jalandhar-Barnala highway on Friday

Age limit for vehicles won’t curb pollution: Centre to SC

Just two hours of exposure to diesel fumes can harm genes

Punjab govt offers incentives to curb stubble burning

Village shunning stubble burning to get Rs 1 lakh reward

Govt cautions agri officials against yellow rust attack

Sensitise people on use of rooftop solar plants: UT administrator

Panel to find ways to gauge pollution level

Forest officers to brain-storm on changes in green laws

Climate change hampering world food production: scientists

CSE releases counter-pollution strategy for Delhi government

Green India Mission converged with MGNREGA to reclaim forest

Rajasthan minister invites industrialists to summit

Stubble burning: Doctors to sensitise farmers

Govt begins giving out daily air quality bulletin for 11 cities

Rising pollution triggering asthma in healthy people

Government may make waste management a part of school curriculum

World Environment Day: ITBP to plant 10 lakh trees this year

Centre moots “one child, one tree” plan for green awareness

Top predator humans causing catastrophic ecosystem shifts: Study

ICAL adopts 150 cotton growers in district

Over 2 lakh saplings to be planted in kandi area

Fish farming subsidy extended to all dists

Industry a threat to wildlife in Sunderbans: experts

Isro to align with 170 govt projects to benefit aam aadmi

Today is World Ozone Day

Punjab to promote rain harvesting to check depleting water table

Getting eco stewards ready to care and conserve

Centre plans to make solar incentives WTO compliant

Now, Gross Environmental Product to calculate eco-systems’ health

For first time, WHO calls for urgent action to check climate change

Environment Ministry Launches New Website on National Clean Development Mechanism Authority

Farmers told to get soil tested

In Chandigarh, from tomorrow, avoid plastic or pay Rs 5000 fine

Government to Soon Launch Series of Stamps on Nations Environmental Profile Reach Out to Students to Create More Interest in Basic Sciences: Javadekar

National Institute of Wind Energy launches wind, solar online maps

Polythene ban: List of officials authorised to issue challans released

Ban on plastic: Prices of alternatives to polythene shoot up

Vehicles sans PUCC to be penalized

Over 2,000 students walk to rein in climate change

Soon, ordinance to ban polybags

Swachh Mission: 75 Cities to be Ranked on Cleanliness

Switch to CNG bus, cut per capita PM emission

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan kick start at plaza sector 17 Chandigarh

Green technologies can save airlines dollar 250 billions: NASA

Government has Taken Series of Steps to Address Pollution-Related Issues: Environment Minister

Human impact on environment may be slowing down, study shows

Your perfumes may pollute environment

Goa to host meet of BRICS environment ministers on September 16

Loss of elephants, megaherbivores could lead to rapid environmental changes: Study

With one eye on the environment

Study finds environmental cost of plastics nearly four times less than alternative materials

India second only to US in green building footprint

‘Wildlife, environment protection in India dates back to Kautilya, Ashoka’s time’

Environment enthusiasts discuss ways to increase survival rate of saplings

Adopt eco-friendly dyeing technologies for clean and green environment”

MAD launches green vote bank for environment protection

Health ministry to study deaths due to pollution soon: Environment Minister Anil Dave

Hydroelectric Projects: Environment ministry rejects PowerMin’s request to relax rules

India’s forest cover increasing, better than world average: Union environment secy

Earth Day: Students, environmentalists, MNCs join chorus to save planet

Material that changes properties according to environment developed

Environment protection: World is looking towards India, says PM

When faith helps protect environment

Grow food at home to save environment: Expert

G7 Environment Ministers to meet over Paris pact

ndia generates 1.70 million tonnes e-waste a year: Environment minister

India can do more on climate change with support: Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan

Arctic climate report card reveals ‘rapid and dramatic changes’ to the polar environment

Environment minister urges all states to shun plastic

Micro-beads in cosmetics a threat to environment

Big skill development programme by Modi government: Environment ministry launches plan to train 5.5 lakh workers

Environment ministry launches programme to train 5.5L skilled workers by 2021

National Clean Air Programme Wont Work Without Time Bound Goals: Experts

Environment Ministry bans single-use plastic items in its office

Google teams up with UN to track environmental changes

Environment, skill ministries ink pact to train technicians

Activists seek environment impact assessment of dams on Satluj

Air you breathe in rarely ‘satisfactory’

