Pune : A new study by the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research ( IISER) highlighted that, the hill slopes in Western Ghats, which are highly threatened by encroachments, are playing ...

Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has sought a more equitable Centre-state funding pattern under centrally sponsored schemes, ...

Madhav Gadgil, who passed away in Pune at the age of 83, was, at heart, a field ecologist who vouched for participatory forest and ecological protection. His 2011 report on the Western Ghats sparked a ...

India’s hill stations are often associated with the Himalayas or the Western Ghats, where multiple high-altitude towns enjoy ...

DHARWAD: Implementing the Western Ghats report prepared by noted ecologist Professor Madhav Gadgil in its true spirit would ...

Residents of two villages in the Indian state of Goa have petitioned the environment ministry for their villages to be recognized as “eco-sensitive areas.” The residents want their villages’ natural ...

The Aravalli Range is in the news following a recent Supreme Court-backed move to adopt a new, uniform definition of the Aravalli hills. This new, uniform definition states that a hill will be ...