Choking Delhi vows pollution tax, car-free days to improve air 7/10/2015

India's polluted capital, New Delhi, will within two months impose a tax on commercial vehicles entering the city and prohibit the use of cars on certain busy routes once every month, its transport minister said on Tuesday. ...more

ADB to lend Bangladesh $45 million for water resource project 7/10/2015

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is part-funding expansion of a water resources project in southwest Bangladesh that has sharply increased agriculture production and benefited nearly 200,000 people, it said on Tuesday. ...more

Korean energy economist to head UN climate science panel 7/10/2015

A South Korean professor of climate change economics will lead the Nobel Prize-winning group of climate scientists who keep track of global warming. ...more

Sneezing monkey and walking fish among new species discovered in Himalayas 7/10/2015

A monkey which sneezes in the rain and a “walking” fish are among more than 200 new species discovered in the Eastern Himalayas in recent years. ...more

India court gives New Delhi three days to come up with plan to fight pollution 6/10/2015

India's Supreme Court has given New Delhi three days to come up with a plan to clean up the air in a city ranked by the World Health Organization as the most polluted in the world. ...more

California closes loophole in ivory trade 6/10/2015

It will be illegal to sell almost all ivory products in California under a measure signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown that closes a loophole in the state's nearly 40-year-old ban on the sale of elephant ivory. ...more

Nature thrives in Chernobyl, site of worst nuclear disaster 6/10/2015

Some 30 years after the world's worst nuclear accident blasted radiation across Chernobyl, the site has evolved from a disaster zone into a nature reserve, teeming with elk, deer and wolves, scientists said on Monday. ...more

U.S. says BP to pay $20 billion in fines for 2010 oil spill 6/10/2015

BP Plc will pay more than $20 billion in fines to resolve nearly all claims from its deadly Gulf of Mexico oil spill five years ago, marking the largest corporate settlement of its kind in U.S. history, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Monday. ...more

Almost a third of cactuses at risk of extinction: study 6/10/2015

Almost a third of cactuses are at risk of extinction because of threats including illegal trade and a spread of farms in arid areas, making the spiny plants among the most vulnerable species, scientists said on Monday. ...more

UAE says to invest $35 billion in clean energy by 2021 5/10/2015

The gas-rich United Arab Emirates will invest $35 billion in clean energy by 2021 as it seeks to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels following crude's global price slide, it said Sunday. ...more