Climate change training Biodiversity and Climate Change Division, Directorate of Research, India Council of Forestry Research and Education, Dehradun, is organising a training programme on Climate C ...More

For summit watchers who feverishly analyse photo ops and body-language cues for clues about world leaders, this season of global summitry is something of a gift. At the Apec meeting in Beijing, Japane ...More

Bengaluru: Mirroring a summit where heads of states confabulate, high-profile scientists from Commonwealth countries will meet in Bengaluru for a three day conference, beginning November 25 to address ...More

BEIJING: China aims to cap its annual coal use at 4.2 billion tonnes by 2020, it said Wednesday, a one-sixth increase on current consumption, already by far the world's largest. The announcement b ...More

From December 1 to 12, environmentalists, journalists and representatives of countries from all over the world will meet in Lima, Peru, to negotiate what they can or are willing to do to prevent the u ...More

The United States and India are working actively to implement President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mutual commitment to strengthen and deepen cooperation in every sector for the b ...More

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama might be open to using the Keystone pipeline as leverage with Republicans if they cooperate on other aspects of his long-stalled domestic agenda, such as investing i ...More

TRICHY: For the past two weeks, a large number of people were down with viral fever in the city. Doctors attributed the spread of airborne viruses to the increase in number of fever cases. Accordi ...More

World Heritage Sites such as the Western Ghats, Manas Wildlife Sanctuary, Kaziranga National Park and Sundarbans are facing significant conservation concerns, according to an International Union for C ...More

UNITED NATIONS: In a strong message to the developed nations, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan has said that sustainable development and a victory in the war against climate change cannot be attain ...More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday observed that climate change posed as a common challenge before Fiji and India and pledged to tackle this issue by working together with the island nation in ...More

India did not clearly spell out its position on the issue of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) during a key UN conference here as nations debated whether to set up a contact group for discussing the proposed ...More

SYDNEY: A once-in-a-decade global forum on parks closed in Sydney on Wednesday calling for an urgent increase in ocean protection and stressing the economic benefits of natural sanctuaries. The Wo ...More

Prime Minister Bainimarama, Distinguished members of the media I feel really privileged to have the opportunity to visit Fiji.I am delighted that this moment has come so early in my tenure.It is al ...More

The environment ministry is proposing to make changes to the law so that development projects can be pushed through quickly. But will forest dwellers be short-changed in the process? Sonia Sarkar find ...More

WASHINGTON: China must make significant investments now to meet the targets of last week's agreement with the United States on greenhouse gas emissions, a senior US official said today, predicting a b ...More

Should India move away from China on its climate change stance? Should it sit more with the West now that the US and China have announced their mutually-agreed emission reduction targets for future? T ...More

Nagpur: Wildlife crime, especially illegal trade of animal parts, has become highly organized with transborder ramifications. To tackle this, the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), a multidisciplin ...More

NAGPUR: The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court has issued notices on a PIL to ministry of environment, forests & climate change, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) and others against illegal du ...More

GUWAHATI: Union science and technology minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday asked the Assam forest department to submit a scientific proposal to stop poaching of one-horned rhinos and protect the species ...More