A scorching summer, the hottest in a century, combined with an acute water crisis, has brought life to a halt for millions of Indians.

India has made a special pitch to stop deforestation from logging, crop-growing and cattle grazing at the Oslo Conference on climate and forests since this is calculated to account for upto 20 per cent of carbon dioxide presently being released into the atmosphere. Environment secretary Vijai Sharma present on Wednesday at the meet

Three forest officers have been suspended for allegedly attempting to cover up the killing of a 30-month-old tigress which died in the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh on May 19.

With 159 children below five dying due to malnutrition in 2009, Madhya Pradesh is facing an acute food security crisis. The state suffers from the lowest food consumption levels in India which have further declined from 11 kg per month to 9 kg per month over the last five years.

Minister for forests and environment Jairam Ramesh believes India is building an important link between climate change and biodiversity by creating an Indian version of the IPCC.

Will cyclone Laila stall the progress of the Indian monsoon which provides four-fifth’s of the country’s rainfall and which will also provide relief from these scorching temperature?

The ministry of forests and environment (MoEF) finds itself in the throes of a fresh controversy. The only e-waste company Attero Recycling, to which MoEF has allotted a licence, has been caught reselling the waste rather than re-cycling it.

Climate experts at the first South Asian Climate Outlook Forum (SACOF) meet comprising South Asian countries who met in Pune last week believe the monsoon this year could be less than normal. Countries attending the meet included Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, all of whom are dependent on the monsoon for their food production.

Greenpeace radiation experts have identified eight hotspots in New Delhi’s Mayapuri locality which have 5,000 times the natural background radiation defined as “safe” by the department of atomic energy.

Repeated efforts by minister for environment and forests (MoEF) to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi to explain exactly what he said in his “off the cuff remarks” in China have been to no avail.