WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama claimed progress in his second-term drive to combat climate change but said more must be done to address a generational problem. He appealed for patience and perse ...More

The new government at the Centre is firmly in the saddle and has started giving wings to the thoughts of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, on various issues facing the country including the green tas ...More

The North American yellow-and-black monarch butterfly, that migrates every winter from southern Canada to central Mexico in search of milkweed to lay its eggs, has been making news of late mainly beca ...More

Bid to cut down on time needed for green nods New Delhi, June 24: States that have put in place adequate environmental protection rules with regard to small mining projects of less than five hect ...More

Expressing concern over emergingchallenges due to climate change and increasing population, Himachal Pradesh Irrigation minister?Vidya Stokes today said comprehensive planning was needed to ensure con ...More

Heat and humidity will grow so intense that spending time outside will become dangerous. More than a million homes and businesses along the nation’s coasts could flood repeatedly before ultimately ...More

The North American monarch butterfly uses the Sun as well as Earth's magnetic field as navigational tools for its famous long-distance migration, scientists said today. The insects with their ch ...More

The monsoon, which provides 80 per cent of the total rainfall in the subcontinent and on which India is completely dependent for its agriculture, is witnessing disturbing changes and there has been ...More

NEW DELHI: India's macroeconomic uncertainties remain a major concern for investors even as the country saw a 17% increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) to $28 billion in 2013, the United Nations ...More

NEW YORK: Climate change is likely to exact enormous costs on US regional economies in the form of lost property, reduced industrial output and more deaths, according to a report backed by a trio of ...More

Annual property losses from hurricanes and other coastal storms of $35 billion; a decline in crop yields of 14 percent, costing corn and wheat farmers tens of billions of dollars; heat wave-driven dem ...More

The push to make green clearances transparent is all very well, but let us not reduce the process to a farce Two recent incidents have been a cause of worry to environmentalists and wildlife conserva ...More

WASHINGTON: Emperor penguins may be adapting to climate change better than expected, according to a new study which offers insights on the future of the species. The study led by the University of Min ...More

Global warming is generally expected to bring spring forward but a connected influx of plant species from warmer southern latitudes could counteract this effect, said a study. Ludwig Maximilian Unive ...More

We need freeways, but we also need forests. Crimes against women have been constantly in the news. But crimes against nature remain largely unreported. Given the current climate, with the Intellige ...More

ClimateWorks, one of the two international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) recently restricted by the National Democratic Alliance government from funding Greenpeace India Society in India, also ...More

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala government has planned to set up a study and research centre to have scientific knowledge on climate change, minister for environment and forest Thiruvanchoor Radhakrish ...More

Kerala Government planned to set up a Study and Research Centre to have scientific knowledge on climate change, Minister for Environment and Forest Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan told the Assembly toda ...More

Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau – the source of rivers such as the Brahmaputra – have shrunk by as much as 15 per cent, retreating by 8,000 square kilometres since 1980, according to a new Chinese gov ...More

New Delhi, June 18: The process for environment as well as mining clearances is set to go online from September 1 and November 1, respectively, Anil Swarup, Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretari ...More