With 2015 heading towards being the hottest year on record, India and China will negotiate for a treaty to put a check on the rising temperature. The two countries will formally move a proposal at th ...More

The UN’s Paris climate conference, designed to reach a plan for curbing global warming, may instead become the graveyard for its defining goal: to stop temperatures rising more than 2 degrees Celsius ...More

NEW DELHI: As negotiators from 190-odd countries gather in Bonn to work towards a consensus on an agreement to help slow down global warming, as the host of the crucial December round of negotiations, ...More

PANAJI: The Goa state pollution control board (GSPCB) is likely to complete the inspection of mining leases by this week. So far, 30 mining leases have been inspected by board officials. The boa ...More

PUNE: For more than a decade, the Abasaheb Garware College has offered an MSc course in biodiversity with the department emerging as a centre for research in this field. The management recently introd ...More

New Delhi: The intense heatwave sweeping across India could be another manifestation of an extreme weather event, a green body has said, warning that more heatwaves were in the offing due to rise in g ...More

MANGALURU: Surreal sight of toxic foam frothing from Varthur Lake, and the foam catching fire in Yemlur Lake in Bengaluru has caught the attention of union ministry of environment, forests and climate ...More

Odisha, which pioneered Climate Change Action Plan in 2010, is working on a similar exercise for the second phase covering the period 2015-20 to combat the challenges of climate change. "The state ...More

The Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP) will hold a workshop in methods of elephant handling to mark the first anniversary of the arrival of rescued elephants on Friday. The park will also welcome t ...More

New Delhi: Mountainous regions are warming faster than previously thought and thus there is an urgent need for rigorous monitoring of temperature patterns in such regions as records of weather patte ...More

Number of heat wave days may go up : CSE Here is more bad news for Delhiites. The Capital is now witnessing a rise in night-time temperature. And in worse news, the number of heat wave days has been ...More

HYDERABAD: The worst heat wave in living memory sweeping across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh is an "extreme climate event" and if steps are not taken to reduce human-induced warming, summer temperatur ...More

Do you want to know the real reason for the advances by Isis in Iraq and Syria? Changing lightbulbs in America. This is the explanation given by John McCain, Republican chair of the Senate armed servi ...More

New Delhi: There is “clear and compelling” evidence that rising emissions of greenhouse gases will cause dramatic changes in the Himalayas’ Mount Everest region in the next few decades with glaciers ...More

Bengaluru: When the national tiger census report was released in January this year, Karnataka had every reason to feel proud. The state is now home to 406 tigers, the highest in the country. There is ...More

The US has praised India for its “considerable momentum” towards clean energy, saying that over 10 per cent of the country’s electricity will come from renewable energy by 2022. “India has put forwar ...More

NANITAL: The advocate general told the Uttarakhand high court on Wednesday that no illegal mining activity will be permitted in Ganga river at Haridwar. The high court was hearing a public inter ...More

New Delhi, May 27: Glaciers girdling Mount Everest could lose nearly all their ice below altitudes of about 6,500 metres by the end of the century under an average temperature rise of about 3.1°C, a ...More

Earth Hour, a global campaign by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature to create awareness of global warming and climate change, will be observed in the city on Saturday. On the day, non-essential lights ...More

New Delhi: After a delay of two years, the environment ministry is finally moving to arrest the dwindling population of the Great Indian Bustard and put in place measures for conservation of the bird, ...More