NEW DELHI: In what appears to be another grim outcome of climate change, a study has found that forests in eastern Himalayas are gradually 'browning', with trees withering and foliage declining even d ...More

EU Finance Ministers fail to agree on putting any figure on the table at the Warsaw meet Hopes of a commitment from the developed world to scale up finance for the short term at the Warsaw climate c ...More

WASHINGTON: Forty years after an Arab oil embargo throttled the US economy, surging North American energy production has brought the United States closer to a long-dreamed "energy independence" that i ...More

‘With the U.P irrigation department draining water from the Okhla barrage, migratory species like the Greater Flamingo that have already arrived for winter are now leaving’ The Uttar Pradesh (U.P ...More

Dr L.S. Rathore, director-general of the Indian Meteorological Department interviewed by Biplab Banerjee Cyclone Phailin underlined the country’s preparedness to deal with an extreme weather event. ...More

The conventional understanding of parliamentary democracy is that there will be a ruling party (or coalition) and there will be an opposition side. However, given the experience of recent years, a ti ...More

WASHINGTON: Despite his win last week in a debt ceiling standoff with Republicans, President Barack Obama has limited ability to achieve his policy goals through legislation, which could result in inc ...More

India appears to be a creaking battleship struggling hard to come to terms with climate change. Not only has India become warmer than it was five decades ago but extreme weather events such as floodin ...More

Q. The earth is heating up and India seems to be teethering from one environmental disaster to the next? A. When we use the term environmental disaster, we externalise our responsibility in dealing w ...More

he latest report from the IPCC states in stronger language than ever before that human activity has set the earth on an irreversible path to climate change, the effects of which will persist for centu ...More

The India-US climate cooperation agreed to during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's recent summit meeting with President Barack Obama will also include a focus on improving the energy efficiency of air- ...More

‘With the U.P irrigation department draining water from the Okhla barrage, migratory species like the Greater Flamingo that have already arrived for winter are now leaving’ The Uttar Pradesh (U.P.) I ...More

Chennai: If Perambalur tops amo¬ng the districts in Tamil Nadu as the most vulnerable in terms of climate change challenges, Ari¬ya¬lur, Salem and Nam¬akkal follow closely in the ‘disaster map†...More

There are several reasons why the curious case of Ioane Teitiota should be taken note of by policymakers across the globe. Hailing from the Pacific island nation of Kiribati, Teitiota is seeking to be ...More

BHUBANESWAR: The Centre has selected Odisha as one of the three states where one district each would be selected to pilot a project called 'Establishing a climate change knowledge network in Indian ag ...More

LONDON: An Indian climate change activist who works with local communities and governments for environmental change has been awarded the Commonwealth youth award. Priti Rajagopalan, 23, received a ...More

Q. The earth is heating up and India seems to be teethering from one environmental disaster to the next? A. When we use the term environmental disaster, we externalise our responsibility in dealing w ...More

A satellite study of five mountainous tropical biodiversity hotspots around the globe, including tropical forests of the Himalayas, reveal that vegetation has been “browning” due to climate change. G ...More

A satellite study of five mountainous tropical biodiversity hotspots around the globe, including tropical forests of the Himalayas, reveal that vegetation has been “browning” due to climate change. G ...More

BEIJING: Britain opened the door to Chinese investors taking majority stakes in future nuclear plants on Thursday as finance minister George Osborne signed a deal aimed at helping find the billions of ...More