The climate has not been warming over the past 15 years at rates predicted earlier, the latest report of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to be released September end, is ...More

A swelling population, land use change, unscientific waste disposal, mining of corals, coastal erosion, and unregulated construction are exerting pressure on the Lakshadweep islands, one of the most s ...More

LUCKNOW: Highlighting the UK government's keenness to work in the clean energy sector in India, junior minister in UK government's department of energy and climate change Baroness Verma has said the c ...More

MARGAO: The Science Express-Biodiversity Special (SEBS), a train exhibition held at the Margao railway station since Monday aims at creating awareness on biodiversity of India, climate change and simi ...More

Around the world three billion people have no access to modern cooking fuels. They depend mostly on direct burning of solid biomass for cooking and heating. The smoke from these rudimentary stoves cau ...More

NEW DELHI: Crop pests are spreading to colder parts of the world as climate change warms the world, a new study has revealed. It used published observations of the distribution of 612 crop pests colle ...More

KOLKATA: SP Gon Chaudhuri is not much worried over the cash that a gang of robbers took away from his home on Sunday. What the eminent scientist rues the most is that the goons managed to get away w ...More

Punjab's Minister for revenue, rehabilitation, NRI affairs and non conventional energy, Bikram Singh Majithia, on Monday said the state government is working out an action plan to ward off adverse imp ...More

KOLKATA: Teenager Sujash Goenka got a unique birthday gift from his dad this monsoon -- a geo-tagged image of apple tree saplings planted in his name in a far-off Uttarakhand village. Instead of thro ...More

Hyderabad, Sept. 30: S. Satapathy, Director–Climate Change, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India, urged CII to lead the industry action on climate change initiatives and part ...More

Cooling waters in the tropical Pacific Ocean appear to be a major factor in dampening global warming in recent years, scientists said on Wednesday. Their work is a big step forward in helping to so ...More

VARANASI: The SAARC Consultation Workshop on 'Implementation of Thimpu Statement on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction' was inaugurated at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) premises on ...More

Three studies, published in Nature Climate Change on August 25, have highlighted the need for more research on how oceans, and ocean fauna, are responding to anthropogenic climate change. The oceans ...More

NAGPUR: Despite a sharp rise in area and production of citrus in northeastern hill (NEH) region in seven years (2005-12), there has been huge decline in citrus orchards in this region due to climate c ...More

Climate change could bring about the greening of Greenland by the end of the century, scientists predict. Today only four indigenous tree species grow on the island, confined to small areas in the so ...More

MUMBAI: The state coastal authority has given the go-ahead for the demolition of the existing bridge over Mithi river at Kurla CST and building a wider bridge. The BMC had proposed a new bridge t ...More

Bio-based polyamides: India, the assured raw material supplier? In recent time there has been an increased focus on manufacturing PA using castor oil route, since it offers various advantages over th ...More

PARIS: Oceans that grow more acidic through Man's fossil fuel burning emissions, can amplify global warming by releasing less of a gas that helps shield Earth from radiation, a study said today. ...More

PARIS: A leaden cloak of responsibility lies on the shoulders of UN scientists as they put the final touches to the first volume of a massive report that will give the world the most detailed pic ...More

People blame climate change on many factors — melting glaciers — for instance. Yet, I’ve never heard anyone hold herself accountable. Studying Sai Baba’s teachings in the volumes, Sathya ...More