What's happening at Lima? Officials, experts and activists from over 190 countries have gathered at Lima for a conference to discuss -and hopefully finalize - an agreement on cutting greenhouse gas ...More

India on Thursday said developed countries should compensate developing nations for the effects their greenhouse gas emissions have had on the climate as representatives of 195 countries met in Peru t ...More

Telling rich nations that they cannot be absolved of their past “sins”, India on Thursday demanded that they should compensate developing nations for the effects their greenhouse gas emissions have ha ...More

The UN's definition of 'climate finance' came under scrutiny today after it emerged that about $1 billion in Japanese funding meant for combating global warming was used to build three coal-fired powe ...More

After three days of stalemate and ever-rising bitterness, the climate change talks looked set for a breakthrough on Thursday morning at Lima, Peru. United Nations (UN) officials leading the talks for ...More

Telling rich nations that they cannot be absolved of their past “sins,” India on Thursday said developed countries should compensate developing nations for the effects their greenhouse gas emissions h ...More

The roadmap to Paris is fraught with contentious debates over the focus of contributions from countries and whether it was enough to take only mitigation seriously as developed nations are doing at th ...More

MANILA: A super typhoon gained strength on Thursday as it tracked towards the Philippines, threatening more devastation for mostly poor communities where thousands of people have died in an annual tir ...More

The buzz around the recent US-China bilateral climate agreement had brought India into sharp focus during ongoing negotiations in Lima, Peru. New Delhi stuck to its guns during the talks in the past t ...More

PERU: Telling rich nations that they cannot be absolved of their past "sins", India today demanded that they should compensate developing nations for the effects their greenhouse gas emissions have ha ...More

New Delhi: There is no scientific evidence to prove that genetically modified (GM) crops are harmful to soil, human health and environment, Prakash Javadekar, minister of environment, forests and clim ...More

Sanctuary Asia, supported by DSP Blackrock and Deutsche Bank, presented the Sanctuary Wildlife Awards to five dedicated environmentalists at the National Centre for Performing Arts in Mumbai on Thursd ...More

KOCHI: Prymnesium Parvum, micro-algae seen in the waters of Kochi, has a huge potential to be used for producing bio-diesel. This was revealed by researcher Sanyo Sabu, who is working at the Cochin ...More

KOCHI: Governor P Sathasivam has urged to use the conciliation and mediation route to settle litigations in the plantation sector, so as to save money and time. “Being a state of high literacy and ab ...More

LIMA (PERU): The UN's definition of 'climate finance' came under the scrutiny of developing countries and civil society here today after it emerged that about $1 billion in Japanese funding meant for ...More

Largely due to record high sea surface temperatures, says World Meteorological Organisation report The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) says 2014 is on track to be one of the hottest, if not t ...More

The government is planning to announce tougher carbon emission targets but Indian power companies are already ramping up focus on installing high-efficiency supercritical machines apart from boosting ...More

KOLKATA: At the East Kolkata Wetlands, Mrinmoyee Naskar has taught dozens of women how to churn out office stationery and 'papier mache' gift items from discarded papers. On Saturday, she will travel ...More

Indus Valley Civilization (also known as Harrapan civilization) flourished from approximately 3300 BC to 1300 BC (for almost two thousand years) in a large area from north-west India extending up-to ...More

For more than 20 years, international climate talks have been dominated by a schism between those who created the problem of climate change (largely the United States and nations of the European Union ...More