Thanks to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), green technology and its industrial use became everyone’s pet project over the past decade. “CER (certified emission reduction, an emission unit or ...More

NEW DELHI: Amid all-round criticism from environmentalists for ignoring sensitive green issues under new environment minister M Veerappa Moily, the government has approved a pending Rs 290 crore sch ...More

The adverse effects of climate change are being felt on more than a fourth of India’s landmass over the last four decades. While some parts of the country have turned arid, others have witnessed more ...More

Emissions grew by 2.2% on average during 2000-10 The U.N. climate science panel’s yet to be released report will come up with a dire warning that the world would have to reduce greenhouse gas emiss ...More

India should look at compulsory licensing as an option for emergency situations where patent-protected products are prohibitively expensive. As a balanced approach, the policies can limit patents to 1 ...More

Electricity-hungry India is flipping the switch on huge new solar energy projects to fuel its growing economy, using cheap — mainly Chinese — foreign technology to reduce once sky-high generation ...More

MUMBAI: How does the design of a city affect its inhabitants? How do urban spaces or lack of them, walkways, roads, sounds, vehicles etc make people feel about the city they live in? These are the cor ...More

Senior U.S. and Indian diplomats met in Washington on Tuesday to discuss strains in relations between the allies over the arrest of a senior Indian consular official in New York last month on charges ...More

PANAJI: An unexpected flooding at Morjim beach for a few days last week was due to spring tide, but villagers opine shifting the temporary structures closer to the water line this season was a blunder ...More

The three-day dialogue is the first highlevel interaction between the two sides since the December 12 arrest of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade in New York. It signifies a ratcheting down of tensio ...More

China's wetlands have shrunk nearly 9 percent since 2003, forestry officials said on Monday, aggravating water scarcity in a country where food production, energy output and industrial activity are al ...More

A change in the climate ushered in by monster storm Phailin appeared to have sent migratory birds away from Chilika lagoon this winter as their number has fallen by more than 1.5 lakh compared to the ...More

A White House blog and video last week identified the polar vortex—a huge system of moving swirling air that generally contains the polar air and circulates over the North Pole—that spread extreme ...More

A recent analysis by KPMG India of quantitative and qualitative aspects of corporate responsibility (CR) reporting by top 100 listed companies (by gross revenue) confirmed the worst fears of corporate ...More

New Delhi: India is preparing to oppose any move by developed countries to include so-called “21st century issues� such as services, competition, investment and climate change in the post-Bali w ...More

During a conversation this week with a Delhiite, she expressed concern over the freeze that has dominated this part of the world in recent days. “What’s the temperature like in Toronto?� she ask ...More

LONDON: Droughts in Europe would become more frequent and intense due to climate change and increased water use by the end of this century, weather predictions released on Friday said. Southern parts ...More

PUNE: Director of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) Sunita Narain emphasized the need for promoting bicycle as a means of transport in cities in a big way to tackle the problem of air pollution ...More

I was never gladder to be living in hot, stinky India than last week. That was when the Internet became overrun by stills from the climate change disaster movie, The Day After Tomorrow, in which a mon ...More

Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) Director Devang Khakhar has been given an extension after his term came to an end. He was first appointed as the director of the institute in January 2009 ...More