The Uttarakhand tragedy is the face of climate change in India. Start expecting severe weather occurrences, very high or low, unseasonal temperatures and precipitation and rising sea levels. Just thi ...More

Raising a red flag against the developmental activities undertaken in the state, an expert report suggests that 18 percent of the forest area in the state would be vulnerable by 2030. According to a ...More

Climate change is back on the US political agenda. Can India refocus its own efforts? In a major speech last month, US President Barack Obama acknowledged climate change as a major challenge that mu ...More

If the current pace of poverty reduction in India continues, the number of poor in the country in 2015 would be half of what it was in 1990, a UN report has said. The latest report on the progress m ...More

The deathly sludge that entombed most of Kedarnath town in just 24 hours on the evening of June 16 and on June 17 morning may have just changed life in the Indian Himalayas forever. Survivors say they ...More

The Himalayas are one of the most fragile ecosystems on earth. However, for centuries, the ecosystem, fragile as it is, has coped with natural risks. But today, the story is different, with human in ...More

Belonging to a place known as the country’s energy hub owing to the capability it has to manufacture thermal power generation equipment catering to 75 per cent of electricity requirements in the count ...More

A 17-year-old tribal student from a private Odisha institute has been selected by the United Nations to participate in the July 12 "Malala Day" youth session at the UN headquarters in New York, the in ...More

All media attention may have focused on Curiosity ever since the $2.5 billion rover landed on Mars in August 2012, but its older and more modest cousin Opportunity continues to defy expectations. In ...More

China is ready to discuss strengthening cybersecurity with U.S. officials at a high-level forum next week and wants Washington to help settle territorial disputes in East Asia, officials said Frid ...More

The immediate aftermath of a disaster almost always brings out angry responses. The tragic incident in Uttarakhand is no exception. Many experts, who belong to the "I told you so" camp, have come out ...More

A dynamic leader of mankind who has combined in himself the introspection of a man of learning and the boldness of a man of action,” says a website dedicated to foreign minister Salman Khurshid. The U ...More

New Delhi: The last decade was the warmest in 160 years and was witness to many unprecedented climatic and weather extremes, a World Meteorological Organization report said. The report mentioned cli ...More

NEW YORK: Statue of Liberty, a veritable symbol of America, was reopened to the public for the first time since superstorm Sandy hit the island last year. The reopening of Statue of Liberty and Li ...More

United Nations, July 4: The world experienced unprecedented high-impact climate extremes between 2001 and 2010, and more national temperature records were broken during the period compared to any ...More

They are just barriers to trade. ‘Environment-conscious’ Western garment consumers are buying into a myth. If extreme weather events like the Uttarakhand cloudburst are a result of West-induced clim ...More

WELLINGTON: The Red Cross has launched a light-hearted education campaign aimed at those it describes as most vulnerable to climate change: Pacific islanders living on low-lying atolls threatened by r ...More

At any public meeting on the environment, there’s one question that almost always came up. It is a variation of ‘Why will no one talk about population?’ As a result, population is discussed endlessly ...More

Is the monsoon current emanating from the Bay of Bengal shifting its position towards central India, causing more rains over Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, and Andhra Pradesh, and leaving less ...More

It is only those who have visited Uttarakhand, experienced the beauty, tranquillity and peace of the hills, seen the majesty of the Himalayas and glory of the Ganga, felt spirituality and bliss – only ...More