SYDNEY: Most fossil fuels must remain in the ground because burning them will unleash changes which will "challenge the existence of our society", a new Australian government agency report warned Mond ...More

US spokesmen have described the recent summit between Chinese president Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Barack Obama, which included over eight hours of ‘informal’ meetings, as “unique” and “enormou ...More

Against the backdrop of the severe drought in several parts of the state prior to this monsoon, Maharashtra Government is preparing a water policy on the lines of the National Water Policy. The Natio ...More

There is no denying that each drop of water must be conserved. In this light, the ongoing campaign on FM radio in the Capital on water conservation deserves appreciation. Using multiple celebrity voic ...More

PANAJI: Arrivals of tourists rose by 4% during the just-concluded season and even winged visitors left the bird watchers enthralled, but flippered guests faced hostile conditions and only a few surf ...More

In an Open Page article (The Hindu, November 25, 2012), I wrote about the looming environmental crisis facing our planet. This article is prompted by my reading of the potent (and depressing) book Req ...More

Jorhat, June 13: The Tea Board of India is all set to introduce a set of parameters that will define the entire gamut of operations of the tea industry, right from production to certification to labou ...More

The left-over food in the plates at a five-star hotel in Delhi commemorating World Environment Day - with the global theme of 'Think, Eat and Save' this year - had only one message, such events are ...More

BEAUMONT — As the Neches River flows south toward a string of oil refineries and manufacturing plants in Southeast Texas, it winds through an area so ecologically diverse that the National Park Servic ...More

A drastic decline in the live coral cover in Lakshadweep has been reported, causing serious concern among researchers and naturalists. K. Venkataraman, Director, Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), tol ...More

MELBOURNE: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Thursday met former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in Perth and discussed issues related to the climate change. The meeting between ...More

CHICAGO: Hillary Rodham Clinton intends to work in the nonprofit world on issues like improving early childhood education, promoting the rights of women and girls, and finding ways to improve the econ ...More

WASHINGTON: One of the big goals of President Barack Obama's upcoming trip to Europe may be in jeopardy, with French objections threatening to hold up the launch of negotiations on a sweeping US-Europ ...More

Kolkata, Jun 14: Raising serious public health concerns, a new survey has found that around 64 per cent of the women living in the climate change-hit islands of Sundarbans suffer from anaemia. T ...More

Bonn: The planet is on track to warm by four degrees Celsius by the year 2100, if the global community fails to act on climate change, a new report by Climate Action Tracker has said. "Recent emiss ...More

she considers another White House bid, Hillary Rodham Clinton intends to work in the nonprofit world on issues like improving early childhood education, promoting the rights of women and girls, and ...More

NEW DELHI: They are afraid their homeland may disappear one day. Rising sea levels are pushing communities in Sunderbans to the edge and Mohammad Shahade Firdous and Fatema Sultana from Bangladesh are ...More

When almost half the state was reeling under severe water shortage, Kasarwadi in Jalna district and Kachner in Aurangabad district were self sufficient. This oasis in drought-hit Marathwada was poss ...More

Norway today said it was committed to a close cooperation with India to combat and mitigate climate change in the Arctic as also globally. It said understanding climate change in the Arctic will h ...More

GUWAHATI: Flood and erosion in Assam have left many displaced, who have lost their land and property over the past decade. Teturam Mili (40), once a self-sufficient farmer, is no longer able to cul ...More