The US Navy's first two advanced P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft have arrived in Japan, US military officials said on Monday, helping to upgrade America's ability to hunt submarines and other vessels in ...More

After more than 35 hours of continuous discussions, Ravi Shankar Prasad, one of India’s lead negotiators, described the United Nations climate change conference as “a partial success� for keepin ...More

First there was the Wikileaks disclosure of low-grade correspondence between American diplomats — for which Bradley Manning is serving 35 years and Julian Assange is cowering in London. Then came th ...More

US ambassador to India Nancy Powell, 66, categorically said on Monday that an Indo-US strategic treaty will never be signed. She was taking part in an interaction with a select group of journalists a ...More

Q: What should big business’s role be in promoting meaningful corporate social responsibility and good governance around the world? —Dani, Uganda A: When I was 16, I dropped out of school to st ...More

Berlin, Dec 3: The fact that more than two-thirds of countries are corrupt will hinder economic recovery, as well as the fight against poverty and climate change, corruption watchdog Transparency ...More

Urban planners and environmental analysts have stressed the need for the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the revised draft NCR Regional Plan-2021 and other such broad scale plans and repre ...More

Ooty: Indian Red Cross Soceity in Nilgiris (IRCS-Nilgiris), which had been focused so far on community service, disaster management and health camps has decided to concentrate more on greening aspects ...More

LUCKNOW: Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, on Sunday, said change in the lifestyle is required to protect the environment from being polluted. Yadav who was speaking during a programme, 'Ek Sur Ek Taal' ...More

Compensation or reparation for damages associated with any country’s contribution to historical emissions amounts to a ‘duty to make amends’ and is not an act of charity India joined nearly 14 ...More

GUWAHATI, Dec 1 - A group of 25 ex-Servicemen belonging to 135 INF BN (Territorial Army) Eco Assam led by Colonel BP Segan called on Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi at his official residence late evening y ...More

While public attention has been focused on the shortfalls in city governance at the local level, the implications of mega cities — those with more than 10 million souls — have largely gone unnotic ...More

NEW DELHI: North India is likely to heat up more than the southern parts of the country while the entire Indian subcontinent may see longer rainy seasons in second half of the century, the UN's climat ...More

NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing debate over how to arrive at a global climate deal which may be acceptable to all nations, new research on greenhouse gas emissions has listed 90 companies - mostly belongi ...More

In the last 100,000 years or so, our planet has endured an Ice Age and a few mini-ice ages. But now, with the earth on track to be four degrees Celsius warmer by 2100, a “Heat Age” is looming over us ...More

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management (GIDM) at its day-long brainstorming session on 'The Roadmap and Perspective of GIDM' recently decided to make it a Centre of Excellence at the ...More

WARSAW: Laughing gas is, indeed, no laughing matter. The United Nation Environment Programme (UNEP) on Thursday released an eye-opening report on the sidelines of the ongoing climate talks, warning th ...More

The United Nations conference on climate change in Warsaw finalised, more or less, the venue and date for a final global agreement in Paris, 2015, but has left almost all other details and initiatives ...More

This year’s October meeting of the CCAMLR (Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources) in Hobart, Australia ended on a sorry note with no consensus on designation of MPAs ...More

Climate change could cause countries in the Pacific region to lose as much as 12.7 percent of their gross domestic product (GDP), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Tuesday. In its latest report t ...More