The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nation’s body, is the most comprehensive and definitive study of global warming and its consequences on life on eart ...More

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has given us a good basis for international and national action. The world's top climate scientists and a handful of diplomats have approved a summ ...More

A recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change affirmed man-made global warming is happening, rather rapidly, notwithstanding a recent drop in the rate of temperature increase. Clo ...More

Wellington - A man from one of the lowest- lying nations on Earth is trying to convince New Zealand judges that he’s arefugee — suffering not from persecution, but from climate change. The 37- ...More

Inaugurating the three-day international conference ECOCASD 2013 here on Thursday, noted aquaculture and fisheries scientist from USA, Claude E Boyd sent a warning note saying the population around th ...More

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The three-day ECOCASD 2013 International Conference was inaugurated by US environmental scientist Dr Claude E Boyd here on Thursday. In his inaugural address he said that the ...More

New Delhi, Oct. 3: Madhukar Pai, a doctor and epidemiologist in Canada, first suspected something was wrong when he received invitations to join the editorial boards of journals on climate change, pla ...More

LUDHIANA: After Wednesday showers, which came as a happy surprise, city residents could expect more rain in the coming days, say the officials of the School of Climate Change and Agricultural Meteorol ...More

A noted US environment scientist Thursday stressed the need for exercising prudence in the use of natural resources warning that while populations grow, natural resources do not. Claude E. Boyd, note ...More

New Delhi, Oct. 3: An Indian envoy summoned in protest, buffeted by public reprimands and thinly veiled warnings — this isn’t Islamabad posturing against New Delhi. This is the tiny island nation ...More

Seated in her mud house, Rita Kamila speaks with confidence about the benefits of integrated farming, organic food, vermi-composting and biogas. The proof is in the lush greenery surrounding the house ...More

Bengaluru: In a first, Nasa and Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) will join forces to manufacture and launch an all-weather satellite to support disaster management, understanding movement of ...More

NEW DELHI: In what may be a significant step to turn states aggressively to clean energy sources, the Union ministry of new and renewable energy has written to the power ministry suggesting it to make ...More

VISAKHAPATNAM: Size does matter for the fisherfolk of Vizag. Over the last few years, there has been a rise in the quantity of small fish being caught which has hit profits as larger catch fetches a b ...More

Twenty-one Nobel laureates including South African anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu have written to European Union leaders urging them to implement a law that would label oil from tar sands as d ...More

The 37-year-old, who has sought asylum, is from the Pacific island nation of Kiribati, which could become uninhabitable in 30 to 60 years because of rising sea levels. Wellington A man from one of ...More

Hakan Bahceci has been elected the Chairperson of the Private Sector Mechanism (PSM) at the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in Rome. He is CEO of Dubai-headquartered Hakan Agro Group with ...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 ...More

We can avoid the worst effects of climate change, say a team of Imperial College energy engineers in a recent study, and it will only cost US$2 trillion a year, at most. This sounds an unfeasibly larg ...More

When she wrote recently that “big green groups” are doing more harm than good when it comes to saving the planet, Naomi Klein was was right to be concerned. In recent years the environmental agenda ...More