Good for a greener future Government is readying a scheme to encourage green vehicles. Heavy industry ministry has sought finance ministry’s clearance to give subsidy ranging from 35% for pure electr ...More

KOLKATA: The UK government will share new technologies in clean and renewable energy to help India in addressing climate change in a way that its growth will not be affected, a British minister said. ...More

India faces the challenge of achieving gender equality, urban sustainability and improving public health, while it builds infrastructure for its fast-growing urban population, said renowned economist ...More

WASHINGTON: Whales have a powerful and positive influence on the function of oceans, global carbon storage, and the health of commercial fisheries, a new study suggests. "For a long time, whales h ...More

MELBOURNE: Besides cutting greenhouse gas emissions, technology, policies or plans that aim to slow down climate change should also take environmental factors such as water usage into account, say res ...More

MELBOURNE: Rising carbon dioxide levels worldwide could lead fish to lose their ability to recognise each other and make them "friendless" wanderers who will hang out with just about anybody, a new re ...More

CHENNAI: Before entering the gates of this seemingly nondescript school in the busy locality of T Nagar, one has to get rid of all plastic bags at the entrance, and disposable plastic bottles, as thes ...More

WASHINGTON: Whales have a powerful and positive influence on the function of oceans, global carbon storage, and the health of commercial fisheries, a new study suggests. "For a long time, whales h ...More

MELBOURNE: Besides cutting greenhouse gas emissions, technology, policies or plans that aim to slow down climate change should also take environmental factors such as water usage into account, say res ...More

Investors worldwide increasingly seem to believe that climate change presents opportunities as much as risks for business, despite the fact that the phenomenon itself is poorly understood and therefor ...More

A new study has revealed that additional investments of about 800 billion US Dollars per year are required globally from now to mid-century in order to limit climate change to 2 degree Celsius. How ...More

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With more incidents of norms violations in environmental clearances to projects coming out, the government has come under pressure to go for a comprehensive probe against the top o ...More

Sunita Narain is director general at the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a Delhi-based advocacy and not-for-profit organization. She believes it is important for the new government to co ...More

NEW DELHI: Bor Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra will become the country's 47th Tiger Reserve with Environment Ministry notifying it as a tiger reserve with an aim to strengthen the conservation effor ...More

GENEVA: Caribbean coral reefs could disappear within 20 years as overfishing has all but wiped out the fish that feast on coral-smothering algae, the UN and an international conservation watchdog warn ...More

NEW DELHI: Bor Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra will become the country's 47th Tiger Reserve with Environment Ministry notifying it as a tiger reserve with an aim to strengthen the conservation eff ...More

SURAT: Surat City Climate Change Trust (SCCT) will chalk out a definite strategy to tackle major challenges of reduction of greenhouse gas emission, pollution and atmospheric heat. "We are the only ...More

Bor Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra will become the country's 47th Tiger Reserve. MoS of Environment, Forests and Climate Change and the Chairperson of the National Tiger Conservation Authority, P ...More

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: P Sreekantan Nair, who has been in the eye of a storm following allegations during his term as director, Directorate of Environment and Climate Change, has been moved to the Pollut ...More

NEW DELHI: India today said it will play a proactive role to deal with climate change and strengthen the national action plan to tackle global warming. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, wh ...More