Under the Global and Regional Climate Change (GRCC) programme of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Earth System Science organization (ESSO) has established a dedicated Centre for Climate Change Research ...More

The latest round of the global negotiations on climate change ended last Sunday in the usual fashion, with the host country, Peru, brokering a decision by exhaustion nearly two days after the schedule ...More

The government has told the Supreme Court that hydropower projects in Uttarakhand affected the environment adversely, and contributed to the June 2013 disaster — provoking the court to ask why it had ...More

All 196 countries at the Lima meeting have agreed to work out an open-ended agreement on containing greenhouse gas emissions in Paris in 2015 • The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate C ...More

Indian Forest Service (IFS) Officers of the coastal States discussed innovative strategies to tackle the impact of climate change on coastal and marine areas at a workshop here on Wednesday. Indira ...More

High growth is not only not a must to improve our level of well-being, it is doubtful if it can be pursued for too long. High growth is good for those who sell motor cars and home appliances, but it c ...More

Agra: Etawah DM Nitin Bansal, taking serious note of a recently-held mock environment parliament in schools across the district, has issued an eight-point circular to all government departments to imp ...More

The United Nations-sponsored climate summit in Lima turned out to be yet another underexploited opportunity to evolve a blueprint for a strong global agreement on climate protection in Paris next year ...More

There is absolutely no ground for India to agree to cut its emissions at the 2015 climate change summit. Instead, it has a strong case to press the three biggest emitters to do more as there is still ...More

LIMA (PERU)| NEW DELHI: India and the United States are expected to announce a joint effort to tackle climate change with focus on clean energy and technology R&D during President Barack Obama's visit ...More

LIMA (PERU)| NEW DELHI: India and the United States are expected to announce a joint effort to tackle climate change with focus on clean energy and technology R&D during President Barack Obama's visit ...More

The recently-concluded climate change talks in Lima failed to catalyze any optimism for the next round at Paris 2015, signalling little hope for India that is already reeling under extreme weather pat ...More

Summary William D Dar, director general of International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat) which has its global headquarters in Hyderabad, has transformed the organisation ...More

PUNE: Cities like Pune and Mumbai, where substantial number of people live in unhealthy conditions, could get central assistance to provide housing for poor as part of the Central government's push fo ...More

Governments look only reluctantly into the future, and the five-year planning framework - short as it is when it comes to planning for the needs of even a generation - is followed only reluctantly. Po ...More

VISAKHAPATNAM: The civil engineering department of GITAM University is organising a two-day international conference on ‘Professional Engineers: Challenges in Disaster Management’ (ICPECDM-14) on Dece ...More

PUNE: The Science Express-Biodiversity Special - an exhibition on board a train - will be coming to the city on Wednesday. The train will be at the Khadki railway station for four days until December ...More

GANDHINAGAR: The delegation of industrialists and businessmen from the United States to the seventh edition of Gujarat Government's biennial flagship event- Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors' Summit- w ...More

Policymakers and scientists from SAARC countries have begun deliberations on climate change, which is adversely affecting Ocean and marine life in the region. The five-day-long workshop, which began ...More

Though the Union Environment Ministry acknowledges its damage, Uttarakhand’s hydroelectric project-driven development agenda remains unchanged Chaaen, a village atop a hill in the picturesque Alaknan ...More