Climate change talks are poised at a critical stage before the Conference of Parties meets in Paris in 2015 to finalise a new treaty, and India’s alliances with developing countries assume significanc ...More

The ice discharge from Antarctica could become the largest contributor to sea level rise much sooner than previously thought, says a study. "If greenhouse gases continue to rise, ice discharge from A ...More

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will miss a climate change summit, being spearheaded by the UN, on September 23 in New York. Modi is scheduled to be in New York to deliver his first addr ...More

Climate change remains the most serious threat to the Great Barrier Reef and the outlook for the natural wonder is "poor", an Australian government report has warned. The World Heritage site on the n ...More

The government today said it has submitted proposals for financial assistance to Global Environment Fund and Adaptation Fund under Kyoto Protocol for implementation of mitigation and adaption activi ...More

The long-pending Renuka Dam project has got approval from the forest advisory committee (FAC) of the Union ministry for environment, forests and climate change. This has been done without the tricky i ...More

BEIJING: The Tibetan plateau, whose glaciers supply water to hundreds of millions of people in Asia, were warmer over the past 50 years than at any stage in the past two millennia, a Chinese newspaper ...More

How to break the cycle of El Nino, floods & droughts August 12, 2014: The life of the Indian farmer is indeed daunting. If farming itself was not hard enough, it has only become even more complex ...More

District-level competitions in schools highlighting the importance of conservation of biodiversity will be conducted as part of the ‘‘Biodiversity Congress for Children’’ being organised by the Kerala ...More

There are few areas of public discourse where the old adage, “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones,” is more applicable than climate change. Given that fossil fuels are the lifeblo ...More

To put pressure on developed nations to take responsibilty New Delhi, August 10: India, along with other major developing nations such as China and Brazil, could well be on its way to standing up ...More

In the alphabet soup world of political and economic diplomacy, there is a triplet: IBSA comprising India, Brazil and South Africa; and a quintet: BRICS comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and S ...More

A proposed pipeline from Canada to the United States may result in much higher greenhouse gas emissions than previously calculated as it could fuel greater oil consumption through higher production ...More

A proposed pipeline from Canada to the United States may result in much higher greenhouse gas emissions than previously calculated as it could fuel greater oil consumption through higher production an ...More

An analysis of State action plans to combat climate change reveal a lack of innovative approaches and a high variation in budgets apart from the fact that many did not move ahead from the business as ...More

Among the admirable and enjoyable sights along the sidewalks of big cities, the ingenious adaptation of old buildings for new uses is the most enduring one. A glance at the patina of the old walls of ...More

New Delhi: Regretting that the responses of countries were not adequate to combat climate change issue, environment minister Prakash Javadekar said on Saturday that the time has come to “incentivize ...More

The rains have fallen short. An agrarian crisis is seemingly upon us. The Green Revolution was supposed to take care of everything. It was supposed to reduce dependence on the fickle monsoon, increa ...More

NEW DELHI, Aug 9 – The Centre has declined permission to the Manipur Government to cut down over 78,000 trees for the Tipaimukh Hydro Project. Keeping in view that requirement of forest land is large ...More

NEW DELHI: India on Friday said it was time for developed nations to "walk the talk" in addressing climate change with four BASIC nations jointly asking rich countries to take lead in dealing with the ...More