NEW DELHI: Asked by the Supreme Court whether cracker bursting time could be restricted to between 5 pm and 10 pm on Diwali to curb pollution, the Centre on Tuesday diplomatically parried it, saying a ...More

This reflects their capacity to adapt to changing ocean conditions Washington: Corals may have a greater capacity to survive climate change than previously thought, a new study suggests. Some corals ...More

An Indian environment group was awarded this year's UN Climate Solutions Awards for their work with waste pickers and e-waste to tackle climate change. The prestigious award was bagged by Delhi-based ...More

By the end of this century, areas of the Persian Gulf could be hit by waves of heat and humidity so severe that simply being outside for several hours could threaten human life, according to a new stu ...More

With the state facing drought conditions following a rainfall deficiency of 40 per cent this monsoon, Maharashtra’s disaster management cell has proposed to set up a climate change study centre in Aur ...More

In September 2015, news of the first ever leopard population estimation was published. Including the felines living outside reserves, their population has been estimated to be anywhere between 12,00 ...More

Climate change poses a threat to human health and safety, but children are uniquely vulnerable, especially those in the poorest countries, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) said in a policy sta ...More

NEW DELHI: With only 4,000 snow leopards left in the wild and 500 of them in India, a new report has urged countries to take urgent action in the wake of climate change to save the endangered species ...More

Gao said he had suggested that China support and facilitate "sound, applied and inter-disciplinary research" to study and monitor the status of snow leopards in the country. A lack of basic informati ...More

Bonn: Diplomats crafting a global pact to defuse climate change are under no illusion that the quest will end in Paris in December. If anything, the latest haggle to prepare for the vaunted UN summit ...More

New Delhi: Over one-third of the habitat of the endangered snow leopard could be rendered unsuitable if climate change is not checked, said a report released on Friday. The report said it is not just ...More

Melting ice in a warming world threatens to further shrink the habitat of the snow leopard, adding to illegal hunting woes that are pushing the iconic big cat to extinction, said a study released on F ...More

Wildlife populations are suffering death by a thousand cuts as a result of human activities. Wildlife is being hunted, fished and poached. They are suffering from climate change and pollution. Disease ...More

‘Black carbon, ozone, methane and carbon dioxide behind 2.4 million deaths a year’ NEW DELHI, OCT 23: Clamping down on four key climate pollutants -- black carbon, ozone, methane, carbon dioxide - ...More

The Paris summit on climate change is scheduled from November-end. The World Bank has issued a dire warning. It is necessary that the global leaders realise the catastrophic consequences of further de ...More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi could formally announce at next week’s India-Africa forum summit a global alliance of 110 countries aiming to promote solar power for meeting growing energy requirements a ...More

A new WHO report has called for an urgent need to reduce emissions of black carbon, ozone and methane — as well as carbon dioxide — which all contribute to climate change. Frequently described as shor ...More

New Delhi, Oct. 22: A single-degree rise in average temperature over India could reduce the country's per capita growth by about 1 per cent, environmental scientists said today after a global study of ...More

A recent report from the OECD claiming $62 billion has have been mobilised as climate finance in 2014-15 against the developed countries’ commitments of annual $100 billion by 2020 has caused a storm ...More

Climate change could cause 10 times as much damage to the global economy as previously estimated, slashing output as much as 23 per cent by the end of the century, a new research paper from Stanford a ...More