From the brightest minds in the world to Hollywood glamour — they were all promised at the inauguration of the three-day Indian Student Parliament (ISP) organised by the prestigious Maharashtra Inst ...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

MUMBAI: All new development projects must factor in the impact of climate change and sea level rise, said environmentalists on Thursday. The suggestions are likely to be incorporated by the municip ...More

Most 23-year olds spend their days tweeting stuff, liking friends’ updates on Facebook or posting pictures on Instagram. Sahil Bhagat, however, had slightly different ideas occupying his mind. The 23- ...More

MUMBAI: Domestic transmission and distribution companies need to tap global opportunities to increase exports from the current $ 5 billion to $ 25 billion in the next five years, a World Bank official ...More

BANGALORE: Young Mary from Bangalore was suffering from incessant bouts of cough. Soon, the episodes started getting longer. Mary, 3, was treated for her bouts for some time, before doctors could zero ...More

Amid controversy and debate over the precise impact of global warming on the Himalayas, glaciologists analysed a massive cache of data on the mountain range and have concluded that it lost 13 per cent ...More

The record-breaking cold spell sweeping the United States underscores yet again that climate change and its impact is real. Winter in the US this year has been an extreme weather event. A polar vortex ...More

American Energy Secretary has cancelled his crucial trip to India slated this month, in view of the strained relations between the two countries over the arrest of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade o ...More

World Economic Forum (WEF) today said health and environment will figure prominently in its upcoming Davos Annual Meeting, which is expected to be attended by a large Indian delegation along with top ...More

Amid controversy and debate over the precise impact of global warming on the Himalayas, glaciologists analysed a massive cache of data on the mountain range and have concluded that it lost 13 per cent ...More

WASHINGTON: US energy secretary Ernest Moniz has cancelled his crucial trip to India this month in view of the strained relations between the two countries over the arrest of an Indian diplomat on all ...More

With soaring ambitions trimmed, the White House is charting a dogged course to repair President Barack Obama's popularity and to limit a natural waning of his political powers. Obama endured a brutal ...More

India has reached a milestone in rocketry with the successful launch of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle ( GSLV) last Sunday. The Indian Space Research Organisation ( ISRO) has demonstrated ...More

NEW DELHI: Study of glaciers has brought together four universities - Jawaharlal Nehru University, University of Kashmir, Jammu University and Sikkim University - who have initiated a massive research ...More

KOLKATA: Researchers from India, Britain and Bangladesh are studying the impact of climate change on livelihoods of those living in Sunderbans mangroves, the world's largest mangrove forests. More ...More

Environmental sustainability is the need of the hour. The concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has increased to unprecedented levels. From 1750 to 2011, deforestation and other land use ...More

KOLKATA: Researchers from India, Britain and Bangladesh are studying the impact of climate change on livelihoods of those living in Sunderbans mangroves, the world's largest mangrove forests. More ...More

Vested with the Herculean task of fast-tracking decisions on scores of large projects, environment minister M Veerappa Moily has embarked on a drive to reassign jobs to the key officials in his minist ...More

A national seminar on ‘Spatial Technologies for Watershed Planning’, for discussing various strategies for the utilisation of spatial technologies for effective land use planning, will be held here fr ...More