Rising ocean surface temperatures due to climate change could make fish accumulate more mercury inside their bodies, putting people who eat seafood at increased health risk, scientists have found. T ...More

The recently released 5th IPCC Assessment report on climate change says scientists are 95 per cent certain that humans are the ‘dominant cause’ of global warming, and have been since the 1950s. Ac ...More

WASHINGTON: Water vapour in Earth's stratosphere contributes to warmer temperatures and likely plays an important role in the evolution of climate on our planet, a new study has found. Researchers ...More

The recent media revelation that the earth’s average atmospheric temperature has hardly budged for the last 17 years has been known to, and debated within, the global scientific community for some t ...More

Last week, the American chemicals and biotech giant Monsanto announced that it would acquire a company called the Climate Corporation for $930 million. Given Monsanto's controversial image in India, s ...More

The September 27 Manmohan Singh-Obama meeting made some incremental moves, but the India-U.S. relationship needs more energy and stronger economies Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s White House visi ...More

New York, Oct. 6: The next time you fly to Europe or beyond the Continent into America, you may never know how much you saved. But it will certainly be a windfall, running into thousands of rupees per ...More

Harvard Business School will host an executive education programme called “Leadership and Corporate Accountability, India� from November 18-21, 2013, at the HBS style classroom at Taj Lands’ End ...More

Canara Bank has bagged the Golden Peacock Award for excellence in corporate governance 2013, presented by Institute of Directors, India. The award was received by R K Dubey, Chairman and Managing Dire ...More

“Climate change is for real,” says Sunita Narain, the Director-General of the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). “The world needs to cut emissions drastically. South Asia is the ...More

The final leg of the ICAF (India Central Asia Foundation) car rally takes us through some of the stunning cities of Uzbekistan – Samarqand, Bukhara and Khiva and through the unending expanse of the Ki ...More

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is in the process of putting out its fifth series of assessment reports. There are three components in this series. The report on the first component - sc ...More

Compared to the heady days in 2007 when US climate campaigner Al Gore and the UN's panel of climate scientists shared the Nobel Peace Prize, the risks of global warming may be greater but the stars pr ...More

Tourists shoot photographs of flowers on Kaas plateau, 22 km from Satara. Gone are the days when these flowers dominated the landscape with their colours. Experts blame human interference for the visi ...More

A man from one of the lowest-lying nations on Earth is trying to convince New Zealand judges that he's a refugee—suffering not from persecution, but climate change. The 37-year-old and his wife left ...More

The fifth IPCC report should have silenced climate change sceptics. If you give the doubters an inch, they will take a mile. And so, once again, climate sceptics have had a field day after the releas ...More

Investing in large-scale industrial fishing, building bigger boats, and giving subsidies for pursuing deep sea fishing would be a waste of resources for India (or any other country for that matter) as ...More

LONDON: Britain's Daily Mail newspaper will tell you that many things you eat can give you cancer, global warming is probably bunk and the British way of life is under threat from pernicious Eurocrats ...More

Sir Bob Geldof believes that the world will end in 2030 because of the effects of climate change. The musician-turned-activist told a group of youngsters at a summit in Johannesburg, South Africa tha ...More

The move to resume the functioning of a granite quarry under police protection on the environmentally sensitive Chembanmudy hills in Ranni taluk, disregarding the denial of licence by the grama pancha ...More