LONDON: Predictions that 2013 would see an upsurge in solar activity and geomagnetic storms disrupting power grids and communications systems have proved to be a false alarm. Instead, the current peak ...More

NEW DELHI: Brazil, South Africa, India and China, called the BASIC countries, appear to have moderated their opposition to discussions on phasing out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) as refrigerants. HFCs ...More

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), whose findings have been controversial, will make its biggest admission this month — it was wrong on the extent of global warming by end of this c ...More

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama's plans to curb the gases blamed for global warming are heading to their first test, a House hearing in which administration officials make their case before skept ...More

New Delhi: The environment ministry will not provide project clearances in eight important but critically polluted industrial areas in the country, a ban that is likely to hurt further corporate inv ...More

KOLKATA: An Indian-origin scientist, who proved how cutting emissions of "black carbon" or soot can significantly lessen the impact of climate change, has been selected for the United Nation's top env ...More

Throughout their lives, blue whales accumulate layers of wax in the ear canal that form a plug, almost a foot long, and which remain permanently in place until they die. Scientists from Texas have ana ...More

NEW DELHI: Monsoon rainfall, crucial for food production in India, is expected to intensify in the future and the rainy season is likely to be longer, according to the draft report by the Intergovernm ...More

International leaders are failing in their fight against global warming, one of the United Nations' top climate officials said today, appealing directly to the world's voters to pressure their politic ...More

NEW DELHI: Delaying action to tackle climate change raises the cost of reducing emissions and makes it tougher to garner political will and public support for the purpose, a study has shown. In th ...More

Climate change, rather than humans, may have been responsible for driving the woolly mammoth to extinction, according to a new study. The study by British and Swedish researchers analysed DNA sampl ...More

Tamil Nadu is looking at ways to tap the treated wastewater for its irrigation system, said a climate change expert on Monday. Speaking during a media workshop on climate change and its impact on a ...More

More than three decades ago, in a very important international scientific conference on global soil management in Hamburg, Germany, to which I was invited as a key speaker in the opening session, I re ...More

NEW DELHI: Climate scientists are more certain that ever before that global warming is being caused by human activities, particularly the burning of fossil fuels. A leaked draft of the first of thre ...More

Can one be any more supportive of the G20 Summit agenda of September 2013? After all, everyone demands sustainable, inclusive, and balanced growth. And everyone demands creation of millions of jobs wo ...More

INDORE: A three-day youth conference on climate change was organized at School of Journalism and Mass Communication which concluded on Sunday at Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya (DAVV). Addressing the y ...More

Thirty km south-west of Colombo port, the S.S Worcestershire lies some 60 m deep. It is one of an estimated 200 wrecks that garland the island of Sri Lanka. Fascinated by its history, eager to rise to ...More

Hyderabad city lad, K Revanth Rao Gopalaswamy has been selected into the ten day workshop on climate change organised by the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee and University of Jammu, scheduled ...More

California Gov. Jerry Brown and China's top climate negotiator on Friday signed the first agreement between a U.S. state and China that seeks greater cooperation on clean energy technologies and resea ...More

Ever since data released earlier this year showed that in the past 15 years, global average temperatures had not risen as fast they had earlier, there has been much hue and cry. Climate change sceptic ...More