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Kerala has topped the Management Effectiveness Evaluation (MEE) for 2020-2025 conducted by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on Management Effectiveness of National Parks and Protected Areas.

In India’s efforts to reduce its dependence on conventional fossil fuels and move towards cleaner energy sources, the initiative of converting abandoned coal mines into solar power generation centres has emerged as an important and innovative step.

Medha Patkar and other environmental activists tried to hold a protest against bauxite mining in Raigad, Odisha which was opposed by the Odisha Police.

According to a study published in the journal Nature, researchers have discovered a new species of dinosaur 'Khankhuuluu mongoliensis' in Mongolia.

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is celebrated every year on 17 June.

The Jharkhand government has announced to set up the state's first tiger safari in the fringe area of ​​Barwadih Western Forest Range of Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR).

According to a research conducted by scientists at the University of Bristol, ancient carbon stored in the earth's crust for thousands of years is leaking into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide (CO₂) and the source of this CO₂ is the world's rivers.

The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) is an international statistical framework developed to integrate environmental and economic data. 

A recent report submitted by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) revealed that 80% of the environmental compensation funds remain unutilized. 

On a historic day, the Union Transport Minister inaugurated India’s first National Highway constructed using Bio-Bitumen — the Nagpur-Mansar Bypass on National Highway 44.