Environment/Science
New York, Oct 22 (JEN): The Netherlands Monday submitted a request to the United Nations-backed International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea for provisional measures in a dispute with Russia over the recent arrest and detention of a ship used by Greenpeace International to stage a protest over oil drilling. more
Greenpeace shares concern on Phailin

New Delhi, Oct 12 (JEN): Environmental non-profit organisation Greenpeace India has shared the concern for the people of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, who face the devastation that will be cau ...

Water holds key to sustainable development: Ban

New York, Oct 9 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday stressed the vital role of water in sustainable development, highlighting in particular its importance with reg ...

Indian scientist Rituparna Bose unravels biodiversity mystery

New York, June 16 (IBNS): Kolkata girl Rituparna Bose, who now teaches at the City University of New York, has developed mathematical algorithms that give the most specific estimates of biod ...

UNICEF holds social media camp on sanitation

Mandu, Madhya Pradesh, Sept 12 (JEN) UNICEF hosted a two- day social media camp at Mandu from Sept 10 to 11, wherein around 30 bloggers, twitters, online Hindi web agencies and active Facebo ...

UN bats for ‘water secure world’

New York, May 23 (IBNS) Unless greater efforts are made to reverse current trends, the world will run out of freshwater, the United Nations said on Wednesday marking the International Day fo ...

Greenpeace demands action on climate change

New Delhi, Sept 27 (JEN): The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Friday approved and released the first of a series of four reports that will make up the Fifth Assessment ...