We might be in the midst of the planet’s sixth great extinction, but Diane Ackerman offers us some hope yet in The Human Age It takes a certain amount of loin-girding to buy a book on climate chan ...More

The world must cut CO2 emissions to zero by 2070 at the latest to keep global warming below dangerous levels and prevent a global catastrophe, the U.N. warns. By 2100, all greenhouse gas emissions ...More

Overfishing along India’s coastline has brought down the shark population by a whopping 43 per cent in the last decade, threatening to wipe out 17 species from these seas. Experts at the ‘Third Mis ...More

Despite India changing its stance and keeping quiet, select developing countries were able to delay the launch of formal talks on the phasing out of climate change-causing refrigerant gases under the ...More

PM Modi of Pollie-wood has been such a success on his trip to Australia that an increasing number of Australians on the streets have been asking whether the Prime Ministership in Canberra cannot be ...More

Thirty nations meeting in Berlin Thursday pledged $9.3 billion (7.4bn euros) for a fund to help developing countries cut emissions and prepare for global warming, just shy of a $10 billion target. Th ...More

NEW DELHI: Setting stringent targets for emission cuts for the world, a UN body wants countries across the globe to collectively cut carbon emission to zero (achieve carbon neutrality) by 2070 and bri ...More

The world must cut CO2 emissions to zero by 2070 at the latest to keep global warming below dangerous levels and prevent a global catastrophe, the U.N. warns. By 2100, all greenhouse gas emissions — ...More

The US—not President Barack Obama, let’s not make that mistake—has struck two key agreements with two key emerging nations that will benefit the US, those emerging nations, their teeming populatio ...More

After recasting the superhero genre with a dark realism in the Dark Knight Batman trilogy and dissecting dream manipulation in Inception, director Christopher Nolan is tackling the final frontier. In ...More

WASHINGTON: Tensions between the US and China have deepened during the rule of China's president, Xi Jinping, and the risk of an inadvertent military clash in the Asia-Pacific is growing, a congressio ...More

With the shark population in the seas around the country showing signs of an “alarming” decline, conservation should focus on creating sanctuaries for the endangered marine animal, said speakers at th ...More

TEZPUR, Nov 20 – President Pranab Mukherjee today said that education has shaped the destiny of nations in no small measure, as nations consigned to poverty, social disorder and economic malaise have ...More

PUNE: The Union ministry of environment, forests and climate change has directed the principal secretary of the state urban development department to issue appropriate directions to the Pimpri Chinc ...More

LONDON: Scientists have for the first time confirmed that ash clouds can travel across the Atlantic Ocean. They also warned that an ash cloud crisis even worse than the Icelandic eruption could b ...More

The world still isn't close to preventing what leaders call a dangerous level of man-made warming, a new United Nations report says. That's despite some nations' recent pledges to cut back on carbon d ...More

NEW YORK: Stressing on the need for an equitable development agenda, India has said that the burden of sustainability cannot be placed on the poor and livelihood concerns of the underprivileged not be ...More

LUDHIANA: Deliberations on integrated farming system, climate change, and agronomy education were held on the second day of the national symposium on "Agricultural Diversification for Sustainable Live ...More

MUMBAI: The Tata group's renewable energy arm is in talks to invest in a wind energy firm, revving up deal activity in a sector that has lured General Electric, Goldman Sachs and the Asian Development ...More

LONDON: Obesity is costing the world more than almost as much as smoking or terrorism and war. The epidemic — one-third of the world's population is overweight or obese in 2013, is costing Britain ...More