In 2008, before the climate summit in Copenhagen, I wrote the book Soil Not Oil. It was a time when the intimate connections between climate and agriculture, air and soil were not being recognised in ...More

Ahead of the Paris climate change summit, India today said technology must provided to all countries without barriers even as it blamed the "historical cumulative" emissions of the last 150 years for ...More

Delhi government has convened a meeting of all concerned departments and organisations on Wednesday for control of air pollution. In the meeting, the department of environment will review measures in ...More

PUDUCHERRY: Stressing that the Territorial government was keen on protecting the environment, Electricity Minister T Thiagarajan said the government had taken efforts to tap renewable energy sources. ...More

NEW DELHI: Four Indian companies -- ITC Ltd, Tata Steel, Tech Mahindra and Wipro Ltd - have attained a perfect 100 Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) score and topped the Climate Disclosure Leadership In ...More

Bhutan has come up with a new way to pave its roads: waste plastic. As part of efforts to curb the use of fossil fuels and deal with growing amounts of plastic waste, the country plans to mix used ...More

A weather forecaster for French state television has been fired after releasing and promoting a book criticizing politicians, scientists and others for what he calls an exaggerated view of climate c ...More

They can’t vote yet, but dozens of young people want a say in the planet’s future, so minors nationwide have been suing states and the federal government in recent years to push action on climate chan ...More

Any plan for capping the rise of Earth’s surface temperature depends on replacing fossil fuels with energy sources that generate little or no carbon pollution. That means we must look towards renewab ...More

Some sites in the Arctic Ocean — once covered by sea ice — may see more than 100 additional days of open water, the findings showed. The entire Arctic coastline and most of the Arctic Ocean will e ...More

After sending fire crackers commonly used in Diwali and often handled by children to a private laboratory, NGOAwaaz Foundation has written to the chief minister and the Ministry of Environment, Forest ...More

Any plausible game plan for capping the rise of Earth's surface temperature depends on replacing fossil fuels with energy sources that generate little or no carbon pollution. That means renewables ...More

In the past fortnight, the Supreme Court has issued directions, ruling that every truck from neighbouring states, which are passing through the National Capital Region (NCR) with cargo not meant for D ...More

GENEVA: The Antarctic ozone hole has swelled this month to one of its biggest sizes on record, UN and US scientists say, insisting that the Earth-shielding ozone layer remains on track to long-term re ...More

If countries stick to their current climate commitments, global temperature could increase around three degree Celsius, according to a recent study. 155 countries representing around 90 percent of gl ...More

LONDON: If the countries stick to the climate efforts that they have now committed, these could lead to long term temperature increase to around three degree Celsius, a notch above the goal of limitin ...More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and 80 other world leaders will attend the two-week climate change conference in Paris this year, raising expectations that a global climate agreement would finally be sti ...More

A team of students from IP University, led by a professor from the university’s School of Environmental Management have discovered a new species of spider in Delhi’s Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary. T ...More

Paris: Warmer sea temperatures are forcing Indian Ocean king penguins to travel further for food, cutting into their breeding season researchers said on Tuesday, warning of a “serious threat” from cli ...More

BEIJING: Drylands could cover more than half of the world's land surface by 2100, if global emissions continue to rise, researchers have warned. According to researchers from Lanzhou University in ...More