Amidst severe criticism and protest from the opposition members, Thiruvananthapuram District Panchayat president Ansajitha Russel passed the third budget of the UDF panchayat committee for the 2014-15 ...More

NEW DELHI: India will collaborate with the four other BRICS countries in science and technology to generate new knowledge and develop innovative products, services and processes, critical to its and t ...More

The State government is soon expected to announce a new solar power policy which will seek to increase solar power production in the state to 2,000 MW by 2020. The policy, which, is in its final draft ...More

A billionaire retired investor is forging plans to spend as much as $100 million during the 2014 election, seeking to pressure federal and state officials to enact climate change measures through a ha ...More

People of the temperate zones are going to get hurt early, but not by gradual warming. Their weather is just going to get more and more extreme This is not how it was supposed to happen. The standard ...More

NAGPUR: Though India's first National Agroforestry Policy (NAP) announced by finance minister P. Chidambaram in the interim budget on Monday will help natural resource management and improve forest co ...More

NEW DELHI: The interim budget has given higher allocation for Environment and Forests this year compared to the full-fledged budget last year. The ministry this time got Rs 2693 crore as against R ...More

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Greens in the state are planning to move the National Green Tribunal (NGT) against the environmental clearance given by the State Environmental Impact Assessment Authority (SEI ...More

Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken about the dangers of climate change, calling it a weapon of mass destruction. Kerry called on Indonesia's leaders to work on cutting greenhouse emissions, cal ...More

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says climate change may be the world's ``most fearsome'' weapon of mass destruction and urgent action is needed to combat it. He compares those who deny its existenc ...More

Agricultural technologies can help increase global crop yields by as much as 67 per cent and cut food prices by in half by 2050, according to a new book, ‘Food Security in a World of Natural Resourc ...More

Chicago: A warmer Arctic could permanently affect the pattern of the high-altitude polar jet stream, resulting in longer and colder winters over North America and northern Europe, US scientists say. ...More

India will collaborate with the four other BRICS countries in science and technology to generate new knowledge and develop innovative products, services and processes, critical to its and the grouping ...More

DHARAMSALA: Recent decades have likely been the wettest on record in the semi-arid Tibetan plateau, researchers say, warning that any further large-scale warming might lead to even greater rainfall in ...More

NEW DELHI: US scientists have warned India of increased incidence of infectious and vector-borne diseases in coming years due to climate change. According to a report on climate change and infectiou ...More

CHENNAI: The Union cabinet will soon sanction 13,000 crore for the initial phase of the 10-year Green India Mission to increase forest cover and quality of forests in the country, said Union forest an ...More

NEW DELHI: Faced with criticism that it had rushed through green clearances to many projects by ignoring environmental concerns, the government may next week clear Rs 13,000 crore for its much awaited ...More

A windy stretch of the Mojave Desert once roamed by tortoises and coyotes has been transformed by hundreds of thousands of mirrors into the largest solar power plant of its type in the world, a milest ...More

Wednesday’s storm that pounded west and south west England and Wales with winds of 100 kms per hour has resulted in a trail of fresh destruction in areas already reeling under the effects of the wet ...More

Protection of sensitive classified information and privileged communications between senior government functionaries is an imperative of national security. Most recent disclosures by Edward Snowden ...More