MUMBAI: Animal rights activists in the city are up in arms over a recent statement made by Union minister of state for environment, forest and climate change, Prakash Javadekar, about reinstating bull ...More

After two weeks of jawboning, the Lima climate change meet seems to have achieved precious little. Both the developing and the developed world camps have claimed victories, an indication of how wishy- ...More

The ‘Twentieth Conference of the Parties’ of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ended in Lima on December 14, as the negotiations extended by two days beyond schedule. The Paris ...More

The Lima climate talks finally produced an agreement, but only just. After protracted negotiations that continued into the morning of Sunday, almost 36 hours after its scheduled close on Friday, the ...More

The saving grace in the climate change talks at Lima has been that they were not a total disaster as they were threatening to be. The talks had started on a note of despondency. The atmosphere on Dece ...More

WASHINGTON: People who own all-electric cars where coal generates the power may think they are helping the environment. But a new US study finds their vehicles actually make the air dirtier, worsening ...More

Finally, the world may be heading towards a climate change limitation deal. But any deal, scheduled for a summit at Paris in December next year, will still be weak. One reason is the still tepid respo ...More

NEW DELHI: India's spending on green IT and sustainability initiatives is expected to reach $34 billion in 2014, growing 14.1 per cent over last year, research firm Gartner said today. The spendin ...More

After 13 days of intense drama, unexpected confrontations and backroom negotiations, 196 countries on Sunday adopted an agreement called the Lima Call to Climate Action, ensuring the conference was no ...More

The climate talks at Lima were on the brink of collapse on Saturday after two attempts to push through watered-down proposals were rejected by developing countries, forcing the head of negotiations to ...More

CHENNAI: The age-old standards for milk observed in the country are likely to undergo a drastic change, with the Centre planning to evolve new norms. A K Srivastava, vice-chancellor and director, Nat ...More

The Minister of State for Steel and Mines, Shri Vishnu Deo Sai has said that there are 13 cases of iron and manganese mining projects which are awaiting environmental clearances as per Ministry of Env ...More

New insights into the origins of agriculture could help shape the future of food; scientists hope for new important crops Agricultural decisions made by our ancestors more than 10,000 years ago cou ...More

The United Nations General Assembly last week declared June 21 as the annual ‘International Day of Yoga’, following an appeal by Prime Minister Narendra Modi three months ago. This small but interesti ...More

Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation is implementing a scheme viz. Development of Water Resources Information System (DWRIS) with the main objective of collecting the ...More

Shortly before 2am on Sunday, after more than 36 straight hours of negotiations, top officials from nearly 200 nations agreed to the first deal committing every country in the world to reducing the fo ...More

CHENNAI: China and US are the biggest polluters in the world, with India ranking third, according to the 2015 Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) report. The CCPI, put out by German Watch and th ...More

A carbon-curbing deal struck in Lima on Sunday was a watered-down compromise where national intransigence threatened the goal of a pact to save Earth’s climate system, green groups said. The hard-fou ...More

A carbon-curbing deal struck in Lima on Sunday was a watered-down compromise where national intransigence threatened the goal of a pact to save Earth’s climate system, green groups said. The hard-fou ...More

I was just about to go with a column that started like this: When they write the history of the global response to climate change, 2014 could well be seen as the moment when the balance between acti ...More