KOLKATA: The Indian Meteorological Department has finally woken up to the need for collecting more weather data from central Himalayas spanning Darjeeling, parts of Jalpaiguri and Sikkim. Currentl ...More

Coal is an environmentalist's bugbear. The use of coal to generate energy is the key reason the world is looking at a catastrophic future because of climate change. Recognising this, global civil soci ...More

The government has merged National Mission for a Green India, which aimsafforestation at 10 million hectares of land over the next decade, withMGNREGA to increase and improve the country's forest cove ...More

With an aim to resolve environmental problems all over the world, the International Conference on Global Environment Issues is being held from March 14 to March 15, 2015 at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. ...More

Officials struggled on Sunday to determine the scale of the devastation wrought by a monstrous cyclone that tore through the tiny South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu, with death counts varying in the ...More

SENDAI: Despite ominous predictions of mass devastation in cyclone-wrecked Vanuatu, policymakers at a UN disaster meeting in Japan do not seem to understand the pressing need to tackle climate change, ...More

New Delhi: Highlighting environment degradation and climate change as the foremost challenges confronting human civilization, vice-president Hamid Ansari on Saturday said India needs to pay greate ...More

NEW DELHI: The government has merged National Mission for a Green India, which aims afforestation at 10 million hectares of land over the next decade, with MGNREGA to increase and improve the country' ...More

New Delhi: Highlighting environment degradation and climate change as the foremost challenges confronting human civilization, vice-president Hamid Ansari on Saturday said India needs to pay greate ...More

Global carbon dioxide emissions from the energy sector stalled in 2014, the first time in 40 years during a period of economic growth, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said. By far the main c ...More

NEW DELHI: Rajasthan's capital Jaipur on Thursday joined a league of 74 other cities from across the globe for a city-to-city collaboration to tackle climate change and increase urban resilience. It i ...More

The pollution level was found to be high in the coastal cities of Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata and few tier-II cities, the government today said. "The sea water quality data collected under Coastal ...More

The fragile Sunderbans - the largest mangrove forests and delta region spread over both Bangladesh and India - is "hardly prepared" for climate change-related issues, experts said here on Thursday. ...More

It's always the Western Ghats that are in the spotlight and few know that its eastern counterpart has a rich biodiversity. A team from Chennai recently completed a three-year study on birds of the Eas ...More

WASHINGTON: India has joined the climate change challenge, US Secretary of State John Kerry today said as he praised Indian efforts to combat the growing menace. "During President Obama's trip to ...More

KOLKATA: The US Ambassador to India Richard Verma today said that the intersection ofclimate change, migration and governance will present new challenges for south Asian nations. "Climate change a ...More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the world needs to combat the ill-effects of climate changein the same way as it is combating terrorism. "The world has to combat the ill-effects of clim ...More

Observing that economic impact of climate change will be profound on South Asia, US envoy Richard Verma said on Wednesday that India was projected to face an annual loss of 2.2 percent of GDP by 2050 ...More

Victoria, Seychelles: Climate change poses serious threat to island nations like Seychelles as terrorism to the world, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said as he expressed India's deep commi ...More

Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, two Swiss pilots who are attempting to fly around the-world in a solar-powered plane, want 1.2 billion Indians to support their campaign for use of renewable ene ...More