The Covid-hit 2020 was also the warmest year on record, just barely exceeding the record set in 2016 by less than a tenth of a degree. The planet is also seeing more slow-travelling hurricanes that stall, bringing prolonged rainfall to an area, likely as a result of climate change.Read News

Delhi: As the world is marking Environment Day on June 5, (Friday), India's Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar launched a massive afforestation drive called "urban forest programme” in 200 corporation cities of India.Read News

The people residing in the national capital city breathed a sigh of relief as Delhi's air quality improved to the 'moderate' category on Friday. The light rains in parts of the national capital on Thursday morning played a major role in improving the city's air quality. Read News

An earthquake, with an epicentre 173 kilometers from Lahore in Pakistan, jolted several parts of North India and Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday evening. Heavy tremors were felt in Delhi-NCR region including Gurugram on Tuesday evening at around 04:30 pm. According to reports, tremors were also felth in New Delhi, Chandigarh, Kashmir as well as several towns in Pakistan, including Islamabad and KhyRead News

The weather office has warned of more thunderstorms in north, north-east and parts of south India for the next two days after Sunday's thunderstorm and dust storm left behind a trail of destruction in four states.Read News

Thunderstorm and rains are likely in several areas of Delhi and adjoining NCR. According to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), light rain and thundershowers are expected in Faridabad, Ballabhgarh, Khurja, Greater Noida and Bulandshahr, apart from the national capital.Read News

Indian Meteorological Department official has predicted another dust storm in parts of Rajasthan and UP over the next two days. The dust storm on Wednesday left behind a trail of destruction killing at least 109 people and injuring nearly 200.Read News

A heavy dust storm swept across several parts of western and northern India on Wednesday, killing at least 68 people and injuring hundreds in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand and leaving a trail of destruction, uprooting trees and disrupting power supply in Punjab and Haryana as well. Read News

From January 24 to January 29, 2018 at Diggi Palace in Jaipur, environmental concerns will feature in a number of insightful and impassioned discussions: The Vanishing Stepwells of India; The Vanishing: Tigers, Forests and Nature; Why We Must Protect the Aravallis; Conflicts of Interest: Betrayals of the Earth, Greed and Human Aspiration; The Last Wave: Islands in Flux and River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India's Future, among yet others.Read News

Delhi NCR's air quality deteriorates with unfailing regularity at this time of the year, with large swathes of north India in the grip of a suffocating smog, but the State governments that can make it easier for millions to breathe do not act with any sense of urgency. Read News