India bears 32 per cent global burden of respiratory diseases: Global Burden of Disease study

Shifting to healthy diet can improve your health and save water: Study

No polythene bags for saplings in nurseries

66 Lakh saplings planted in 6986 villages to mark 400th Parkash Purab of Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Ji: Dharmsot

Philadelphia to dim lights to make it safer for migrating birds

Cut benzene emission at fuel outlets, says committee

Advanced nations failed world on climate change: Nirmala Sitharaman

Rare migratory birds from Siberia spotted at Harike

Drastic decline in avian guests at Harike wetland

Punjab’s Harike Pattan wetland on alert after bird deaths at Pong Dam in Himachal

4 years on, project to treat effluents in Dera Bassi yet to take off

Supreme Court tells Punjab, Haryana to list steps taken to curb stubble burning

In Faridkot, 198 ponds cleaned for storing rainwater

Water in key dams lower than normal, monsoon too slips into negative

Ensure strict vigil to stop stubble-burning, depts told

Malwa records fewer stubble-burning cases than Majha

Punjab sees six-fold rise in incidents of stubble burning in first 20 days of harvesting

Stubble-burning cases rise 5 times in Punjab

Delhi environment minister calls crucial meeting ahead of stubble burning season

Punjab prepares to check stubble-burning

Cold-weather conditions abate in Punjab, Haryana

Treatment plants being set up to curb pollution, NGT committee told

Over 30 percent deaths in ’18 caused by fossil fuels: Study

Environment ministry constitutes commission for air quality management

Pusa capsules, developed by Indian Agriculture Research Institute, can accelerate decomposition process in plants and clear stubble without needing to burn it.

Decline in Punjab’s stubble burning area this year, says official

Spike in farm fires in Punjab to worsen air quality in border districts

Bathinda cleanest in Punjab, but slips to 79th ranking

Glacier blood? Watermelon snow? Whatever it’s called, snow shouldn’t be so red.

Water from Shahnehar barrage creates flood-like situation in lower Kangras mand area

Plastic bottle recycling machine installed in Mohali

Hundreds of fish die in Kali Bein

High-velocity winds damage 150 feeder lines in Punjab

PUSA-44 paddy variety an environmental hazard, need to discontinue its sowing: Punjab to Centre

UK strain to blame for surge in Punjab: Survey

NGT directs Punjab Forest Department to look into alleged cutting of over 2,000 trees in Faridkot

Chandigarh Municipal Corporation yet to finalise technology for processing waste

May records 2nd highest rainfall since 1901: IMD

Storms damage Rs25-cr power infra

High-speed solar storm approaching Earth; can interrupt cell phone, GPS signals

Doctors warn that current weather conditions and carelessness could aggravate COVID-19 symptoms

Northwest heat wave impossible without climate change

This woman-run startup uses crop residue to create bio-batteries

Third of Antarctic ice shelf area at collapse risk due to global warming

India pushes deadline for coal-fired utilities to adopt new emission norms

At 26°C, Ludhiana records coldest April day in five decades

Wild Buzz: Parched dam

World’s feral pigs produce as much CO2 as 1.1m cars each year, study finds

Monsoon revives over North India on a strong note, but rain deficient in Punjab, Haryana

Monsoon 16 percent deficient in Punjab, surplus in Haryana, Himachal

How and Why India’s Climate will Change in the Coming Decades

Paddy nursery, seeds for rain-hit farmers of Sangrur

Amita Deshpande’s reCharkha is giving a new spin to discarded plastic

What happens if all mangroves are destroyed? A plant scientist explains

‘Nowhere to run’, says UN on global warming

Earth to cross key temp limit, extreme events to become frequent: IPCC report

5 years on, Punjab’s first solid waste management plant yet to run to capacity

Change tack on paddy stubble issue, Central panel tells Punjab

Oxygen for India: Building a more resilient health system

Analysis: Asia’s vulnerable communities brace for worse impacts after UN climate report

Ludhianas Veterinary University discusses use of paddy straw as animal feed

Centre notifies ban on single-use plastic items from July 1, 2022, increases thickness of polythene bags to 120 microns

Govt bans manufacture, sale and use of identified single-use plastic items from July 1, 2022

Centre’s nod to equipment for straw management

IIT Ropar develops plant-based air purifier machine

Empower, incentivise farmers to curb farm fires

Punjab package to spur industrial use of paddy stubble