I am deeply honoured at this invitation to speak at the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China. I am conscious of the unique place that this School holds in the governance system of cont ...More

Some of the largest pension funds in the US and the world are worried that major fossil fuel companies may not be as profitable in the future because of efforts to limit climate change, and they want ...More

Following the success of the "Muzaffarpur model" of tree plantation along rural roads in Bihar, the Centre has asked all states to adopt it under the rural job scheme MNREGA to provide protection to p ...More

Myanmar will join all member states of the UN to support the organisation in implementing its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 and beyond, President U Thein Sein said Thursday. "While prog ...More

CHENNAI: IIT-Madras will host a two-day national conference on climate change on October 26 and 27. This conference, being organized under the banner of Indian Climate Research Network, will featu ...More

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO: California governor Jerry Brown said on Thursday he plans to sign an agreement to formally align the state's climate and clean energy policies with those of Oregon, Washingto ...More

Former US vice president Al Gore has urged President Barack Obama to block the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada, likening the carbon-intense project to drug addiction. Gore, who has championed ...More

New Delhi: This year’s monsoon, and the frequent instances of extreme weather conditions India has experienced, could potentially have a bearing on the country’s agricultural economy, experts say. ...More

India must discuss phasing down hydrofluorocarbons which endanger the planet. In September, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Barack Obama agreed to discuss how hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) ...More

HYDERABAD: Three days of incessant rain triggered by the northeast monsoon has brought Hyderabad to a halt and exposed the government's poor contingency measures as waterclogged arterial routes threw ...More

Prime Manmohan Singh today sought Chinese investments in manufacturing and infrastructure sectors in India and called for market access in China for Indian IT and Pharmaceutical firms. "There are en ...More

HYDERABAD: Intermittent showers in Hyderabad have flummoxed Met officials, while climate change experts said it is increasingly becoming difficult to predict future weather events in the country, cons ...More

What has been your carbon footprint for the day? Did you forget that you had the geyser on as you caught up with the morning news? Or was the stove on as you rummaged through the fridge to fix breakfa ...More

Sticking to its stand, New Delhi says HFCs must be dealt within UNFCCC talks, not under Montreal Protocol’ Sticking to its stance of not allowing phase-out of climate changing refrigerant gases un ...More

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently took note of modelling that suggests some geo-engineering methods, if realisable, have the potential to substantially offset a global temp ...More

The lack of scientific certainty should be no reason to postpone cost-effective measures to prevent climate change. The international community has been caught in the quagmire of the veracity and ac ...More

The United States does not want the new global climate agreement to have any ‘rigid rules’ or penalties for countries that do not meet their greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. The US speci ...More

Thousands of Australians were urged to evacuate their homes on Wednesday as dry winds threatened to fan a firestorm in mountainous bushland around Sydney, where firefighters battled to control blazes ...More

The Dalai Lama reveals secrets of a blissful life to ET-Travel His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso graced the 7th Global Spa & Wellness Summit held recently in New Delhi as a keynote ...More

A 4.5cm-wide meteorite could offer clues to how Mars lost its thick, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere and turned into a cold, rocky desert, researchers say. Microscopic analysis of the meteorite als ...More