WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama declared the debate over climate change and its causes obsolete on Tuesday as he announced a wide-ranging plan to tackle pollution and prepare communities for global ...More

Carbon emission, popularly known as ‘greenhouse gas emission’, is on the rise in the atmosphere, contributing to global warming. As recent studies have found, modern agricultural practices remain the ...More

Appealing for courageous action "before it's too late", President Barack Obama launched a major second-term drive on Tuesday to combat climate change and secure a safer planet, bypassing Congress as ...More

The flash floods in Uttarakhand produced a strange show on TV. It began intriguingly. As the catastrophe struck, Delhi merely treated it as a distant background, a meteorological overture to the polit ...More

An advanced facility to help speed up development and selection of crop varieties, which are tolerant to drought, flood and heat in a more precise way, is being set up at the Central Research Institut ...More

US secretary of state John Kerry finally arrived in India on June 23, four and a half months after assuming office, for the fourth India-US strategic dialogue. From the euphoria of the last decade thi ...More

While the focus is on pilgrims, nobody is talking about the fate of boys and men who came from their villages in the Mandakini valley to earn during the yatri season It is one week since Uttarakhand’ ...More

Climate change is threatening to impact the bottomline of the organised tea industry in India, with unprecedented high temperatures in Assam and excessive rainfall in Darjeeling impacting the prized c ...More

With India facing an economic slowdown, a sharp decline in the value of rupee and declining investment sentiment abroad, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma is currently on a globe trotting sp ...More

New Delhi: India deployed four unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on Monday to scan areas that rescue and relief workers have not been able to reach in the flood-hit Himalayan foothills in Uttarakhand in ...More

NEW DELHI, 24 JUNE: The sheen on India-USA relations seems to be ebbing. The ongoing visit of US Secretary of State, Mr John Kerry, lacked the buzz that the visit of Ms Hillary Clinton generated last ...More

MUMBAI: The state government may declare mangroves as "reserved forests". Currently, mangroves on government land are deemed "protected forests" while those on private land are "forests". A senior off ...More

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Monday said precious lives could have been saved in Uttarakhand had the weather office made precise forecasts. “They [India Meteorological Depart ...More

The study also acknowledged that socio-economic factors, like a growing number of homes for the wealthy built in coastal areas and flood plains, drive up insurance costs Climate change is creating mo ...More

NEW DELHI: Cautioning that the Uttarakhand disaster may be a warning towards "extreme weather", National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) vice-chairman M Shashidhar Reddy on Monday said detailed a ...More

Islamabad, June 24 (IANS) Pakistan must closely watch for weather systems approaching the country that may cause a disaster situation, warned a Pakistani daily following the calamity in India's mounta ...More

LONDON: Scientists have found that the pattern of the Indian monsoon will change under global warming in the future. Computer simulations with a comprehensive set of 20 state-of-the-art climate mo ...More

MUMBAI: The state government may declare mangroves as "reserved forests". Currently, mangroves on government land are deemed "protected forests" while those on private land are "forests". A senior off ...More

NEW DELHI: On his first visit to India as the US secretary of state, John Kerry stressed on the imperative for the two countries to work together on issues that encompass "shared planet, intertwined e ...More

VISAKHAPATNAM: "India needs to develop the capability for a decade-long climate forecast. It should also come up with crop simulation and land sustainability models," said Shailesh Nayak, secretary, U ...More