Have you ever seen a Blue Tiger? And no, we’re not talking about those unproven reports of that mystery cat that Methodist missionary Harry Caldwell claimed to have sighted in China in the early 1900s ...More

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama says he'll unveil a national plan to combat climate change in a speech on Tuesday. Obama says in an online video that he'll lay out his vision for reducing carbon p ...More

NASHIK: The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) is planning to measure the carbon footprint of the city in a bid to tackle problems related to climate change. Municipal commissioner Sanjay Khandare on ...More

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will unveil a comprehensive plan on Tuesday to combat climate change and lead global efforts to fight it. Obama used Twitter - the micro blogging site - to ann ...More

CHENNAI: Is there a word for 'roadkill' (remains of an animal killed on the road by a motor vehicle) in Tamil? No. However, there are a number of words in Tamil related to animals and their environmen ...More

Washington, June 23: US President Barack Obama will unveil a comprehensive plan to deal with climate change that would include new measures to reduce carbon pollution and lead global efforts to fi ...More

“I would bunk school to be in the bagicha (garden) with my grandfather,� says Ambar, a wide grin spreading across his weather-beaten high cheek-boned face and mischief dancing in his narrow eyes ...More

In 1673 Gerald Aungier, one of the first governors of Bombay made an earnest appeal to the Court of Directors asking them to allow filling up breaches and building a city of what became Bombay and lat ...More

Catastrophic flash floods in Uttarakhand have taken the conflict between economic growth and ecological conservation to a new pitch. Uttarakhand chief minister Vijay Bahuguna is making hapless attemp ...More

NEW DELHI: The catastrophic rainfall in Uttarakhand was most likely a climate change event as it is in keeping with a pattern of increasing incidents of extreme weather events that often cause phe ...More

NEW DELHI: The catastrophic rainfall in Uttarakhand was most likely a climate change event as it is in keeping with a pattern of increasing incidents of extreme weather events that often cause pheno ...More

In seven years since 2005, Uttarkashi had three major flash floods. In 27 years before 2005, it had one — in 1978. What happened after 2005 was wanton development — hydroelectric (hydel) power p ...More

Climate change experts are ringing alarm bells, even as North India reels under a major natural disaster that has links to global warming. Raman Sukumar, professor at the Centre for Ecological Scienc ...More

A large section of our country’s population, nearly 75 per cent of rural and 22 per cent of urban households, still uses biomass for daily cooking. An estimated 80 per cent of the residential energy ...More

LONDON: The future of the private sector will increasingly hinge on the ability of businesses to adapt to the world's rapidly changing environment, according to a UN report. The report titled "GEO-5 ...More

NEW DELHI: The catastrophic rainfall in Uttarakhand was most likely a climate change event as it is in keeping with a pattern of increasing incidents of extreme weather events that often cause phenome ...More

NEW DELHI: The massive loss of human life and damage to property this year due to the flash floods in Uttarakhand owe to the unfortunate coincidence that the early monsoon burst came during the peak p ...More

NEW DELHI: The heavier than usual rainfall in Uttarakhand is part of the extreme weather events that the climate change scientists predict will become the new "normal" if governments don't act. "This ...More

WASHINGTON: The US Secretary of State John Kerry would discuss a broad range of issues during his trip to India next week. Kerry will lead a high powered American delegation to co-chair the fourth ...More

Prof ManoranjanKar was appointed the vice-chancellor of Orissa University of Technology (OUAT) in March this year, following the controversial departure of his predecessor, D P Ray. Kar, who has serve ...More