The agreement between the world’s top two polluters is cosmetic. India need not follow suit The recently concluded understanding between the US and China in Beijing to limit their emissions of green ...More

The agreement between the world’s top two polluters is cosmetic. India need not follow suit The recently concluded understanding between the US and China in Beijing to limit their emissions of green ...More

GENEVA: Fiscal incentives for carbon capture should be part of the global climate change agreement that replaces the Kyoto Protocol, 56 countries belonging to the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UN ...More

TWIN BRIDGES: At ski areas up and down the jagged peaks of the Sierra Nevada, where California's drought has hit historic proportions and the broader threat of climate change hangs heavy over an indus ...More

To protect biodiversity, India must take hard decisions and set thresholds for environmental regulation and pollution The Prime Minister recently reorganised his National Council on Climate Change an ...More

HYDERABAD: American weather expert Elzibeth C Weatherhead, who was here in the city on Monday believes that global weather forecasting has been getting better with effective communication and informat ...More

IMPHAL, Nov 23 – The major challenges faced by the journalists’ community in writing news stories relating to the issues of climate change in the Indian Himalayas was the main highlight of the three-d ...More

GUWAHATI, Nov 23 – In keeping with the theme Earth Day 2015, WildRoots with support of Earth Day Network, Washington DC has launched the Green Cities Campaign in the capital city. The Green Cities Ca ...More

The US and China signing an agreement on climate change excludes India from the G-2 consensus on this critical issue. A decade ago, India and China, both members of the G-20, were invited to be perman ...More

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said here on Monday that Indian philosophy, lifestyle and cultural practices are based on the science of protecting nature and hold key to solving environmental ...More

KATHMANDU: Foreign Secretaries from the SAARC countries today met here in the Nepalese capital to discuss cooperation on a range of issues like combating terrorism, poverty alleviation, energy securit ...More

The global climate is not nearly as volatile as the politics around it. After several years in the deep freeze—a time coinciding with the global economic downturn, when advanced economy politicians we ...More

Coal is India’s main energy source but we have to be very careful. After the historic Sino-US accord on climate change signed in Beijing between US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinp ...More

Nearly 100,000 premature deaths take place annually due to air pollution in India and some other countries which can be avoided by 2030 by improving energy efficiency measures in transport and industr ...More

Two major developments this month have brought the issue of human-induced climate change to the attention of the global community. The first was the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate C ...More

A high-level committee set up to review environmental, forest and wildlife laws of the country was constituted without the mandatory approval of the Prime Minister, according to replies by the envir ...More

Seven Harvard University students have filed a lawsuit asking a judge to force the university's governing body to divest from fossil fuel companies. The lawsuit filed yesterday alleges investmen ...More

NEW DELHI: An RTI enquiry has found that a high-level committee, formed by the ministry of earth sciences and climate change to review environmental laws, was not constituted according to requisite ...More

Review of Maritime Transport says that most are not adequately connected to relevant shipping networks Small island developing states (SIDS) face severe and complex transport challenges, UNCTAD's R ...More

The G20 leaders gave their assent to the proposal put forth by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to limit the use of tax havens, as cleared by OECD Finance Ministers earlier ...More