As the ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) gears itself to give a final verdict on the steel giant Posco next week, several financial consultants researching on this `51,000-crore mega project have questioned the MoU signed between India and South Korea.

Is the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society more important for environment minister Jairam Ramesh than the endangered Olive Ridley turtles, a species that enjoys the same legal protection as the tiger?

Under pressure from large corporate houses, environment minister Jairam Ramesh admits his ministry is in the process of reviewing all the major environmental laws of the country.

The intractable environment minister Jairam Ramesh has softened his stand towards industry and admits to be working overtime to arrive at a workable compromise on the Lavasa hill city.

Captivity does not suit elephants. A recent survey of 367 captive elephants in the southern states of India has found that over 60 were suffering from TB.

With the asbestos cancer pandemic estimated to be causing 30 deaths per day in India, residents of Bishnupur-Chainpur in Muzaffarpur in Bihar are up in arms, protesting the setting up of a factory in their village.

Minister of state for environment Jairam Ramesh on Sunday ordered demolition of the “unauthorised” Adarsh highrise apartment building in Mumbai’s posh Colaba area within three months.

The ministry’s final order is based on the report of the ministry’s Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) team chaired by Nalini Bhat, which also highlighted that the Adarsh Society had not obtained nec

Barely one year after minister of forest and environment (MoEF) Jairam Ramesh and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi had said that the idea of interlinking of rivers would prove a “disaster”, Mr Ramesh has gone ahead and given an “in principle” approval to the `10,000 crores project linking river Ken in Uttar Pradesh with river Betwa in Madhya Pradesh.

The tussle between minister of forests and environment (MoEF) Jairam Ramesh and minister of coal Sriprakash Jaiswal for allowing coal extraction in forest areas continues unresolved with the Cabinet on Thursday having decided to constitute a group of ministers (GoM) to look into the issue of “no-go” mining areas.