Facts, figures and theory combine into a tale of trekkers who sought solitude and success at the mountain-top There is certainly much more to mountaineering than a mere act of scrambling up rocks, ...More

PANAJI: A Davis field weather station for compilation of data in the Sahyadris was set up by the Mhadei research centre in its premises recently. The station in the state's remote hinterland region a ...More

Green campaigners and industry experts have hit out at the government's plans to block new EU-wide renewable energy targets, which they say are essential to cutting greenhouse gas emissions and creati ...More

MUMBAI: In time of climate change rising sea levels and increasing coastal erosion, mangroves and the coastal ecosystems that protect the land from ingress of sea water and possible tsunamis, have gai ...More

LUDHIANA: The Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has been allotted a research project "Groundwater Resource Management to Mitigate the Impact of Climate Change in Punjab and Haryana", under the spon ...More

Humans are a key feature of the global water system, influencing prodigious quantities of water: stored in reservoirs, taken from rivers and groundwater and lost in various ways. Leading water scient ...More

The desert locust, the most notorious of about a dozen locust species for its ability to rapidly multiply and travel long distances, threatens an area of 32 million square kilometres, stretching acros ...More

The granting of observer status to India in the Arctic Council is a recognition of the country’s technological and economic status. Along with India five other countries – China, Japan, South Korea, S ...More

The desert locust, the most notorious of about a dozen locust species for its ability to rapidly multiply and travel long distances, threatens an area of 32 million square kilometres, stretching acros ...More

Congress has voted to shut Barack Obama out of the biggest environmental decision of his presidency – the fate of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline – and claimed the authority to approve the project. ...More

The United Nations designated May 22 as the “International Day for Biological Diversity,” to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues. “Water and Biodiversity” is this year’s theme. ...More

By observing June 9 as Environment Sunday and urging the faithful to stay away from the “eco-sins” of water and air pollution, the Mar Thoma Church is treading a green path. Eco-justice and eco-cent ...More

The green deal, the flagship environmental policy of the UK's coalition government intended to make the country's homes more energy efficient, has received a fresh blow after an influential committee ...More

China has unveiled details of its first pilot carbon-trading programme, which will begin next month in the southern city of Shenzhen. The trading scheme will cover 638 companies responsible for 38% o ...More

The comedian Griff Rhys Jones has accused the government of "random desecration" of the countryside and despoiling "pristine landscapes" through its subsidies to wind turbines and solar power. Respon ...More

Ed Davey, the UK energy secretary, has warned that Scotland could lose billions of pounds in subsidies for renewable energy projects if it voted for independence, putting its green energy revolution a ...More

GENEVA: Pinning the deadly tornado in the US state of Oklahoma on climate change is wrongheaded, even though the world is set to see a rise in high-profile weather disasters due to global warming, the ...More

While many speak of bringing about change, students of Thapar University represent one. Passionate about environmental changes and sustainable energy development, they have initiated a zero garbage s ...More

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin took to Facebook over the weekend to express her skepticism of global warming. Palin argued that global warming was not happening, pointing that it was snowing in A ...More

An unprecedented stocktake of UK wildlife has revealed that most species are struggling and that one in three have halved in number in the past half century. The unique report, based on scientific ana ...More