Unused nuclear fuel rods stored in the Tarapur Atomic Power Station in Maharashtra for the last 40 years are posing a major health hazard to the local environment. Instead of reprocessing them, as several nuclear scientists have suggested repeatedly to the Indian government, it has baulked from doing so fearing international reprisals.

President Nasheed of Maldives is literally fighting with his back to the wall to ensure that his 1,200-island state does not sink because of the rising sea levels.
A two-day visit to India saw Mr Nasheed stress on how Maldives has been described as “one of the most vulnerable countries due to the impact of climate change” by the prestigious Portugal-based Climate Vulnerable Monitor 2010.

With the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) working overtime to protect the tiger population, poachers have now shifted their attention to killing leopards and selling their body parts as tiger parts.

With India losing 50 million trees annually to meet the fuel wood demand of the cremation sector, the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has launched an initiative to come up with a more scientific way to undertake wood-based cremation.

The efforts of the environment and forests ministry declare Kaziranga national park, which has the world’s highest density of tigers, as a Project Tiger reserve appear to have backfired.

With 60 tiger deaths recorded in 2010, environment minister Jairam Ramesh’s statement clarifying that critical tiger habitats located in tiger reserves do not infringe on tribals protected under the F

The ministry of health and family welfare’s interim report to inquire into irregularities in implementing the PATH-ICMR study using the human papillomavirus (HPV) in India has recommended the project be allowed to continue.

A three-member team comprising S.S. Agarwal, former director of Sanjay Gandhi PGI of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, S.P. Agarwal, former director-general of health services and Suneeta Mitta from AIIMS took the Andhra Pradesh government health authorities to task for having permitted hostel wardens and headmasters to sign consent forms on behalf of minor girls belonging to tribal communities in the PATH-ICMR study using the human papillomavirus (HPV) in India.

Putting to rest all controversy on India’s stand on the climate change debate, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh emphasised on Thursday that India is set to reduce the emissions intensity of our GDP by 20

There is some good news for tiger lovers: preliminary results of the second all-India tiger census, due to be released in March, show a rise in the tiger density of the country’s three major tiger lan