The six-day session of ADP, United Nation’s subsidiary body on climate change, has concluded here with nearly 200 member countries adopting the 86-page text as the basis for negotiation on reaching a ...More

MUMBAI: Finally, after a wait of four years, the BMC is ready with the city's new development plan (DP) and is scheduled to reveal it on Monday. The city's comprehensive development has been considere ...More

The risk of hunger and malnutrition could increase by 20 per cent due to climate change by 2050, endangering the lives of millions of people, a UN agency has warned. The United Nations World Food Pro ...More

The report of the High-Level Committee for reviewing environmental laws has a misplaced focus on speedy project clearances and wrongly attributes their delays to environmental laws The report of the ...More

British scientists have found that carbon stored in an isolated reservoir deep in the Southern Ocean re-connected with the atmosphere, driving a rise in atmospheric CO2 and an increase in global tempe ...More

Pakistan's largest city and financial capital Karachi could submerge into the sea by 2060 due to global warming, a top oceanographer has warned lawmakers amid reports of escalating threat of sea intru ...More

Pakistan's largest city and financial capital Karachi could submerge into the sea by 2060 due to global warming, a top oceanographer has warned lawmakers amid reports of escalating threat of sea intru ...More

The govt.’s corridor project — that will connect protected reserves from the outskirts of Bengaluru along the length of the Western Ghats — has been hit by paucity of funds With an expanding populati ...More

PARIS: For years, scientists and security analysts have warned that global warming looms as a potential source of war and unrest. Storms, droughts, floods, and spells of extreme heat or exceptiona ...More

UNITED NATIONS: As the global community readies to adopt an ambitious post-2015 development agenda, India has highlighted the importance of ensuring enhanced resources to developing countries to comba ...More

The Odisha government plans to add aggregate clean energy capacity of 1,000 Mw by establishing 3 to 4 solar parks in the state by 2020. The target, fixed by the state government in its draft Odisha ...More

Visakhapatnam: The rising sea surface temperatures (SST) in the Bay of Bengal have been posing a threat to the existence of certain fish and other marine species. The variations in SST have been due t ...More

Seagrass, which acts as nursery for many marine organisms and is feed for endangered dugongs, has been successfully rehabilitated along Tuticorin coast. Seagrass was rehabilitated on the seabed withi ...More

Arnold Schwarzenegger is calling for more effort to fight climate change and stated that it's the issue of the time. Former California governor talked to a small group at the Munich security conferen ...More

Arnold Schwarzenegger is calling for more effort to fight climate change and stated that it's the issue of the time. Former California governor talked to a small group at the Munich security conferen ...More

As Delhi gears up to usher in a new government, eminent environmentalist R.K. Pachauri is hopeful it would give the sector "high priority" and reflect Prime Minister NarendraModi's leadership in effec ...More

Hyderabad: To check on vehicular emission and upgrade public transport system, the T.S.R. Subramanian Committee, formed by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change to review key environ ...More

Seagrass, which acts as nursery for many marine organisms and is feed for endangered dugongs, has been successfully rehabilitated along Tuticorin coast. Seagrass was rehabilitated on the seabed withi ...More

New Delhi: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit, France made a pitch for resolving financial issues to achieve a meaningful climate change pact at the United Nations (UN) climate conference i ...More

Stakeholders at the public consultative meeting urged authorities to effectively introduce solid waste management system, to check effluents from entering water bodies and to reduce burning of fossil ...More