Every year, like clockwork, India is caught between the spectre of months of crippling water shortages and drought and months of devastating floods. In 2014, there has been no respite from this annu ...More

LONDON: The world's major economies are falling further behind every year in terms of meeting the rate of carbon emission reductions needed to stop global temperatures from rising more than 2 degree ...More

The cost of adopting mitigation technologies and the collapse of carbon credit markets remain major concerns Paris 2015 is the buzzword among the global climate change community today, when the count ...More

SHIMLA: Lalpani, a reserve forest, lies four kilometres off Shimla. For all the protection it is supposed to get, there is a giant heap of rubbish festering in it, a proof of neglect and contempt for ...More

The British government is very keen to see the operationalising of the Green Climate Fund (GCF). “It was never us blocking the process nor was it the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Developm ...More

Former Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh set a cat among the pigeons, in his inimitable style, at a recent national conference on climate and sustainable development at the Tata Institute of ...More

The British government is very keen to see the operationalising of the Green Climate Fund (GCF). “It was never us blocking the process nor was it the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Developm ...More

GUWAHATI: Promising to curb rhino poaching in Assam, Union minister of state for environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC) Prakash Javadekar announced a Centre-funded special rhino protection fo ...More

With the annual mean temperature in the country showing a rising trend in the past 100 years, environment experts have urged the public to take steps to reduce the impact of this global crisis at a co ...More

The Prime Minister wants us to “manufacture goods with zero effect” on the environment. Is this is possible? “Sanitation was unheard of. Water was unpurified, and raw sewage ran down city streets in ...More

Prakash Javadekar announces that a rhino protection force will be raised Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar announced here on Saturday that a Special Rhino ...More

NEW DELHI: In the run up to the UN climate summit in New York, Indian scientists and the Indian National Science Academy (Insa) urged policy makers to take "actionable steps" to reduce the impact of c ...More

Sir David King, the UK foreign secretary's special envoy on climate change, on Friday urged for a global programme to tackle climate change. '' During the cold war the Apollo Programme placed a man ...More

GUWAHATI: Even as Union minister of state for environment, forest and climate change Prakash Javadekar has promised zero tolerance to rhino poaching, wildlife conservation organizations have pointed o ...More

Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar on Saturday said that a Special Rhino Protection Force would be raised by recruiting local youth to bring down the number o ...More

Kochi: Even as Kochi is highly vulnerable to the vagaries of extreme weather conditions and climate change impacts compared to other cities in the country, the city corporation is yet to implement th ...More

Kohora, Sept. 5: Union minister of state (independent charge) environment, forests and climate change Prakash Javadekar today said he would seek a report from CBI on the status of its inquiry into the ...More

In one year, India’s ozone pollution damaged millions of tons of the country’s major crops, causing losses of more than a billion dollars and destroying enough food to feed tens of millions of peopl ...More

Guwahati: In the wake of rise in rhino poaching at Kaziranga National Park and strident criticism by BJP, Union minister of state for environment, forest and climate change Prakash Javadekar has promi ...More

BANGALORE: Bangalore International Airport Limited today said it has been formally accorded the EC ( Environmental Clearance) for second stage expansion of the Kempegowda International Airport, Bengal ...More