New Delhi should stop its flip-flops and adopt a coherent policy in its negotiations on greenhouse gas emissions If the great Scott Fitzgerald were to have walked into the grand plenary hall of the D ...More

KOCHI: Kochi corporation has decided to appoint International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) to prepare a detailed project report (DPR) for executing the solar city project. The l ...More

Ranchi, June 6: The ethical hue and cry on World Environment Day has come and gone, but state foresters are waiting in vain for the Centre’s Green India Mission (GIM) to emerge from the cold storage a ...More

HYDERABAD: Even as the debate on climate change and global warming rages on, several Hyderabadis are convinced that the climate is changing and directly affecting their lives. A survey conducted by ...More

NEW DELHI: At one level the city government is preparing a comprehensive plan to combat climate change and at another, civic society is taking matters in its own hands, calling the government's measur ...More

The other day I mentioned to a fellow journalist that a researcher in the Kumaon region has found that butterflies are pretty good indicators of ground water availability in an ecosystem. "Hah!" he sa ...More

The Centre for Communication and International Linkages (CCIL) of the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) celebrated World Environment Day in association with the Institution of Engineers -India (IEI ...More

SILCHAR, June 6 – Students here were encouraged to plant more saplings and keep their surroundings clean by the officials of the Pollution Control Board, Assam. In a joint initiative with Arjya Sansk ...More

Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the ultra-conservative group funded by the Koch oil billionaires, is launching a series of adverts that target Democratic senators and aim to block action on climate ch ...More

Twenty-one climate change activists were sentenced on Thursday for aggravated trespass after occupying a gas-fired power station last year. Sixteen of the activists were given community service order ...More

2008 – the Kingsnorth six Six Greenpeace campaigners were found not guilty of causing £30,000 of criminal damage to Kingsnorth power station in 2007 after arguing that they were legally justified bec ...More

Residents will be able to stop the construction of windfarms under tough rules that could seriously restrict the growth of onshore wind power generation. New guidance is expected to tell councils tha ...More

The state action plan on climate change is likely to be implemented through the Department of Science, Technology and Environment (DSTE) in coordination with 25 participatory departments. Sources sai ...More

KOCHI: For British cabinet minister for communities and local government Eric Pickles, the story of how a village panchayat in the state revived a river that had become a stream was not simply inspiri ...More

The threat of climate change is looming over Mount Kailash and Mansarovar, considered holy by four religions. A new study predicts that in the Kailash region, temperatures will increase as it will rai ...More

Householders are to be paid at least £100 a year for living near turbines owned by a windfarm developer. RES is pioneering the "local energy discount schemes", which are part of a wider move to give c ...More

VARANASI: In view of the rampant weather change and risk factors involved with it in south Asian countries, researchers at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) are contributing in implementation of the Thim ...More

PARIS: Less than three months after being battered by snow and ice, central Europe now finds itself fighting floods -- and some scientists are pointing the finger at human interference with the climat ...More

Though climate change is a global issue, it has to be addressed locally as real change starts with local initiatives, said British Minister For Communities and Local Government Eric Pickles. He was s ...More

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After three days of heavy rains, the southwest monsoon has weakened in Kerala. Rain lashed only a few places in Kerala and Lakshadweep on Wednesday. Rains are expected to regain mo ...More