The 19th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (CoP 19), which began on Monday in Poland, marks a crucial milestone towards negotiating an effective global warmi ...More

Coming just before the fortnight-long United Nations-sponsored negotiations on climate change began in Warsaw, the catastrophic super typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines served as a grim reminder of the ...More

Ecologists at UN climate talks in Warsaw downed forks today in a solidarity fast with the typhoon-ravaged Philippines' chief negotiator, demanding "ambitious action" to halt global warming. When t ...More

Voicing concern over problem of declining values in society due to identity-based conflicts and terrorism, Vice President M Hamid Ansari today said faculties of intellect, conscience and will should b ...More

Corporation councillors cutting across political affiliations registered their strong protest over keeping city Mayor Tony Chammany away from the events related to the visit of Prince Charles. The Co ...More

Ministers of 19 member countries belonging to the India Ocean Region-Association for Regional Co-operation (IOR-ARC) met in Perth on November 1 for their 13th meeting. In a symbolic but significant mo ...More

The first step to restore Vellayani Lake began last month with Revenue authorities carrying out a survey to demarcate the lake’s boundary. The work to identify the boundary line began on October 10 ...More

With the failure of market ideologies to provide solutions to the pressing problems of our times, the world needs a new mode of governance based on consensus and coexistence, not competition and conqu ...More

We can't say whether climate change led to Typhoon Haiyan, but we can help nations at risk. Thousands dead, hundreds of thousands made homeless. Parents holding the broken corpses of their children, ...More

Science Express, a mobile exhibition mounted on a specially-designed 16 coach air-conditioned train carrying exhibits on the unique biodiversity of India, will arrive on platform number 16 at the seco ...More

The Aluva Municipality is all set to receive a bounty from the UK government. It is learnt that the UK government will sponsor a master plan for the municipality, making the municipality ‘future pro ...More

A slowdown in global warming that climate sceptics cite in favour of their cause was partly induced by one of the world's most successful environment treaties, a study said today. The UN's Montreal ...More

WARSAW: As representatives of some 190 countries gather at the National Stadium in Warsaw for the annual UN-sponsored climate change negotiations, the focus will be on ways to reduce emission of green ...More

CHENNAI: At 18, Riddhima Yadav from Delhi was the youngest of the 10 speakers at the 4th edition of 'TEDxYouth@Chennai'. But she was among the most vociferous on a burning issue that she said has had ...More

Forty years ago, the US and much of the Europe learned difficult lessons about their dangerous addiction to fossil fuels. Following Israel’s victory in the Yom Kippur War, the Arab members of the ...More

In rushing to embrace the U.S. proposal to amend the Montreal Protocol on ozone depletion, New Delhi has neither helped multilateral efforts to tackle climate change nor ensured that the appliances in ...More

New Delhi, Nov. 10: India’s only top-tier Unesco institute plans to reach out to 44 countries in the conflict-ridden Asia-Pacific region with research fellowships as it marks its first anniversary o ...More

COIMBATORE: Academics often complain that there are hardly any authoritative texts on our native wealth especially with regard to our plant species. In a bid to overcome this limitation a few research ...More

KANPUR: With the sudden rise in air pollution, especially after Diwali and early onset of winter, the cases of respiratory ailments and asthma have increased. According to the doctors, the number of p ...More

SHIMLA: While tourist places like Manali and Dalhousie have witnessed early snowfall this year resulting into tourism boom, Shimla is still awaiting season's first snowfall. Global warming has not onl ...More