THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Tackling climate change, disaster management are among the issues set to be discussed at an international conference to be held here in February next year. Nearly 500 scienti ...More

Australia's Academy of Science has recently said that the Australian government's draft plan to protect the Great Barrier Reef cannot prevent its decline. The scientists have argued that the plan fai ...More

The Indian Ocean is a critically important geo-economic space for the countries that border it as well as all others whose ships and strategic lines pass through. It was with this in mind that the Ind ...More

NEW DELHI: Delhi's air has again made headlines for the wrong reasons. The US embassy's pollution monitor at Chanakyapuri on Wednesday measured air quality at 'very unhealthy' levels, prompting a post ...More

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As many as 500 scientists and policy makers, including 200 from abroad, will meet here next February at a global conference where various aspects of tackling climate change and dis ...More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheme to rejuvenate the Ganga has left little for other rivers, and for the authority that will continue to look after those. From the National River Conservation Plan’ ...More

SRINAGAR: A study jointly conducted by J&K Department of Department of Environment, Ecology and Remote Sensing (DEERS) and National Remote Sensing Centre, ISRO, Hyderabad has revealed that unpreceden ...More

Washington: Researchers have been working to turn the waste from whisky making into fuel and ultimately planning to make it a commercial reality, it has been reported. Celtic Renewables, formed in 20 ...More

HYDERABAD : Authorities must immediately launch a study on the possible rise in sea surface temperature near Visakhapatnam, which could have caused the first-ever cyclone hitting the Port City, climat ...More

Australia’s multi-million dollar plan to halt the worrying decline of the fragile Great Barrier Reef does nothing to address the threat of climate change and is unlikely to save the iconic reef, accor ...More

Though studies point to an increase in the pace of glacier wastage in the western Himalayas, long-term monitoring is required to study glacier evolution and its relation to the climate At dawn, Mohd ...More

Do not expect any country to up its fight against climate change between now and 2020. That is the plain reading of the diplomatic gobbledygook produced at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Chang ...More

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The public health scenario in Kerala is facing many challenges in spite of its well acclaimed achievements in the field, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said. He was inaugurating the ...More

BRUSSELS: The UN climate summit in 2015 will fail unless the United States sets "a concrete and ambitious" goal to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard warned. ...More

Ahead of United Nations Climate Conference, India on Monday made a strong pitch for focusing on adaptation and common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDR) as part of the new global order on clim ...More

Are environmental clearances holding up industrial and infrastructure investment in India? India's manufacturing sector has struggled to increase its contribution to gross domestic product and infrast ...More

NEW DELHI: The Central Pollution Control Board, assigned a key role in the PM's pet project - clean and rejuvenate Ganga river, has remained headless for 3 years as panel of shortlisted names for ap ...More

The head of the United Nations's climate science panel urged national policymakers on Monday not to lose heart in the face of a mighty challenge to tackle global warming. "It is not hopeless," Rajend ...More

Future-oriented women are more likely to take concrete steps to reduce global warming, says a study. "They are more politically liberal and liberals are more likely to value the environment which mak ...More

A new study has revealed that circulation of the ocean plays an equally important role in regulating the earth's climate. According to the study, say the major cooling of Earth and continental ice bu ...More