Sep 9, 2019 Brasilia: The Brazilian Amazon lost 1,698 sq.km of its vegetation cover in August, an area 222 per cent higher than the deforestation recorded in the same month last year, according to official…
Sep 5, 2019 Mumbai: At least five persons were killed in different incidents as Mumbai notched record rains in the city and suburbs on Wednesday, which saw the country’s commercial capital paralysed for the third…
By Amit Kapoor Sep 1, 2019 New Delhi: When a 16-year-old girl who has avowed air travel has to cross the Atlantic in a solar-powered race boat to speak at a conference on climate change…
Sep 1, 2019 Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to conserve trees that are more than 100 years old and give them the status of ‘heritage’. The Principal Chief Conservator of forests (PCCF) Pawan…
Aug 30, 2019 Canberra: The health outlook for Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest coral system stretching 2,300 km, has been downgraded to “very poor”, according to the long-term projection report published on Friday.…
BY QUAID NAJMI Aug 29, 2019 Mumbai: For the first time in the 126-year history of sarvajanik (public) Ganeshotsav celebrations, a prominent association will unveil gigantic ‘eco-friendly’ idol of Lord Ganesha, here next week. The…
Aug 27, 2019 Brasilia (Brazil): Brazil government on Monday rejected the aid by G7 members to fight wildfires in the Amazon and asked French President Emmanuel Macron to focus on “France and its colonies”. This…
Aug 19, 2019 Islamabad: Authorities in Pakistan’s Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces have issued flood alerts after India released water into river Sutlej and the Alchi dam “without preschedule”, the media reported. The Provincial Disaster…
Aug 11, 2019 Lamjung: Newly discovered Kajin Sara lake in Manang district of Nepal is all set to become the world’s highest lake replacing Tilicho lake (also in Manang), which currently holds the title. The…
By Arjun Sharma Amritsar, Aug 10 (IANS/ 101Reporters) Amrik Singh, 46, a Bathinda-based farmer, was in despair after the entire cotton crop on his three-acre land was destroyed by whitefly in 2017. He then decided…
