The apex Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) of the environment ministry has gifted away 5,000 hectares of pristine forest, much of which provides crucial corridors for animals to move from one habitat to another.

While the official position is that the Forest Rights Act (FRA) has been diluted only for linear projects, green activists already fear the worst.

In a bid to stem the growing tide of criticism against the green ministry, environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan went into an overdrive to explain that her ministry was not anti-development.

The environment ministry is hardly a “green roadblock ministry” as is being made out by the PMO.
The MoEF’s Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) on River Valley and Hydroelectric Projects considered a total of 262 hydropower and irrigation projects in the last six years and green signalled every single one of them.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh batted for both environment and development insisting these were not mutually exclusive.

High-profile Rajasthan forest minister Bina Kak finds herself caught in an unusual controversy.

WWF, IIT-Kanpur and the Dehra Doon-based People Science Institute (PSI) monitoring the daily inflow of water being released in the Ganga river at Allahabad believe the UP government has failed to ensu

One of the two orphaned tigresses of Ranthambore national park was relocated to Sariska on Tuesday. Given the unusual name of Bina 1, after the Rajasthan forest and tourism minister Bina Kak, her presence in the Sariska national park will give a boost to the tiger relocation work being done by the environment ministry bringing the number of big cats to five along with two cubs in this reserve.

An environmental scientist’s arrest for granting clearance for a limestone mine in Orissa is the tip of the corruption iceberg that is floating freely in the environment ministry.

Experts have taken the government to task over the preparations made for the expected 100-200 million pilgrims expected to arrive at the Maha Puran Kumbh Mela spread over 55 days.