India has had a long and notable history in hydel power. Its first hydroelectric power plant was commissioned in Karnataka way back in 1902. It has produced a number of distinguished hydro engineers ...More

The Lima meeting, coming soon after the U.S.-China climate deal, seeks to set the tone for the "Paris Protocol" and countries will be wrangling over their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions. ...More

LIMA: India is looking to make a splash at the United Nations-backed climate negotiations in Lima that begin on Monday with its plans to ramp up solar power capacity five-fold to 100 GW by 2030. While ...More

India’s populous coastal cities Mumbai and Kolkata are most vulnerable to loss of life and properties due to coastal flooding in the second half of the century, the government has said quoting a UN re ...More

LIMA: Representatives from more than 190 countries have been making their way to Lima for the annual UN-sponsored climate change talks (COP20) over the weekend. The meet in Lima takes on added importa ...More

KANCI KULON: The sprawling power station that hums and coughs along this coast in Indonesia is labeled as a Japanese contribution to the global fight against climate change. But the Cirebon plant, ...More

Climate change is back on the international agenda. The announcement of a greenhouse gas emissions agreement between the United States and China had been preceded by a European Union commitment to fur ...More

Pigs on flights? "Well, if wishes were horses...!" some would retort. After all, these porcine and equine fancies have been the mainstay of adynatons — phrases using hyperbole so farfetched that they ...More

Can the city learn from the German Energy Transition project to evolve a unique sustainability programme for itself, asks Durganand Balsavar With the growing interest in sustainable cities, it would ...More

There is only one real rule to converse with a baby: talking is better than not talking. But that one rule can make a lifetime of difference. That's the message that the US state of Georgia hopes to s ...More

WASHINGTON: The world could witness the hottest year this year with the first 10 months of 2014 being the warmest since record keeping began more than 130 years ago, a top US scientific agency has war ...More

BENGALURU: The Commonwealth Science Conference concluded here on Friday, after four days of discussions among some of the world’s brightest minds. Over the course of the conference, there were session ...More

Instead of setting higher targets for cuts in greenhouse gas emission compared to its previous commitments, the US has reduced the target for 2025 by two-four per cent, under a joint declaration with ...More

Scientists estimate that by 2050, the ocean could be largely devoid of reefs as climate change and our relentless plundering of the sea set in motion geological changes not seen for millions of years. ...More

Animals are dying off in the wild at a pace as great as the extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago because of human activity and climate change. Current extinction rate ...More

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who rose to power in large part by opposing a tax on greenhouse gas emissions, is finding his country isolated like never before on climate change as the US, Chi ...More

A 17-member government delegation, led by environment minister Prakash Javadekar, is set to negotiate at the coming United Nations (UN) climate change talks at Lima, Peru. Even as the government draws ...More

NEW DELHI: In its recent report, TSR Subramanian Committee—formed by the ministry of environment, forests and climate change to review key environmental laws — has recommended a "revised system of tax ...More

The West Bengal government plans to incorporate area-specific approaches to identify, assess and reduce risks of disasters as part of its disaster management strategy, an official said here Saturday. ...More

Study findings on the "big scale" migration triggered by climate change in Indian and African deltas can be applied to form adaptation strategies for other "vulnerable, productive" regions of the worl ...More