BEIJING: Fang Yang, mother of a four-year-old girl, was among the thousands of Beijing residents who woke up on Tuesday unsure how to respond to the first day of the red alert on air pollution. Man ...More

New Delhi: China, European Union (EU) and the US will use up by 2030 at least 28% of the total carbon space left for the world, the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) said. Carbon space ...More

Glaciers on Mount Everest, source of major Asian rivers like Brahmaputra, have shrunk by 28 per cent over the past 40 years due to climate change, according to a report. The glacial shrinkage area is ...More

PARIS: Annual global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels could drop slightly in 2015, even as India figured as the fourth top emitter in 2014, accounting for 7.2 per cent of worldwide emissions ...More

After a high-profile start last week, that featured 150 heads of states, the international climate change summit atParis entered its 'high-level' segment on Monday and environment ministers from acros ...More

Performing Group’, a production ensemble from Germany, set the creative sparks of the City ablaze with their artistic piece, ‘TRASHedy’. Recently performed at Ranga Shankara, JP Nagar and supported by ...More

The single most important parameter to decide the success of the UN climate change conference in Paris would be if the world leaders can put together a mechanism to hold global warming at 1.5°C. Ever ...More

A four-year global effort to craft a binding deal to brake rising world temperatures enters an intense home stretch on Monday, with senior officials in Parisstepping up pressure to resolve the most co ...More

Environment Ministers from across the world today converged here for crucial talks in the final leg of the climate summit amid hopes to secure a concrete pact to curb greenhouse gas emissions as a “pr ...More

India will join the league of Europe and the United States by setting up a chain of observatories, across the Himalayas, deserts and islands, to monitor the impact of climate change. While making thi ...More

Rita Banerji’s two award-winning films make a case for community effort required for environmental protection With climate change, global warming, green house effect, deforestation, extinction of sev ...More

A NEW scientific report, claiming that global emissions of carbon dioxide might have fallen this year, injected a fresh dose of optimism into the Paris climate talks as negotiators began the final das ...More

The new facilities under ILTEO will assess the health of eight different biomes. India on Monday announced a programme to open eight more long-term ecological observatories to study the effects of cl ...More

Country burns one-seventh of the coal consumed by the top two nations: Prakash Javadekar. Painted as a roadblock in the climate negotiations by many on its plans to use more coal and defer scrutiny f ...More

Global warming may cause more frequent heat waves and of longer duration in many regions of the country, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Monday. “As per the fifth Assessment Report of ...More

Paris: Global climate change talks in Paris moved into a new, tougher phase on Saturday as negotiators agreed on a draft accord, albeit one that still leaves hundreds of points of dispute for minister ...More

How do we square this circle? On the one hand, the world has come together to tackle the threat of global warming. More than 150 countries have set out their intended nationally determined contributio ...More

PARIS: Ahead of key ministerial talks, India on Sunday said it is determined not to make the Paris climate meet like past summits where nations returned with "false optimism and fictitious hopes" and ...More

LE BOURGET: As negotiators and ministers work towards framing a global agreement on climate change, the question of money and who should provide it remains contentious. It is unlikely that a meaningf ...More

Ahead of key ministerial talks, India on Monday said it is determined not to make the Paris climate meet like past summits where nations returned with "false optimism and fictitious hopes" and would e ...More