New Delhi, Aug. 8: Union environment and forests minister Prakash Javadekar today iterated India’s long-standing position on climate change, highlighting voluntary actions taken to curb Earth-warming ...More

NEW DELHI: Environment Ministers of BASIC countries including India and China today said developed countries should "walk the talk" in addressing climate change in keeping with their historic responsi ...More

Noting that response of many countries is not adequate to combat climate change, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today said time has come for "enhanced action" by developing nations. "We are ...More

KOCHI: Tata Global Beverages has announced guidelines to sustainable beverage production and consumption. The company plans for 100 per cent sustainable sourcing by 2020. The sustainability strategy r ...More

The Gray langur gives us his views on who could possibly be responsible for climate change in the world. Dear All, Perhaps I am not the only one to be tired of reading the nasty and abusive letters ...More

Developmental activities in the green belt to come under scanner New Delhi, August 7: The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change is setting up a three-member committee to look into t ...More

Global warming has been going on for so long that most people were not even born the last time the Earth was cooler than average in 1985 in a shift that is altering perceptions of a "normal" climate, ...More

Union Minister of State for Environment Prakash Javadekar said on Wednesday that cautious approach needed to be taken in the context of genetically modified (GM) crops and India cannot say ‘no’ to sci ...More

New Delhi: Environment, forests and climate change minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday stuck to the government’s position of agreeing to no binding greenhouse gas emission cuts, even as India vo ...More

NEW DELHI: Representatives of BASIC countries — Brazil, South Africa, India and China — will meet here on Thursday to chalk out common ground on crucial issues ahead of the climate change talks in Lim ...More

New Delhi: India is not bound to mandatorily cut greenhouse gas emission levels under Kyoto Protocol but voluntary efforts are being undertaken to reduce them, the government said ton Wednesday. Indi ...More

The two –day 18th BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) Ministerial Meeting will get underway on Thursday to discuss important issues relating to the current UNFCCC Climate Change ne ...More

A new international study shows that damage from wind, bark beetles, and wildfires due to climate change has increased drastically in Europe’s forests in recent years. ...More

Allaying apprehensions that green nod is being speeded up at the cost of environment, government today asserted that no forest clearance is given unless there is a plan in place to compensate the fore ...More

Zee Media Corporation Limited (ZMCL) on August 1 launched the 5th edition of its campaign 'My Earth My Duty'. The campaign addresses the issue of further degradation of environment. It is aimed at sen ...More

NAGPUR: In an attempt to encourage people to take up massive tree plantations outside natural forests, the ministry of environment, forests and climate change has called on states to liberalize fellin ...More

New Delhi, Aug 5: The latest fifth assessment report of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts a bleak future for the world, and especially South Asia. Hinting that it ma ...More

NEW DELHI: Over two months after the Narendra Modi Government came to power, the Centre has finally transferred departments related to rejuvenation of the Ganga to the Water Resources Ministry from th ...More

KOLKATA: The vast mangrove forest in the Sunderbans is fast losing its capacity to absorb carbon dioxide, one of the main greenhouse gases, from the atmosphere due to rise in the salinity of water, ra ...More

NEW DELHI: India should brace for more calamities like landslide that devastated a village near Pune, blocking of Kosi river in Nepal and catastrophic rain and flood in Uttarakhand last year. Climate ...More