BHUBANESWAR: Concerned over the depleting ozone layer because of the emission of aviation fuel, civil aviation experts and environmentalists here will discuss measures to be taken to check pollution o ...More

Environment Ministry has approved maximum number of 55 projects in BJP-ruled Gujarat followed by and Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra since the NDA government came to power at the Centre. Environmen ...More

NEW DELHI: Political leadership including from India, the COP presidency and the UNFCCC might have praised the Lima climate talks' outcome, but the NGOs across the globe have differed and said the res ...More

Last week’s climate conference in Lima ended with countries agreeing to a framework for setting national pledges to be submitted next year. Although viewed by some as a compromise, the Lima agreement ...More

The 20th session of the Conference of the Parties or the COP-20 and the 10th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol has taken place from D ...More

VISAKHAPATNAM: There has been an annual increase in hydro meteorological disasters by 7.4 per cent due to climate change. Climate change is also resulting in reduced number of rainy days during rainy ...More

A "green" bond market has taken root this year, with municipalities and corporations issuing new environmentally-focused bonds and money managers jumping in to buy them. But it's too soon to tell ...More

Uniform Protocol on Water Quality Monitoring (UPWQM, order 2005) notified by Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change specifies periodic monitoring of surface water and ground water. The wat ...More

In a seven-page open letter, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to head the high-level committee for development of Mumbai propo ...More

NASHIK: The Science Express-Biodiversity Special - an exhibition on board a train - will be coming to the city on Sunday. It is an initiative by the department of science and technology and ministry o ...More

"It is true that that there is difficulty for one French Company that was dedicated to invest in West Bengal," Francois Richier said. Perception that investors are having about West Bengal "is not th ...More

New evidence suggests genetically-modified crops are productive and inherently pest-resistant. Is India listening? I was very enthused to read a recently published research paper that published a me ...More

A new report named 'Turn Down the Heat' released by the World Bank explores the impact of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and Eastern Europe and Ce ...More

Washington: While campaigning in 2008, Barack Obama said it was time to come up with a new US policy towards Cuba. Now, with two years left in his second term in the White House, he has finally acted. ...More

Developing countries have every right to demand adequate financial resources from developed nations to help them cope with the additional challenges of dealing with climate change — the observed imp ...More

PANAJI: Coral reefs which are home to over 25 per cent of marine life, are facing a double blow across the globe in the form of thermal and chemical impact, a senior scientist said. "Thermal impac ...More

For "shall", substitute "may". For example, change "countries signing this climate change treaty SHALL state how much they are going to cut their greenhouse emissions" to "countries signing this clima ...More

Yet another depressing charade played out at Lima, Peru, where the 20th conference of the parties (COP) to the United Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) concluded on December 14, with a 4 ...More

Hyderabad: Climate change will gradually force larger plant species, endemic to biodiversity hotspots in the country, to “shift” to other conducive environments, said researchers from University of Hy ...More

LONDON: Scientists have identified the most energy-efficient way to make clouds more reflective to the Sun in a bid to combat climate change. Marine Cloud Brightening is a reversible geoengineerin ...More