LONDON: UK's energy and climate change minister Sandip Verma would begin a three-day business delegation to India from tomorrow to further strengthen bilateral relations in energy and education sector ...More

NEW DELHI: Leading stock exchange BSE is in discussion with asset managers to launch an exchange-traded fund (ETF) based on its climate change index. The new index will help investors to focus on ...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

Will press for funding, tech transfer pledges at Peru meet New Delhi, November 10: India will remain firm on its demand for greater commitments by developed countries at the UN conference on Clim ...More

BENGALURU: “It has been a brilliant experience today. Though I have been to several science exhibitions in the past, this stands out as it is in a train. Since exhibits related to biodiversity from ac ...More

Leading stock exchange BSE is in discussion with asset managers to launch an exchange-traded fund (ETF) based on its climate change index. The new index will help investors to focus on companies' ...More

NEW DELHI: Climate change is spurring something positive for India: growing overseas demand for indigenous cattle, which the government is keen to support. Markets from Australia to Brazil are seeking ...More

QUITO: Polar bears, whales, sharks and gazelles were among 31 new species granted new protection status by the UN conservation body, following six days of "intense" talks by leading conservationists ...More

In a setback to the fight against global warming, a new study has warned that Britain is set to miss key carbon emission cut targets, media reported Monday. According to London's Imperial College, th ...More

KATHMANDU: An international conference on climate change began here today with the participation of more than 200 scientists, policy makers, government officials and parliamentarians from countries ...More

The Indian government must not use "equity" to block climate-change negotiations. It must instead be proactive on equity and put forward a position on how to operationalise the sharing of the carbon b ...More

The country will not face any problem arising from a climate change impacting milk production even after a decade if local breed of cows are "conserved and developed", Union Agriculture Minister Rad ...More

We will soon formulate a view and seek support for it, the Environment Minister says Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Friday said there was no confusion in India’s position vis-à-vis China o ...More

NAGPUR: Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), a statutory body under the ministry of environment, forests & climate change, is finalizing a wildlife crime database for all 47 tiger reserves in the cou ...More

A day after G-20 sherpa Suresh Prabhu said that India should not align with China on climate issues, the government distanced itself from his view with environment minister Prakash Javadekar saying it ...More

The periodical reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN panel that studies climate issues, has issued serious warnings about the consequences of unchecked emission of gree ...More

India’s position on the subject is changing. One, it has begun distancing itself from China. As the world’s highest carbon emitter, it makes little sense to treat China in the same way as other deve ...More

A day after being dropped from the high-level panel on climate change, environmentalist and director general of Centre for Science and Environment Sunita Narain Friday said it is the prime minister's ...More

MUMBAI: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India founder, Ingrid Newkirk, willfully caged herself in Bandra on Thursday outside the American chicken-meat restaurant chain KFC in order ...More

On how sacred groves are restored across the country. The origin of the ancient sacred groves, scattered all over India, goes back to the pre-agricultural hunter–gatherer. As he migrated in search o ...More