Understanding the climate change landscape – the causes, actors and solutions Hollywood loves climate change. Blockbusters like Avatar or Elysium portray humanity deserting Earth and looking to the s ...More

US President Barack Obama generated some excitement at the climate change conference in Paris yesterday, with his remarks that at least a part of the agreement that is being negotiated could be legall ...More

CHENNAI: The stink was unusual at the Broken Bridge in Urur Kuppam on Wednesday. A closer look at the estuary revealed the horror of it: Thousands of 'maduva' or mullet fish had washed ashore, for kil ...More

India has a serious problem of energy security and pollution at the local level. And all of that can be met by moving toward renewable energy in a big way India has to be ready for higher environment ...More

CHENNAI: The stink was unusual at the Broken Bridge in Urur Kuppam on Wednesday. A closer look at the estuary revealed the horror of it: Thousands of 'maduva' or mullet fish had washed ashore, for kil ...More

As 2014 ended, the values enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights remained under threat. Around the world, personal liberty, human rights, and de ...More

BENGALURU: This year's competition to be named PETA India's Hottest Vegetarian Celebrities was tougher than ever - but no one was more deserving of the title than Prime Minister Narendra Modi and lege ...More

So it’s all working according to the plan. The latest round of National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) report on the “Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households” for 2012-13 clearly sho ...More

With US President Barack Obama as the Republic Day guest, Indian foreign policy is bound to attract more than usual interest in 2015. Obama comes at a time when the relationship, as India’s envoy to ...More

WASHINGTON: Indo-US relations were back on track in 2014 after overcoming major hiccups and bilateral ties are set for a big boost with President Barack Obama slated to make a historic second visit to ...More

HONOLULU: Warning from President Barack Obama to Republicans in the U.S. Congress: I have a veto pen and, come January, I won't be afraid to use it. Since taking office in 2009, Obama has only vet ...More

The final moments of a dying year are always rife with prediction, and especially this year, when some interesting moments in the global economy, in both recovery and collapse, have occurred towards t ...More

NAGPUR: The city experienced its coldest day ever on Monday as the minimum temperature dipped to 5 degrees on the Celsius scale. The all-time low temperature of the city before this was 5.5°C experien ...More

Urbanisation in Mumbai has led to the rise in ‘extreme rainfall’ instances in the city, finds a study by IIT-B professors. Comparing the weather pattern in urban Mumbai and relatively non-urban Aliba ...More

NEW DELHI: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the leading UN body for the assessment of climate change, will continue its work, no matter whether countries arrive at a global climat ...More

As the environment versus development debate continued to torment policy makers in 2014, the new government initiated the process of rewriting the rules of environmental governance in a bid to bring m ...More

GUWAHATI, Dec 29 – In a significant development that may have far-reaching impacts in tackling fuel scarcity and global warming, the Gauhati University (GU) Biotechnology Department has discovered the ...More

NEW DELHI: The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) would launch a dedicated forest satellite to keep an eye on the country’s forest cover on a daily basis. The ministry is in talks with ...More

The end of 2014 is actually the beginning of a process to decide the most important factor to save the earth from the perils of human-induced climate change. The upcoming year will witness finalisa ...More

WASHINGTON: Some species can quickly shape-shift to cope with climate change without having to migrate or evolve, a new study suggests. Researchers have found that a Rocky Mountain mustard plant a ...More