Key information about the progress of many of the UK government's most costly projects is being withheld by the energy department, the Guardian has found. In contrast to all other government departme ...More

The UK environment secretary is to lobby the EU to relax strict restrictions on growing GM crops for human consumption for fears of being "left behind", it emerged on Wednesday. In a speech due to be ...More

India is expected to emerge as an economically prosperous country with the majority of our citizens in the age group below 40 by 2020. We dream of an inclusive society where the bulk of the population ...More

Torrential rains and floods have devastated large parts of central Europe last week and are threatening to wreak havoc in more areas. A number of countries have been affected badly by the unexpecte ...More

Kerala would soon up its green quotient if the emerging trend for planting saplings is any indication. An unprecedented fad for planting saplings was visible in the State since the beginning of the m ...More

NEW DELHI: India has made it clear that it will not support a global climate change regime that simply links commitment to reduce carbon emissions to a country's financial resources. At the latest rou ...More

CHENNAI: Blame it on urbanization or climate change, a compilation of weather data over the years proves what Chennaiites have always known - that the city is getting hotter. But, believe it or not, i ...More

A team of scientists from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) will carry out a comprehensive study of the status of the groundwater table in the area between Gomti and Sai rivers across six districts of th ...More

AHMEDABAD: Animal husbandry and fisheries minister of Bihar Giriraj Sinh met Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday. Giriraj Sinh, who came Gandhinagar to take part in national seminar on ...More

Sir Robert Smith has been appointed as temporary chair of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee, after Tim Yeo stepped down pending an investigation into allegations he breached parliamentary ...More

STOCKHOLM: The world's energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose 1.4 per cent in 2012 to a record high of 31.6 billion tons, even though the US posted its lowest emissions since the mid-1990s, the ...More

An offshoot of President Obama’s 2012 political campaign has published a list of politicians — more or less a catalog of Republican lawmakers — who have denied or expressed skepticism about man-made c ...More

India, like major economies such as China, the US, European Union, Japan, will need to strengthen its energy efficiency policy, push for clean coal technologies, and reduce subsidies on fossil fuels, ...More

Rich coastal provinces of China are outsourcing their greenhouse gas emissions by importing goods from less developed provinces, according to scientists. The practice makes it far less likely that Chi ...More

Amid global concerns over climate change, nearly 100 experts from India have joined hands with their counterparts from countries like the US, UK and France to study the impact of air pollution and oth ...More

The projections were made based on the output of 11 existing climate models and its own program designed to forecast river inundation. A University of Tokyo study has warned that the unchecked progre ...More

The leaders of the United States and China appear to have started off on friendly terms during a weekend together in the California sun, but it remains to be seen if good vibes can bridge deep gaps. ...More

India has joined hands with a leading Canadian University to create a new chair on India Studies in this country to study pressing issues like climate change, sustainable development, food and water s ...More

The hardship of hunger abounds amid the stone homes and teepee-like huts in the mountains along Haiti's southern coast. The hair on broomstick-thin children has turned patchy and orangish, their s ...More

Dr Ravindra Mehta, Consultant Pulmonologist and Chief of Critical Care, Apollo Hospitals said, “There is an increase in asthma and allergic tendencies in the city owing to the increase in population a ...More