KOLKATA: Monsoon depressions over Bay of Bengal are showing a decreasing trend, resulting in a substantial drop in rainfall across south Bengal and the Odisha coast, weather scientists observed at a S ...More

The reason why successive climate control conferences have failed is well known. The advanced countries, based mainly in the West, want the developing countries to go slow on their industrial projects ...More

Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission has failed to appreciate the country’s solar potential as envisaged in national policy on climate change, according to K. Sivadasan, researcher and renewable ...More

WASHINGTON: The US government has announced a system to limit carbon emissions from new US power plants, marking the first time Washington attempting to control the proliferation of greenhouse gases. ...More

BANGALORE: The city has this year received heavy rain in a non-monsoon period, a first in 25 years. Weather experts predict that the whole of India will experience what Bangalore has heavy to very hea ...More

BANGALORE: The city has this year received heavy rain in a non-monsoon period, a first in 25 years. Weather experts predict that the whole of India will experience what Bangalore has: heavy to very he ...More

The lucrative quarry business in Kerala may soon have to pay for the damage caused to the environment by its operations. The last meeting of the State Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC) held here on ...More

Earth will remain habitable for at least another 1.75 billion years, a new study suggests. After this point, our planet will be in the 'hot zone' of the Sun, with temperatures so high that the seas ...More

A status report on the pollution level in the Kalingarayan canal would be readied by this year-end by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and Norway-based BioForsk that are operating a collaborativ ...More

A status report on the pollution level in the Kalingarayan canal would be readied by this year-end by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and Norway-based BioForsk that are operating a collaborativ ...More

DHARWAD: The University of Agricultural Sciences in Dharwad has geared up to host the four-day Krishi Mela-2013 from Saturday. The sprawling campus is decked up with stalls and exhibition halls. Over ...More

Climate deniers are rejoicing over the abolition of Australia’s Climate Commission, along with the sacking of its commissioner, Professor Tim Flannery. New Prime Minister Tony Abbott wasted no time i ...More

A leading US environmental action group has outlined three key areas for India US collaboration: energy efficiency, growing solar energy markets, and preparing communities to sustain the impacts of cl ...More

Over the past 23 years, UN scientists have issued progressively stronger assertions about climate change. They have moved from a sketchy warning that heat-trapping carbon gases emitted by fossi ...More

STOCKHOLM: Scientists working on a landmark UN report on climate change are struggling to explain why global warming appears to have slowed down in the past 15 years even though greenhouse gas emissio ...More

Earth will remain habitable for at least another 1.75 billion years, a new study suggests. After this point, our planet will be in the “hot zone� of the Sun, with temperatures so high that the se ...More

The end of the world is coming - but not for a while yet. That's according to a new study indicating that we have 1.75 billion years left until Mother Earth gives up the ghost. Researchers from th ...More

STOCKHOLM: Scientists working on a landmark UN report on climate change are struggling to explain why global warming appears to have slowed down in the past 15 years even though greenhouse gas emissio ...More

Climate change has spawned debate as well as initiatives such as planting saplings, cultivating kitchen gardens, household energy conservation and so on. At the grassroots level, a few farmers are ...More

India has opposed proposals to sign a piecemeal global climate treaty with greenhouse gas reduction targets being decided first in 2015 and decisions on technology and finance adaptation being segrega ...More