Climate change would cast an adverse impact on water and energy resources and governments need to address these issues. This was the observation made by experts at a seminar on Climate change – Impa ...More

To explore the policy options for urban planning in response to climate change, a city based NGO, Environment Matters, organised a workshop on Saturday in collaboration with the National Institute of ...More

TRICHY: A state-level meet on 'Tamil Nadu state's environment policy and its impact on people's livelihood and environment' was held in Trichy on Friday. During the event, 17 recommendations were pass ...More

International Finance Corporation (IFC) plans to invest the funds it raised through rupee-linked offshore bonds in non-convertible debentures (NCDs) issued by Indian companies. The funds would only be ...More

New Delhi: Terming China a “unique development case�, former US undersecretary of state for political affairs Nicholas Burns on Friday said that both India and the US cannot and should not make Ch ...More

The consensus at the session on Sustainability: What’s Changing the World, Or Could was that countries need to wake up to the challenges posed by climate change and agree on how to provide a way of ...More

Experiencing the severe Himalayan winter in the Zangskar region shows Man’s negative impact on Nature Every little element in front of my eyes looked like scenes from a fantasyland. A deep blue bla ...More

The Jammu and Kashmir government will soon submit the final draft of the action plan on climate change to the Centre. "The state will send its final draft of action plan on climate change to the C ...More

Even as trade ministers worked hard to arrive at a compromise agreement - well past the time for the closing of the Bali Ministerial Conference on Friday - to declare the Ministerial a success, trade ...More

Pakistan on Wednesday asked India to withdraw its troops from Siachen, claiming their presence on the glacier was damaging the environment and polluting one of the country’s main sources of water supp ...More

WASHINGTON: Nasa has launched a new app that gives users a glimpse into how climate change and natural disasters are quickly transforming the landscape of the Earth. Human activities, a changing c ...More

The Warsaw meet failed to make progress in hammering out a post-Kyoto protocol mechanism. The international climate change negotiations have become like games set on quicksand. The more the negotiato ...More

A NASA application allows users to view 'before and after' images of the impact of human activities, a changing climate and natural disasters on Earth. With NASA's Images of Change iPad application, u ...More

BALI: It isn't just Pakistan's U-turn on the demand for a food security package that has surprised many. But having done so, negotiators from across the border are coming up with arguments that most e ...More

Over the years there has been considerable discussion on the issue of climate change and global trade of products and services in the renewable trade arena. Energy remains an important component of ...More

London, Dec. 4: The crossword celebrates its 100th birthday this month, and what better way to celebrate than by marking the small part it played in helping win the Second World War. Setters and solv ...More

GUWAHATI: Chief minister Tarun Gogoi has lauded the efforts of the 135 INF Bn (Territorial Army) eco task force and exhorted the force to plant more trees to make earth greener. "At a time when cli ...More

The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) in association with UNDP is conducting a short course on ‘building resilience through integrated development practice.’ It focuses on an integrated ...More

No person in recent memory has succeeded in creating so big a misunderstanding within the global policy elite as Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who has drawn attention to US's spying activities ...More

TRICHY: The time has come to look for ways to improve technology in coal-based industries as India is having more than 70% coal-based power stations, a situation that would continue for at least the n ...More