LONDON: Britain's biggest coal producer, UK Coal, will be placed in administration and most of its mines and pension liabilities transferred to a state-run pensions agency in a bid to save 2,000 jobs, ...More

Policy level changes are the need of the hour to tackle natural calamities like the flood in Uttarakhand, said Swapan Kumar Dutta, deputy director general (crop science), Indian Council of Agricultura ...More

GENEVA: A freshwater shrimp, an island-dwelling lizard and a pupfish from Arizona have been declared extinct, while nearly 21,000 species are at risk of dying out, an updated "Red List" released on ...More

New Delhi: The disaster in Uttarakhand may have been a result of climate change, worsened by the impact of rampant development projects, say experts. About 900 have died and 3,000 are missing, accord ...More

Talent, money and policy must be harnessed to search for the optimal development-environment balance The tragedy in Uttarakhand cannot be overstated. It is a tragedy of monumental proportions. For m ...More

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd unveiled his new cabinet Monday, filling out key positions left by resigned Julia Gillard supporters. Chris Bowen, already been sworn in as Treasurer, will take t ...More

Capturing the monsoon in the Western Ghats, one of the world's most diverse havens of biodiversity Text and photographs by Kalyan Varma in the Western Ghats, the cycle of life starts with the arriva ...More

Kolkata: Phase I of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu might be commissioned any time now, principal scientific adviser to the government R Chidambaram said today. "Phase I of the nucle ...More

The Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) has offered to help the government in mapping climatic changes in the country to develop a better understanding about the phenomena. "We are ready to help the g ...More

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama touted his new climate change proposal in his weekly address Saturday, calling for Americans to lead the charge against the warming environment. "Those who alrea ...More

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama touted his new climate change proposal in his weekly address Saturday, calling for Americans to lead the charge against the warming environment. "Those who alrea ...More

Sure of victory If insiders in the party are to be believed, the Congress is assured of political gains till Virbhadra Singh is at the helm of affairs in the state. Back in the state capital after a ...More

Five months after its launch, not a single household in the UK has completed the process of making their home more energy efficient under the government's flagship green deal, according to figures rel ...More

The Department for Energy and Climate Change said that 38,259 households have been assessed for Green Deal measures such as a new boiler, solar panels or heat pumps. But only 241 have gone to the ne ...More

Five months after the launch of the government's flagship energy efficiency programme, energy suppliers are still struggling with the IT systems and legal arrangements they need to offer households in ...More

Whatever one's views on the myth that moving the Dhari Devi idol unleashed nature's fury on Kedarnath, the story is a perfect metaphor for the faultlines the tragedy in Uttarakhand exposes. According ...More

The Uttarakhand tragedy was a disaster waiting to happen. Environmental norms and building safety codes were flouted in a mad scramble for development. Deforestation was widespread; hydel projects ign ...More

Carbon emissions may be about to make a return to the climate change policy arena following United States President Barack Obama's speech pledging carbon caps for the US power sector and further suppo ...More

Bangladesh is the world’s eighth most populous country. Its national language, Bengali, ranks sixth in terms of the number of native speakers. It has the second largest Muslim population after Indones ...More

There are few original thinkers. They do not necessarily follow the current fashions and what they write sometimes appears incredible, outrageous, brilliant or even thoughtless. Agree with them or not ...More