NEW DELHI: A leading advocacy group today claimed that rich nations forced the R K Pachauri-chaired Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to "drop" a chart accusing Western countries of consumpt ...More

Environmentalist R K Pachauri and economist Nitin Desai have been included in the Prime Minister’s council on climate change, which has been reconstituted and revised by Narendra Modi. The apex bod ...More

Sunita Narain, director general of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), and former environment secretary Pradipto Ghosh inducted in the council by former PM Manmohan Singh in 2007, were dropp ...More

NEW DELHI: The Centre for Science and Environment today refused to comment on the dropping of its Director General Sunita Narain from Prime MInister's high level panel on climate change, but instead a ...More

R.K. Pachauri retained; Sunita Narain, Ratan Tata dropped The Union government reconstituted the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change on Wednesday to coordinate the National Action Plan for Ass ...More

NEW DELHI: The UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief R K Pachauri, economist Nitin Desai and retired diplomat Chandrasekar Dasgupta have once again found place in the recons ...More

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today re-constituted a high-level advisory group on climate change, days ahead of a crucial UN meet on global warming in Peru. While the government retain ...More

KOCHI: Ashtamudi Estuary's short neck clam fishery today became the first Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified fishery in India. The Ashtamudi short neck clam fishery is the third fishery in ...More

New Delhi, November 5 Ahead of crucial UN meetings on global warming in Peru and later in Paris, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today reconstituted a high-level advisory group on climate change — Prime ...More

New Delhi, November 5: The Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change, which was defunct for the last three years, has been reconstituted by the Government on Wednesday. This comes ahead of key ...More

Agriculture scientists have questioned the credibility of a new study stating that India’s wheat production in India has fallen by 50% since 2010 because of rise in air pollution. “I don’t think that ...More

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday reconstituted a high-level advisory group on climate change, days ahead of a crucial United Nations (UN) meet on global warming in Peru. While the ...More

Earlier this week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reiterated its earlier warnings on global warming, saying there was now “unequivocal” evidence that global temperature was risin ...More

NEW DELHI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday reconstituted a high-level advisory group on climate change, ahead of a crucial UN meet on global warming in Peru. While the government retaine ...More

Listed among countries in the zones where the effect of climate change would be high on fishing, India is making efforts to train the fishery industry to adapt to climate changes and its depleting eff ...More

NEW DELHI: Barely three weeks before crucial negotiations in Lima, the government has reconstituted the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change, reducing its size and dropping members, including so ...More

NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday recast the almost defunct Prime Minister's council on climate change, a move seen as an effort to handle climate issues pro-actively from the top. The revamped ...More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday re-constituted a high-level advisory group on climate change, days ahead of a crucial UN meet on global warming in Peru. While the government retained TERI c ...More

India is vulnerable, in varying degrees, to a large number of hazards. More than 58.6 per cent of the landmass is prone to earthquakes of moderate to very high intensity; over 40 million hectares (12% ...More

Illegal wildlife articles like leopard skin, elephant tusks, rhinoceros horns were incinerated in the Delhi Zoo on Sunday. The products were seized over a period of time by the forest and wildlife ...More