PERU: Amid rising emissions and 2014 threatening to be the hottest year in history, India and representatives from over 190 nations began talks at the UN climate summit on a new ambitious and binding ...More

The government has identified 46 million hectare of agricultural land spread across 122 districts that is likely to be adversely impacted by extreme weather events and cause decline in farm output, ag ...More

KOLKATA: Mrinmoyee Naskar has taught dozens of women living in East Kolkata Wetlands how to churn out office stationary and paper mache gift items from waste paper. On Saturday, she will travel more t ...More

Washington: In the more than two decades since world leaders first got together to try to solve global warming, life on Earth has changed, not just the climate. It's gotten hotter, more polluted with ...More

Climate change played a pivotal role in the extinction of mastodons in North America, new radiocarbon dating of fossils has revealed — though hunting by people may have been the last straw. Mastodons ...More

The Centre has granted permission for diversion of over 12 lakh hectares of forest area since 1980 to be used for other than forestry related activities, Lok Sabha was informed today. "Since Octob ...More

NEW DELHI: The Centre has granted permission for diversion of over 12 lakh hectares of forest area since 1980 to be used for other than forestry related activities, Lok Sabha was informed today. " ...More

NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet has given its approval for the negotiating position for the 20th Conference of Parties (COP-20) on climate change being held at Lima in Peru from December 1 to 12. The C ...More

LIMA: Amid hope to seal the climate deal in Paris next year, crucial negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) kicked off in the Peruvian capital on Monday ...More

Turkey today assumed the presidency of the G20 group of major economies for the first time in its history, pledging to fight global inequality during its turn at the helm. The presidency of the G20 ...More

The annual UN global climate change talks started in the Peruvian capital Monday amid hopes for hammering out a new international climate deal ahead of key talks in Paris in 2015. Thousands of repres ...More

WASHINGTON: To investigate the composition of clouds and tiny airborne particles like dust, smoke and other atmospheric aerosols, NASA scientists have developed an instrument called the Cloud-Aerosol ...More

NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal today sought response from the Centre on a plea against ill effects of climate change and steps taken by the Centre and states to implement the National Action P ...More

ew Delhi/London: US President Barack Obama’s breakthrough deal with China to rein in fossil fuel emissions puts the spotlight squarely on India and other major economies as the world’s governments gat ...More

ew Delhi/London: US President Barack Obama’s breakthrough deal with China to rein in fossil fuel emissions puts the spotlight squarely on India and other major economies as the world’s governments gat ...More

In what could push the country into the same league as the US and China, India is likely to announce new, bigger and more effective climate change targets by the time US President Barack Obama comes h ...More

In a setback to developing countries in general, and India and China in particular, at the climate change talks, the Philippines has moved out of the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDC) group. The ...More

The National Green Tribunal on Monday sought response from the Centre, States and Union Territories about the measures they have been adopting to check climate change and how the governments have impl ...More

Prime Minister Tony Abbott today opened the door to the use of nuclear energy as Australia faces growing pressure to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Australia is the world's third-ranking uran ...More

New Delhi: India is working on a plan to form an association of countries with high solar power potential, aimed at lowering the cost of solar energy and improving the country’s standing at the glob ...More