Anjali Lukose

The cost related to dealing with air pollution-related diseases is only set to go up, especially for the city’s poor, say scientists.

MPCB’s air quality data collected from Sion and Bandra in the past decade shows annual nitrogen oxide concentrations in the range of 60-80µg/m3

The tribunal had earlier ordered an expert bird survey of the area.

BMC’s draft DP released in February had, however, proposed new development on the 1,009 hectares of Aarey land, leaving only 232 hectares of the pristine green cover intact.

Green crab species requires around eight months for achieving marketable size to earn maximum profit.

An NIO expedition has unearthed rich, diverse marine life beneath Angria Bank off Maharashtra coast.

Drishti is far more accurate than the current imported systems being used, said IMD officials.

Departments to meet over the next couple of days to take decisions on relief.

A flash sale is a war. The victims are the clothes thrown on the floor, stepped on, dragged beneath greedy shoppers.

Fisheries department will now invite e-tenders for a contractor for fish feed and upkeep of the tanks.

Waste dumped by locals has taken up the space created after removing concrete around tree trunks following another NGT order.

"It was emanating a terrible smell and we buried it at the beach itself. It was a whale," said Range Forest Officer RH Patil.

The gold bars were recovered from dustbins at the first and last toilet cubicles of the washroom near the immigration arrival hall.

Residents claim this is the fourth instance of a leopard snatching a pet dog from the neighbourhood since the past two months.

In the last two years, an annual loss of about 300 livestock has been reported from the Junnar forest division.

Richest corporation of the country still has pockets where open defecation is the only choice.

At present, the animals are dependent on frozen meat from the animal husbandry department’s Quality Control Laboratory at Goregaon. The Laboratory tests the legal carabeef meat before it is exported.

Environment clearance committees working overtime to appraise projects to be sent for approval.

BMC engineers visited the campus and were keen on creating a constructed wetland near the main gate entrance to treat water from Powai village that flows through the IIT campus into the lake.