At a time when West Bengal aspires to make Kolkata comparable to London, it has apparently got something in common with some other UK cities in terms of spending on energy bills. According to a st ...More

Chennai: Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) will coordinate functions of their Mars orbiters — Mangalyaan and Maven — once both get ...More

OSLO: The Norwegian military said on Tuesday it plans to put its troops on a vegetarian diet once a week in a bid to fight a new kind of enemy — climate change. The army said its new meatless Mo ...More

Warsaw: India has been rated as a weakest performer in the environment and gender index (EGI), a first ever international index deve-loped to measure gender equality and women’s empowerment in the e ...More

WARSAW: Sensing that government alone won't be able to usher in climate change breakthroughs, the UN climate bodies on Tuesday launched a first-of-its kind-platform, where chief executives of major MN ...More

Warsaw, Nov. 19: The sun may have brightened the skies over the Polish capital today after quite some time but a cloud of mistrust hung at the national stadium where nearly 200 nations are negotiating ...More

WARSAW: Sensing that the government alone cannot bring climate change solution, the UN climate bodies on Tuesday launched a first of its kind platform where chief executives of big MNCs will join top ...More

CNR Rao's outburst against politicians hogged headlines but not the more important issue of pathetic spending on R&D that provoked the outburst. Amid the stir caused by Bharat Ratna awardee CNR Rao d ...More

WARSAW: Though the ongoing climate talks has failed to bring cheer to developing countries as rich nations have, so far, not made any commitment to set aside a corpus to battle global warming, hope sp ...More

The G77+China group delivered an ultimatum to the developed countries on the issue of Loss and Damage, threatening to walk out of the Warsaw negotiations if the developed countries did not stop blocki ...More

2.5 million people have died in last 30 years due to natural disasters and global economic losses caused by extreme weather events have risen to just under $200 billion a year over the last decade, a ...More

WARSAW: Controversial issue of handling HFCs, or climate-damaging refrigerant gas, is unlikely to get resolved in near future as both India and the US stuck to their respective positions on Monday, ma ...More

THE STATE OF THE EARTH: THE PHILIPPINES A human skull, one of dozens found in a destroyed public cemetery, is displayed atop a tomb in Hernani town, central Philippines, on Monday, after the graves ...More

From the Warsaw city centre there's only one route to the precinct where the rotund cement beast that doubles as a national sports stadium is holding United Nations climate change talks. That route i ...More

Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels will rise to a record 36 billion tonnes this year, a report by 49 researchers from 10 countries said, showing the failure of governments to ...More

An underwhelming draft negotiating text on how countries would enhance climate change actions in near and longer-term future, including under the 2015 agreement, left the developing countries disappoi ...More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Nasa's newest robotic explorer, Maven, rocketed toward Mars on Monday on a quest to unravel the ancient mystery of the red planet's radical climate change. The Maven spacec ...More

NASA is headed back to Mars, this time with a robotic scout named Maven that will attempt to solve the mystery of the red planet's radical climate change. Maven is scheduled to blast off aboard an u ...More

With the growing popularity of precision farming in industrialised countries, where workforce is a major limitation in managing large farms, for increasing food production with least damage to the env ...More

GUWAHATI: With rise in the number of cancer cases in Assam, chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday said there should be an intensive research to find out the causes behind the rise. The state government ...More