Over 4.5 lac kids engaged in various e-waste activities in India

In a shocking revelation, the ASSOCHAM has claimed that about 4.5 lakh of children between the age group of 10 to 14 are engaged in various e-waste (electronic waste) activ...

Hydro-power plants blamed for deadly floods in India

Badly managed hydro-power projects in northern India were partly to blame for devastating floods last year that killed thousands of people and caused extensive damage, an e...

Climate change may hit marine sector, says SAPCC

The marine and inland fisheries sectors in Kerala are likely to take a major hit as climate change affects fish stocks, resulting in decreased yield and loss of livelihood ...

Fish losing survival instinct in acidic oceans

Fish are losing their survival instinct — even becoming attracted to the smell of their predators — as the world’s oceans become more acidic because of cl...

6 years on, Maharashtra has no climate-change action plan

Even as rural areas in otherwise drought-hit regions of Maharashtra (as also in neighbouring areas of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh) struggle to cope with imme...

Kashmir loses Rs18 cr agri crop to bad weather

Srinagar, Apr 10: The continued bad weather this season has caused an estimated Rs 18 crore loss to agriculture sector in Kashmir.

A report prepared by Chief Agricu...

Is climate change responsible for the hail storms and unseasonal rainfall in Maharashtra?

Is climate change responsible for the hail storms and unseasonal rainfall in parts of Maharashtra? Or is it a one-off phenomenon?

The South Asia Network on Dams, Ri...

Freak climate in North India may damage crops; fears of El Nino phenomenon rising

Snowfall in the middle of March; heavy showers in the drying-up phase of the monsoon; catastrophic floods before the rainy season; searing heat in parts of south India &mda...

Global warming will reduce crop production by 2% every decade

Global warming will reduce the world’s crop production by up to two percent every decade and wreak $1.45 trillion of economic damage by the end of this century, accor...