The Centre advanced plans to designate the ecologically sensitive area in the Western Ghats after years of failed consensus. An expert pane...

The Centre issued a draft notification identifying 56,800 square kilometres of the Western Ghats as Ecologically Sensitive Areas across six...

“The report is unscientific and there are plenty of ambiguities which makes it difficult to implement. The report is opposed everywhere rig...

The report has identified over 1,500 villages in Karnataka as ecologically sensitive areas (ESA), which if implemented, would prohibit deve...

The latest draft, issued by the environment ministry on October 3, is exactly the same what the Centre had proposed in the February 27, 201...

The government has issued a fresh draft notification on Western Ghats which addresses all the concerns expressed by the six states falling ...

All existing mines will be phased out in 5 years of the final notification or on the expiry of mining lease. It has also banned new thermal...

The Center has extended the date for issuing final notification on earmarking Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA) in Western Ghats by two mor...

The government has come out with a fresh draft notification to declare Eco-Sensitive Zones (ESZ) in Western Ghats by superseding the earlie...

Chandy today met Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar and urged the Centre to accept the revised Eco Sensitive Areas.

Environment minister Prakash Javadekar will chair a meeting with the MPs from the Western Ghats states on August 3 in the Parliament to get...

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh today said such areas have to be marked as forest areas to ensure proper protection of ecologically sensitive...

Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar will hold a meeting tomorrow to review the progress of physical demarcation of Ecologically Sensitiv...

BJP members including Opposition Leader Jagadish Shettar demanded that the Chair allow adjournment motion to discuss the report.

Succumbing to the pressure of Kerala government’s demand, the Centre on Tuesday announced altering the boundaries of Ecological Sensitive A...

Almost 40% of the Western Ghats or 60,000 sq km of the green belt that runs across six states is set to become an Ecologically Sensitive Ar...

In what could dramatically alter economic activity in almost 45 districts across five states — Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tam...