NEW DELHI: India along with 12 other countries, including China, today expressed strong reservations to any obligatory review mechanism on them regarding climate change and demanded that upcoming Pari ...More

Is it climate change? Reaching its likely minimum extent for 2015, Arctic sea’s minimum ice extent was the fourth lowest in the satellite record since observations from space began. The analysis by N ...More

GUWAHATI: The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)'s rhino task force has suggested that the CBI should be given the mandate to investigate, suomotu, those cases of rhino poaching in which the ...More

Oslo: Burning all the world’s fossil fuel reserves could thaw the entire Antarctic ice sheet and push up world sea levels by more than 50 metres (160 feet), over thousands of years, an international s ...More

VARANASI: Before the newly established Malaviya Research Centre for Ganga, River Development and Water Resource Management (MRCGRDWRM) at BHU becomes fully functional with financial support from UGC, ...More

The Kerala Forest Department is embarking on a unique project to utilise the magic of bird melodies for conservation. An event to be hosted by the department here on September 18 will provide a venue ...More

Washington: Defying earlier fears, the Antarctic Ocean has been absorbing increasing amounts of carbon dioxide over the past decade, researchers reported on Thursday. The findings upend estimates, pu ...More

PORT MORESBY: Pacific island leaders have agreed to disagree on how to tackle climate change, after Australiaand New Zealand blocked a bid from low-lying island nations for a tougher global target. P ...More

The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), a global forum studying climate change, recommended that there should be zero emission of greenhouse gases by 2100 to avoid further rise in tempe ...More

As a December deadline looms, diplomats wrangling over the text of a climate rescue pact kicked the can further down the road on Saturday, frustrated at their own lack of progress. On the final day o ...More

PORT MORESBY: Vulnerable Pacific island nations will this week send the world an urgent plea for action onclimate change at crunch talks in Paris later this year. Some Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) cou ...More

For ages, philosophers and sages have believed and preached that trees are among the most prominent and critical organisms on our planet Earth that store huge amounts of carbon, are essential for the ...More

NEW DELHI: The environment ministry is putting together the final version of norms that will determine which parts of forests in India will be declared completely out of bounds - or 'inviolate' — for ...More

Frustrated negotiators enter the final day on Friday of a halting round of crunch UN talks to forge a workable draft for a climate rescue pact to be inked by the year's end. Diplomats have lamented t ...More

As a December deadline looms, diplomats wrangling over the text of a climate rescue pact kicked the can further down the road today, frustrated at their own lack of progress. On the final day of ...More

Bonn: As a December deadline looms, diplomats wrangling over the text of a climate rescue pact kicked the can further down the road Friday, frustrated at their own lack of progress. On the final day ...More

I write this piece as a gushing river winds its way through mountains draped in pine and fir trees, with white clouds tugged across the sky by gentle winds. Every inch of land around me is covered in ...More

NEW DELHI: In what could can termed a strong message to rich countries ahead of the crucial Paris climate talks later this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday sought to change the discourse ...More

Climate change is a “pressing” global challenge and the poor people are ‘most adversely’ affected by it, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said and suggested a shift of the discourse on the issue fro ...More

The master plan to develop 50 solar cities across the country, approved by the Union cabinet, can give a major boost to the generation of solar energy and its use. The cities have been selected on the ...More