Hyderabad, May 2: The US Green Building Council (USGBC) has ranked India as No 3 among the list of top 10 countries for LEED outside of the United States. Canada tops the list followed by China, ...More

NEW DELHI: Environmentalists have been warning about growing encroachments on the Yamuna floodplains being a recipe for disaster. Now, the latest UN panel report on climate change echoes these fears ...More

Summer’s here, as are the warning bells. As the city grapples with depleting water levels, Hema Vijay suggests simple measures to conserve water at home The World Water Council, Millennium Project, ...More

YOKOHAMA, JAPAN: Challenges such as extreme weather, rising seas and worsening scarcity of drinking water are forcing many Asian governments to confront the changes being wrought by a warming planet e ...More

More than 300 scientists from 115 countries, forming a Nobel-winning intergovernmental panel chaired by an Indian, have made some dire, but not hopeless, pronouncements on climate change from Japan. T ...More

NEW DELHI: A day after a UN panel predicted gloomy future for South Asia where climate change may even push nations to war due to pressure on natural resources, its chairman R K Pachauri on Tuesday ad ...More

The fact that humanity confronts grave danger in the form of global warming does not seem to have moved, or made any impact on, the political world (“Warming worsens hunger problems: U.N.,” April 1). ...More

For a while now — post the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Summit to be precise — the climate change story lost its way since most nations have been busy grappling with the economic downturn. Taking advan ...More

One third of the world may be at increased risk of drought by 2100 as warmer temperatures wring more moisture from the soil, a new study has warned. Increasing heat is expected to extend dry conditio ...More

Around one third of the earth may be at the greater risk of drought by 2100 as warmer temperatures extract more moisture from the soil, says a study. The study estimates that 12 percent of land will ...More

Perhaps now the deniers will cease their attacks on the science of climate change, and the American public will, at last, fully accept that global warming is a danger now and an even graver threat to ...More

The UN panel on climate change warned on Monday that famine, water shortage and increased regional tension could plague south Asia, especially India, if corrective steps weren’t taken soon to curb gre ...More

The extreme weather that has assailed the country over the last few years has crippled agricultural productivity and taken a human toll. Unable to repay debt and make ends meet, many farmers are takin ...More

Climate change threatens India's economy, food security. Greenpeace urges swift transition to renewable energy to disarm threat in light of new UN report. • Global warming threatens economy, food, wa ...More

Global warming poses a growing threat to the health, economic prospects, and food and water sources of billions of people, top scientists said in a report that urges swift action to counter the effect ...More

Yokohama: A United Nations scientific panel says global warming makes feeding the world harder and more expensive. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report says a warmer world wi ...More

India's high vulnerability and exposure to climate change and global warming will slow its economic growth, impact health and development, make poverty reduction more difficult and erode food security ...More

New Delhi, March 31 If rich nations think they can escape unscathed from the damaging effects of global warming, it’s time for a re-check. The new report of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Pane ...More

When China and another 132 nations in the G77 group raised their voice against the developed countries refusing to discuss a proposal to measure emissions from the time of the industrial revolution, t ...More

A U.N.-backed panel said on Monday climate change impacts are already taking place on all continents and across the oceans, however, the world is unprepared for risks from a changing climate. The Int ...More