Representatives from 20 cities from across South Asia will come together in Kochi on Wednesday to learn from each other on the issue of adaptation to climate change at the seminar on Asian Cities Ad ...More

Nature lovers in Delhi have a treat in the form of the ongoing CMS Vatavaran Film Festival. CMS Vatavaran, the environment wing of the Centre for Media Studies, Saket, is celebrating ten years of its ...More

The World Economic Forum's annual Global Gender Gap Report continues to rank Sweden and other Nordic countries at the top for gender equality. Not surprised then, to know, that the Stockholm Universi ...More

Bollywood actor Ranvir Singh visited the Institute of Technology and Future Management Trends (ITFT) in Mullanpur to promote his upcoming movie Ram-Leela, a Sanjay Leela Bhansali production. The actor ...More

VARANASI: Career options in the field of botany and biotechnology were discussed at length with school students on the fourth day of the INSPIRE, the programme organised at Banaras Hindu University (B ...More

Scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have developed a mathematical equation that may help predict calamities such as financial crashes in economic systems and epileptic seizures in the brain. ...More

Can climate change trigger any benefits? Popular perception suggests a negative answer. But rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is actually good for agriculture as it helps in crop growth ...More

If global temperatures rise by four to five degrees, a major portion of the city will be under the sea, warn experts who conducted a study on the impact of climate change in city. The study was conduc ...More

Chennai: No less a person than M.S. Swaminathan, the father of the green revolution, is now saying that agriculture is a risky profession. Addressing resea¬rche¬rs at the inauguration of a two-day ...More

Though the last three decades have been the warmest, there appears to be a hiatus in change of average temperature in the last 20 years even as global warming continues unchecked. The recently releas ...More

CHENNAI: Andaman & Nicobar and Lakshadweep islands have been named as the new "hope spots" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and oceanographer Sylvia Earle of Mission Blue, ...More

Short term beats long term most of the time, even when people understand where their long-term self-interest really lies. Take, for example, that well-known pair, Russia and the Maldives. Five years a ...More

What we desperately close our mind to is once again becoming pronounced ever more clearly: climate change is here; it is already bringing devastating extreme weather events; and it will become worse i ...More

NEW DELHI: The Solar Impulse - a revolutionary solar powered airplane which had completed its first cross-country journey in the USA in July - will make New Delhi and Varanasi its landing and departin ...More

In Uttarakhand, women take the lead role in reviving and maintaining civil forests under Van Panchayats even in the face of several obstacles Munni Adhikari, a resident of Dhaura Gram Sabha in Lamga ...More

Today, our costing and pricing systems ignore the negative externalities that actions by human society impose on the environment and the state of our natural resources. We do not find the right market ...More

Environment-conscious S. Puttaswamy has realised his dream of having a home garden. T.S. Atul Swaminathan on Puttaswamy's passion S. Puttaswamy always loved gardening. When in his early 20’s, he s ...More

PATNA: Believe it or not, but the fact is that the aspirants for the posts of VCs and pro-VCs are now busy brushing up their general knowledge before facing the interview at Raj Bhavan. With the searc ...More

With the hospitals and scanning centres in the city generating a huge volume of radioactive waste, Dr K Karthikeyan, ETI of Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB), said disposing of such waste was ...More

NEW YORK: A year after superstorm Sandy catastrophically flooded vast swaths of eastern US coastline, thousands of people still trying to fix their soaked and surf-battered homes are being stymied by ...More