LONDON: New climate models have predicted a 50% increase in lightning strikes across the world during this century as a result of warming temperatures associated with climate change. University of ...More

India, the third ranked carbon emitter, faces growing pressure to devise a clear strategy to address climate change and step out of China's shadow during pivotal global climate talks after this week's ...More

LONDON: Bengal's Sundarban National Park has now been declared as "facing significant threat" due to a failed conservation system. Some of India's iconic natural wonders — Manas Wildlife Sanctuary ...More

CWC chairman says climate change impacts agrarian economies more than others. Secretary-General of the International Commission on Irrigation & Drainage C. Avinash Tyagi said the only way out for the ...More

Environmental activist Chandi Prasad Bhatt visits Hudhud-affected areas. BCT secretary B. Sri Ram Murthy said instead of giving importance to numbers, the trees that withstand the gale like neem, jamu ...More

TIRUNELVELI: A study on impact of climate change on farmers has been initiated in Manimutharu irrigation area of Tirunelveli district. The study will focus on how farmers are coping with irregular mon ...More

TIRUNELVELI: Researchers from Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) and Azim Premji University (APU) have initiated an 18-month study on climate change adaptation among farm ...More

CHANDIGARH: Baroness Sandip Verma, parliamentary under secretary, department of energy and climate change, United Kingdom, on Thursday said that developing indigenous solar panels in Punjab in collabo ...More

The world’s top carbon emitters, the US and China, on Wednesday reached a groundbreaking deal on climate change, which calls for ambitious action to limit greenhouse gases. The pact may lead to India ...More

Wooing the 10-member ASEAN bloc to increase its economic engagement with India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday said his government has embarked on a "new economic journey" and places equal emp ...More

NEW DELHI: The US-China joint pledge to take actions to limit their carbon emissions may put pressure on India to commit something substantial by March next year when all countries are expected to com ...More

LONDON: Groundwater has not escaped climate change, according to a new study that found groundwater's temperature profiles echo those of the atmosphere. Researchers used long-term temperature meas ...More

WASHINGTON: The United States and China unveiled on Wednesday a secretly negotiated deal to curb their greenhouse gas emissions, in effect turning the heat on India to also make firm commitments to cu ...More

The US and China announced a historic and sub-par bilateral pact on climate change ahead of the UN negotiations that will lead to a new global agreement in 2015 in Paris. The US announced it would re ...More

NEW DELHI: India will use the G-20 forum to demand the early capitalisation of the Green Climate Fund. The fund set up to help developing countries tackle climate change needs $10 billion to begin wor ...More

WASHINGTON: Don't expect the landmark U.S.-China climate change agreement to nudge the world's rising thermostat downward much on its own, scientists say. While they hail it as a start, expert ...More

New Delhi, November 12: The deal struck by the US and China on Wednesday at the end of the APEC Trade Summit held in Beijing has faced criticism from Sunita Narain, Director General of the Centre ...More

The United States and China unveiled ambitious targets on Wednesday to reduce greenhouse gases, aiming to inject fresh momentum into the global fight against climate change ahead of a make-or-break tr ...More

BEIJING: When Xi Jinping took the reins of a booming China two years ago, President Barack Obama saw an opportunity to remake America's relationship with the Asian power. But even after Obama's unusua ...More

HYDERABAD: Post cyclone Hudhud, the pitch of protest against the proposed Kovvada Nuclear Power Plant project, barely 68 km away from Visakhapatnam, has increased manifold. In fact, environmentalists ...More