India's "unique" Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve in the Western Ghats is among 20 new sites added by the UN's top cultural body UNESCO to it...

India's "unique" Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve is among 20 new sites added by the UN's top cultural body UNESCO.

Environmentalists are doubtful over the findings of recently conducted Ganga Dolphin Census citing increasing pollution load in Ganga.

Community rights under the Forest Rights Act could transform the lives of millions of forest dwellers, but only if the bureaucracy is pushe...

Studies and research proposals include dissemination of best practices of biodiversity conservation, monitoring of glaciers receding, clima...

Among total 18 CDBRs of the country, only Spiti area of Himachal Pradesh was declared "cold desert biosphere reserve" in 2009.

The Unesco has designated India’s Nicobar Islands as a world biosphere reserve under its Man and the Biosphere Programme.

The highly threatened Nicobar islands of India – home to 1,800 animal species and some of the world’s most endangered tribes, has now been ...

Our aim must be to eliminate poverty, target assistance to the poor and needy, help regenerate our natural environment and simplify the tax...

Chennai scientist bags UNESCO award for his research on the fishing of sea cucumbers in the Gulf of Mannar.

The reserves at Simplipal in Orissa, Norkek in Meghalaya and Panchmarhi in Madhya Pradesh are added to the list on Wednesday bringing the t...

The Greater and Little Rann of Kutch have finally got the much-awaited status of biosphere reserve. The Central government's decision to gr...