TOKYO: Japan said on Friday it would slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 26 per cent by 2030 from 2013 levels and would submit the plan to the United Nations later in the day as its contribution to ...More

TRICHY: The annual wildlife census in areas falling under the Trichy Forest Division is all set to begin from next week. Forest officials are already in the process of roping in wildlife enthusias ...More

The government claims a steady increase in the country’s forest turf since 1999. But official data indicate it may be missing the woods for the trees. Records show the country may have lost close to 1 ...More

BHOPAL: Genetic engineering has become a hot button for debate and misinformation. When scientists genetically modifies a plant, they insert a foreign gene like a bacterium resistant to pesticide. And ...More

Varsities running courses in Life Sciences and Zoology and having facilities for animal dissection have been asked by the University Grants Commission (UGC) to register themselves with Control and Sup ...More

Varsities running courses in Life Sciences and Zoology and having facilities for animal dissection have been asked by the UGC to register themselves with Control and Supervision of Experiments on Anim ...More

A recent article published in the Science Advances journal has raised the spectacle of apocalypse with the undeniable findings of the researchers and scientists that the earth has entered sixth mass e ...More

MUMBAI: A whopping $200 billion worth of wheat, rice and maize crops could be lost by 2050 globally if the issues arising from global warming are not addressed on a war-footing, an independent study ...More

A whopping USD 200 billion worth of wheat, rice and maize crops could be lost by 2050 globally if the issues arising from global warming are not addressed on a war-footing, an independent study on the ...More

The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in December will feature all the tightly choreographed production values of a Hollywood blockbuster. The cast will be huge: presidents and prime m ...More

An international group of climate scientists, energy analysts, and experts in risk from finance and the military today released a new independent assessment of the risks of climate change, designed to ...More

Global warming-induced food and water shortages may cause mass migration, competition for resources and state failure, providing fertile ground for conflict and terrorism, analysts warned today. I ...More

If global warming continues at the present rate and the world warms up by 4 degrees Celsius over the next 100 years, there is a chance of cities in north India becoming so hot that outdoor activitie ...More

Volcanic eruptions may have slowed down global warming by injecting particulates into the atmosphere, according to a study. Volcanic aerosols have acted during the last 10 years as a natural umbre ...More

HYDERABAD: The ensuing Godavari Pushkaralu may throw up a daunting task for the AP and Telangana governments in terms of huge solid waste generation during the 12-day river festival. About 30,000 ...More

The world's monitored seabird population has dropped 70 percent since the 1950s, a stark indication that marine ecosystems are not doing well, says a study. Researchers compiled information of 500 se ...More

More than a fortnight after heavy rains and the ensuing flash floods battered Saurashtra and Amreli district in Gujarat, killing more than 70 people, the flood's actual toll on wildlife too has come t ...More

Degradation of Pichavaram mangroves started in 1930s, when the British government introduced clear-felling system of management. In this system, mangrove forests were clear-felled in small coupes of ...More

NEW DELHI: National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) on Thursday got an accreditation from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) - a global multilateral fund that is meant to assist developi ...More

Climate change is shrinking the geographic range of many bumblebee species in North America and Europe, putting them in danger of future extinction, scientists say. In a study of 67 species, research ...More