Hyderabad: Parts of the state could become a desert in future if the past repeats itself. A research on the occurrence of “peculiar� sand dunes in Prakasam district of the state has found evidence ...More

WASHINGTON: A boom in gas production will reshape the US role in Asia and could fuel new tensions with a growing, energy-hungry China, a new report says. US foreign policy has historically been ba ...More

NEW DELHI: Amid growing decline of per capital annual availability of water in India, different central ministries have resolved to chalk out a joint strategy to ensure efficient use of the natural re ...More

NEW DELHI: Multilateral lending agency Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide loan of $2 billion annually for five years till 2017 to India to create jobs, enhance investment reforms, and improve i ...More

NEW DELHI: In a move that will put India at odds with both developing and least developed countries at the upcoming climate change conference, Delhi plans to take a strong line, putting the onus of pr ...More

Next week when governments meet for another round of climate change negotiations in Warsaw, they will have one more sobering fact to consider. Data released by the World Meteorological Organization (W ...More

New Delhi: The amount of greenhouse gases in the world’s atmosphere reached a record high in 2012, according to the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Between 1990 and 2012, ...More

Multilateral lending agency Asian Development Bank ( ADB ) will provide loan of $2 billion annually for five years till 2017 to India to create jobs, enhance investment reforms, and improve infrastruc ...More

Oslo/London: World governments are likely to recoil from plans for an ambitious 2015 climate change deal at talks next week, courtesy concern over economic growth partially eclipsing scientists’ war ...More

“The most important milestone to be set at Warsaw is on climate finance,� says Jayanthi Natarajan, Union Environment and Forests Minister, in an interview ahead of the climate negotiations beginni ...More

World carbon dioxide pollution levels in the atmosphere are accelerating and reached a record high in 2012, the UN weather agency said today. The heat-trapping gas, pumped into the air by cars and ...More

With Bangladesh approving commercial farming of Bt brinjal - a genetically modified (GM) crop developed using technology that evolved originally in India - the moratorium put on tests of a similar gen ...More

Hyderabad, Nov. 5: The Union Agriculture Ministry is batting for contract farming and wants those involved in farming to repeat the success witnessed by the poultry sector in agriculture too. Du ...More

Expressing concern over youth keeping away from agriculture as it is increasingly becoming less remunerative, chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy called upon the agriculture scientists, companies and p ...More

The world is far from making the greenhouse gas emission cuts between now and 2020 to keep the global temperature rise from going above two degree Celsius, said the Emission Gaps Report 2013, authored ...More

The tenement blocks collapsed like sandcastles. Landmarks were swallowed up like Lego bricks. But most devastating of all was the massive loss of life — families torn apart by a disaster of frightenin ...More

NEW DELHI: An effort to provide developing countries with funds to tackle climate change and its adverse impacts will be on top of the agenda at the UN-sponsored climate change meet in Warsaw. A m ...More

NEW DELHI: Unchecked climate change, scientists warn, will slow down economic growth, impact poverty reduction, lower food production and drive up food prices. A leaked copy of the draft report of ...More

Time to take action to counter the adverse impacts of climate change is running out, and countries must scale up their efforts to reduce emissions and adapt to the phenomenon, says Christiana Figueres ...More

A.P. government draws flak for co-sponsoring the World Agricultural Forum Congress The World Agricultural Forum Congress and Trade Fair 2013 got off to an unexciting start on Tuesday amid concerns e ...More