It’s all downhill with climate change, improper solid waste management affecting health: poll More than half of Bangaloreans admit to a perceived change in the city’s climate, and a majority feels im ...More

Food security is a complex socio-economic issue, intricately linked to human health and sustainable economic development. Historically, large sections of the world’s population continued to experience ...More

MUMBAI: Marginal farmers in Maharashtra are battling another cruel drought. In Vidarbha, heat waves and droughts have become an annual feature. It doesn't have to be so. Absence of irrigation and effi ...More

When China — along with Japan, South Korea, Singapore, India, and Italy — was granted permanent observer status in the Arctic Council last month, it left many experts wondering whether a paradigm shif ...More

Natural-resource based businesses should share benefits with all stakeholders. Water and biodiversity play a significant role in sustaining human life and ensuring welfare. They are essential for se ...More

"The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future" (Oxford University Press), by Michael Levi In recent years, the seemingly dry subjects of oil and gas drilling and renewable ...More

The first week of June means not just monsoon to the Social Forestry Wing of the Kerala Forest and Wildlife Department. It also is the time when it launches the year’s ‘Haritha Keralam’ programme on J ...More

NEW DELHI: India's economic development has led to worsening of air quality in major Indian cities, according to a new study published here today. The survey was carried out by The Energy and Reso ...More

Negotiators today launched a new round of UN climate talks to warnings that a newly breached threshold was a wakeup call to tackle surging carbon emissions. The 12-day talks under the UN Framework ...More

NEW DELHI, 3 JUNE: India's six major metro cities have indicated that the environment has deteriorated over the past five years; air and water quality, waste management, green cover and climate change ...More

The Earth is now in uncharted territory as atmospheric carbon dioxide has shot past the 400 ppm mark. There is no more room for manoeuvre When Brian Lara scored a scintillating 400 not out in Antigua ...More

JOHANNESBURG: India has failed to meet its commitments towards tackling climate change mainly due to bureaucratic hurdles, while China, the world's biggest polluter, has a better record, an expert sai ...More

Teri assessed residents’ perceptions, behaviour, awareness, and opinions towards the environment New Delhi: Residents of Delhi, Hyderabad and Kolkata perceived a deterioration in air quality in thei ...More

Big cities, barring Chennai, see a fall in groundwater; Number of trees, birds and animals decline. How fresh is the air in your city? Or does it pose a health hazard? Air quality in the country’s to ...More

International airlines have agreed for the first time to global curbs on their greenhouse gas emissions – but fell well short of the measures to combat climate change that green campaigners had demand ...More

NEW DELHI, 3 JUNE: India's six major metro cities have indicated that the environment has deteriorated over the past five years; air and water quality, waste management, green cover and climate change ...More

The past three months this year have been by far the hottest months Puneites have experienced, with mercury crossing the 40 degree Celsius mark more than once and the pre-monsoon showers almost giving ...More

Tata Power said its 50.4-MW wind power project at Gadag in Karnataka has been registered under the clean development mechanism (CDM) programme by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Cha ...More

By raising frivolous objections to the appointment of noted farm scientist R S Paroda to the Technical Expert Committee (TEC), which was constituted by the Supreme Court to look into genetically modif ...More

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture has invited public comments on Agriculture Biosecurity Bill, 2013 that provides for the establishment of an integrated national biosecurity system, ...More