The efforts of a few men and right state-backed initiatives have turned a marshy Odisha village of farmers and fisherfolk into a haven for migratory birds..

Around 4.63 percent of the geographical area of India are wetlands. A total of 757,060 wetlands have been mapped in the country. These ecosystems are among the most ubiquitous, but also quite overlooked despite their increasing confluence with human lives..

Altogether, an estimated 28 trillion metric tons of ice have melted away from the world’s sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers since the mid-1990s. Annually, the melt rate is now about 57 percent faster than it was three decades ago, scientists report in a study published Monday in the journal The Cryosphere..

Even a slight shift to a vegan diet can result in the significant improvement of the environment. What steps will you be taking?.

India ranks 102 in a list of 117 nations, with only 9.6% of its children in the age group of 6 to 24 months receiving a minimum acceptable diet.

If the government is serious about Swachh Bharat, it should appoint a globally acknowledged third party inspection agency like SGS . Let the agency do this work at no cost to the government and instead just collect a percentage of the fines (that were not paid) from defaulting companies..

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that efforts to limit global warming while feeding a booming population could be wrecked without swift and sweeping changes to how we use the land we live off..