Allowing transfer of titles of settlers on forest lands will encourage encroachment of forest land besides upsetting the ecology of the State, warned ecologists. The State Cabinet had decided on Wed ...More

Union minister for commerce and industry Anand Sharma will inaugurate the third international conference on “Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility” at Cordia Group of Educational Institu ...More

On the eve of the ministerial round of discussions next week, Japan stunned the rest of the countries on Friday at the climate talks in Warsaw by announcing that it was ditching its earlier emission r ...More

TOKYO: Japan has drastically scaled back its target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, complicating efforts to forge a global climate change pact. The new target approved by the Cabinet on Fri ...More

SYDNEY: Thousands of people on Sunday rallied across Australia calling for stronger action on climate change, days after new conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott moved to abolish a carbon tax. ...More

Hyderabad: Climate change leading to alterations in the wind systems of the Pacific Ocean could be causing tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal. Scientists believe that changes in the wind systems ...More

For a look at what climate change could do to the world's food supply, consider what the weather did to the American Corn Belt last year. At the beginning of 2012, the Agriculture Department project ...More

A draft text of a ministerial decision on the controversial phasing out of refrigerant and global warming gases – hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) – circulating in the negotiations stirred debate on late Fri ...More

COLOMBO: Commonwealth leaders are to wrap up a summit in Sri Lanka on Sunday, looking to put on a united front after talks dominated by a bitter dispute over war crimes allegations. Leaders were expe ...More

Brasilia: Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon region rose 28% over the past year, the country’s environment minister, Izabella Teixeira, said on Friday, announcing she was calling an emergency meeting to ...More

Small enterprises should look at climate change as a business opportunity. Growing uptake of solar power and wind energy in Tamil Nadu should be seen by fledgling entrepreneurs as new avenues opened b ...More

COLOMBO: Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron made an historic visit Friday to Sri Lanka's former warzone, stealing the spotlight from a Commonwealth summit after the host, President Mahinda Rajapak ...More

MALE, Maldives: Abdulla Yameen will be sworn in as the Maldives' new president on Sunday after his shocking win over former leader Mohamed Nasheed, drawing a line under a bout of turmoil on the paradi ...More

Chandrapur: Environmental activists here staged a peaceful protest at the historic and cultural monuments in the city to stand in solidarity with the 30 people, who were arrested in Russia for peacefu ...More

The European Union has expressed disappointment at Japan's new greenhouse gas emission reduction target announced Friday, Xinhua reported. Tokyo said it would cut its carbon emissions by 3.8 percent ...More

The state government has moved the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity, seeking reduction in the solar power tariff under the solar power policy 2009, on grounds that it was hitting the consumer hard. ...More

Jellyfish population is abounding along the Kerala coast, threatening other species and creating havoc for fishing operations. Scientists studying the phenomenon feel that the proliferation of the spe ...More

When you arrive in Mumbai's international airport, you are greeted by a huge advertisement put up by Harbin Electric Corporation, one of the largest makers of turbines and boilers, used in India's pow ...More

Small enterprises should look at climate change as a business opportunity. Growing uptake of solar power and wind energy in Tamil Nadu should be seen by fledgling entrepreneurs as new avenues opened b ...More

Washington: What happened to the water on Mars? How did the Red Planet’s atmosphere become so thin over time? NASA’s MAVEN probe is scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to find out. The unmanned s ...More