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

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

CHENNAI: As it readies for the UN climate change conference at Lima, the Centre is tapping the expertise of Indian scientific institutions, the latest being the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation in C ...More

The Indian team that will participate in the upcoming conference in Lima in December will engage all countries on the agenda that the world must come together and take on the challenge of climate chan ...More

LONDON: Education makes people less vulnerable to natural disasters such as floods, landslides and storms that are expected to intensify with climate change, says a new study. Investing in empower ...More

CHENNAI: Now that the Narendra Modi government’s ambitious Ganga clean up project — Namaami Gange — is underway, the focus may well shift southward very soon, according to Prakash Javadekar, Minister ...More

ITANAGAR, Nov 27 – Arunachal Pradesh Governor Lt Gen Nirbhay Sharma (Retd) has called upon scientists to find the “best scientific ways and means” to address the challenges posed by climate change and ...More

The Union government has finally agreed to set up an environment regulator that will have powers to appraise industrial projects. But it will not have powers to penalise violators of green laws. Th ...More

New Delhi: The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is working on a strategy to turn some 20,000 unemployed graduates into entrepreneurs to help it meet its ambitious solar power generation ...More

With a mission to enhance the role of students and women in protecting the flora and fauna of the coastal region that has been hit hard by cyclone Hudhud, Green Climate team has mooted a slew of eco-m ...More

Bengaluru: Warning that floods like the ones which ravaged Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Odisha are imminent between now and 2090, a report of The Royal Society, London, has suggested effective and afforda ...More

PARIS: A snapshot of what scientists are saying about climate change ahead of the next round of UN talks opening in Lima on Monday. Atmospheric levels of three greenhouse gases from burning coal, ...More

Nagpur: Very few NGOs can boast of the zeal and commitment that members of Green Vigil Foundation exude. Under the leadership of Kaustav Chatterjee and his wife Kavita Rattan, the NGO has been taking ...More

One major impediment to India’s ambition of achieving high growth, at least in the past decade, was the set of environment laws that stalled many large industrial projects and investments. The quest ...More

Climate change threatens the survival of the UK's honeybee population, a new research has warned. Researchers at the Queen's University Belfast have found that the spread of an exotic parasite tha ...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

The Government has conducted a scientific study on climate change caused by global warming and its impact on monsoon. Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Govt of India had undertaken the I ...More

In these times of global warming, it is a well-known fact that the sea levels of the Earth’s oceans are rising due to melting icebergs and glaciers and thermal expansion due to ocean warming caused by ...More

GUWAHATI, Nov 25 – A high-level committee constituted by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and headed by the former Cabinet Secretary of India, TSR Subramanium wit ...More

Sustainable tourism is not just essential for survival, it is also an effective driver of growth Worldwide, ‘natural capital’ has emerged as an important topic of action and debate. The latest Inte ...More