According to a recent study, the heat wave will take the maximum toll on urban cities of India in the 2020s, with five urban areas to be affected the most. The five cities that will experience the ...More

From business-as-usual levels, higher than its earlier plan for a 15-30 percent cut. South Korea has finalised its 2030 target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 37 percent from business-as-usua ...More

The four BASIC nations — India, China, Brazil and South Africa — have voiced their concern at the lack of clarity on how developed countries will deliver the promised USD 100 billion every year from 2 ...More

Biodiversity conservation is not a destination but a journey. While the rationale for this long and enduring journey is clear, often the avenues are not, due to our inadequate knowledge of the interre ...More

NEW YORK: The developing countries' bloc of Brazil, South Africa, India and China have underscored that the ambitious Paris Agreement on climate change to be adopted later this year should "fully refl ...More

NEW DELHI, JUNE 29: The intensity of slow pulses of rainfall in the country has decreased over the past sixty years and is replaced by an increase in short, high intensity rainfall events known as ...More

NEW YORK: The developing countries' bloc of Brazil, South Africa, India and China have underscored that the ambitious Paris Agreement on climate change to be adopted later this year should "fully refl ...More

NEW DELHI: Even as India is making headlines with its rising air pollution levels, the water in the country may not be any better. An alarming 80% of India's surface water is polluted, a latest assess ...More

NAGPUR: The state government has constituted a 14-member management committee to ensure effective implementation of environmental safeguards for Lower Penganga irrigation and multipurpose project in Y ...More

A Dutch court on Wednesday ordered the state to slash greenhouse gas emissions nationwide by at least 25% by 2020, in a case that could serve as a blueprint for activists around the world. Climat ...More

LONDON: A new study has suggested that climate change can possibly erase 50 years of health advancements. University College London's Anthony Costello said that climate change has the potential to ...More

Politically fragile countries face breakdown as a result of mounting climate change pressures, and even stable ones may find coming shocks too big to manage peacefully, security and development expert ...More

We have been reading often the news of wild elephants trampling the labourers in coffee estates or destroying agricultural crops of farmers in villages. Compared to the individual kills by tigers/leop ...More

The effects of climate change are being felt on Wednesday, and future projections represent an unacceptably high and potentially catastrophic risk to human health, warns a new study published in The L ...More

LONDON: The threat climate change poses to human health is so great that it could wipe out health progress made over the past 50 years, says a report. "Impact of climate change on global health co ...More

The renewable-energy boom is here. Trillions of dollars will be invested over the next 25 years, driving some of the most profound changes yet in how humans get their electricity. That’s according to ...More

MUMBAI: A recent study on threat to human health from climate change, could have special relevance for countries like India which battle with extreme weather patterns. The analysis published in th ...More

If the monsoon showers have brought relief from the unrelenting summer, it has also exposed, once again, the country’s inability to deal with this yearly bounty. While Delhi had its first date with th ...More

There is about a one-in-five chance of the Sun entering the same kind of cooling phase that allowed "frost fairs" to be held on the frozen River Thames 300 years ago - but scientists warned that the n ...More

The threat climate change poses to human health is so great that it could wipe out health progress made over the past 50 years, says a report. "Impact of climate change on global health could be enor ...More