KOLKATA: A senior American diplomat has cautioned that Indian cities, including Kolkata and Delhi, may have difficulty in retaining and attracting talent if they do not clean up the air. Speakin ...More

The Arctic ice cap this year is the smallest it has been since the late 1970s, when satellite monitoring of the polar region began and the experts attribute the shrinkage to climate change and global ...More

India has a plethora of laws governing the country’s forests. But strange as this may sound, it does not have any definition of forests and forest land in the two major central acts: The Indian Forest ...More

Usha Ghatowar smiles wryly when asked about the pay she earns picking leaves at a colonial-era tea garden in Assam. "Do you think Rs 3,000 are enough when your monthly expenses can be double that?" s ...More

Pledges made by countries to slash carbon emissions are deeply inadequate to take them down to safe levels by 2030 and put the brakes on global warming, a new analysis warned today. Based on the s ...More

KOLKATA: A senior American diplomat has cautioned that Indian cities, including Kolkata and Delhi, may have difficulty in retaining and attracting talent if they do not clean up the air. Speaking t ...More

Sunderbans, the world’s largest mangrove delta is facing a grave threat. Huge environmental damage caused by global warming is taking its toll on the region and posing a double threat to local residen ...More

Bogged down by poor conservation of wetlands across states, the ministry of environment, forests and climate change(MoEF&CC) has prepared fresh draft guidelines to amend the Wetland (Conservation and ...More

Climate change threatens some of China's most important infrastructure projects, China's top meteorologist warned in a state newspaper, adding the country's rate of warming was higher than the global ...More

It is completely baseless to say that the Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar, and his friends in industry are out to finish off what little is left of the Himalayas, ...More

TOKYO: Japan is planning to pledge a 26 per cent cut in its greenhouse gas emissions from 2013 levels, ahead of a global summit on climate change this year, officials said Friday. The figure, usin ...More

New Delhi: One in six species on earth face extinction if carbon emissions and temperatures continue to rise at present rates, according to a study published in the Science journal on Thursday. If t ...More

One in six species on Earth could be threatened with extinction from climate change unless steps are taken to reduce global warming emissions, new research has warned. According to an analysis of more ...More

WASHINGTON: One in six species on Earth could be threatened with extinction from climate change unless steps are taken to reduce global warming emissions, new research has warned. According to an ...More

NEW DELHI: In defiance of the National Green Tribunal and virtual abuse of the judicial process, union ministries and governments across NCR didn't submit their views on banning diesel vehicles more t ...More

Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today said green house gas emissions from residential sector was around 6.3 per cent of total national emissions, while the highest was from electricity producti ...More

The United States and Japan will miss a UN deadline on Thursday to firm up promises to provide billions of dollars for a new UN fund intended to help developing nations tackle global warming, the fund ...More

NEW DELHI: Over 12 lakh hectare of forest land was diverted in the last 34 years for nearly 25,000 non-forest projects, government today said. Replying to a question in Rajya Sabha, Minister for E ...More

Global warming will eventually push 1 out of every 13 species on Earth into extinction, a new study projects. It won't quite be as bad in North America, where only 1 in 20 species will be killed ...More

NEW DELHI: Over 12 lakh hectare of forest land was diverted in the last 34 years for nearly 25,000 non-forest projects, government today said. Replying to a question in Rajya Sabha, Minister for Envi ...More