India's queue for toilets is the longest

If you stretched all 774 million people in India now waiting for household toilets, the queue would ...

Deadly mosquito bites

As Delhi and other parts of the country battle the surge in dengue cases, here is a ...

Vanishing beauties

With reports confirming that Islamic State militants have destroyed Palmyra's ancient temple of Baalshamin in Syria, we ...

Slums and Society

A slum, as defined by the United Nations agency UN-HABITAT, is a run-down area of a city ...

Water stressed world

ABOUT 750 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER About one-fifth ...

13 smarter ways to fight wildlife crime

Poachers will run out of luck with countries using these promising technological tools to detect wildlife crime ...

One person is displaced every second by disasters

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) estimates that disasters forced more than 19.3 million people in 100 ...

India ranks third in the world in the LEED Green Building rankings

The rank can be a powerful tool in the country's efforts for the 100 Smart Cities initiative

A look at what scares countries the most

Most respondents in developing countries are worried about climate change

Dying kingdom

Species that could vanish in 2015 if we don’t act now

Generation 2030 | Africa

A new report from UNICEF, Generation 2030 | Africa, shows how Africa, already the world’s second most ...

Climate smart agriculture

A look at how communities around the world are growing crops keeping in mind the sustainability factor

Top green start-ups of 2014 | From Mobile Solar Computer Classrooms to Novel Baobab Products

Every year, the SEED Awards select innovative start-ups working on social and environmental causes in the developing ...

Africa's water: the path to universal access

Since 1990, almost two billion people globally have gained access to improved sanitation, and 2.3 billion have ...

Air Pollution Costs Europe US$ 1.6 Trillion

Dirty air costs Europe about a tenth of its GDP, with Germany, the UK and Italy among ...

Sinking Beauties

Sea levels that are rising as a result of climate change are biggest threat for most of ...

Dear Mr Finance Minister

India's budgets through the decades

AAP's AGENDA FOR DELHI

Living with Bhopal disaster

A photo chronicle of lives and times of Bhopal gas disaster survivors collated from our archives. Last ...

Mr Modi, Wish us a Happy Environment Day