The proportion of UK beaches classed as "excellent" for the quality of their bathing water has fallen to its lowest level since 2000, new figures show. The number plummeted from 82.8% in 2011 to 58.2% ...More

Prince Charles has warned that criminal gangs are turning to animal poaching, an unprecedented slaughter of species that can only be stopped by waging war on the perpetrators, in the latest of a serie ...More

Kochi: The city should be declared the ‘fisheries valley of the country’ said Council of Scientific and Industrial Research scientist V. Prakash who is also a Shanthi Swarup Bhatnagar award winner. H ...More

Payments to help householders switch from heating their homes with oil to greener systems such as biomass boilers and solar thermal will double in most cases, the government is to announce on Monday. ...More

A large majority of Indians (83%) consider India-US relations to be strong, with 38% describing this relationship as 'very strong'. However, a substantial minority (31%) of Indians consider the Unite ...More

Finding the climate sensitivity number is the holy grail of climate science. Several recent papers have offered best estimates for climate sensitivity that are below 4 degrees F, rather than the previ ...More

Manish Sabharwal Even India's poor now feel their rights as consumers are higher than as citizens. India is now banging against the limits of a flailing state My parents retired to live in Kanpur, ...More

LONDON: Short, sharp fluctuations in the Earth's climate throughout the last ice age may have stopped trees from establishing themselves in Europe and northern Asia, a new study has found. Scientis ...More

Climate change has the potential to gravely damage the coastal economy of the Kerala, said B Madhusoodana Kurup, vice chancellor of the Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS). Speaki ...More

BEIJING: Scientists from China have obtained three ice cores from Mount Everest with the aim to understand more about climate change, an expedition leader said on Monday. During the expedition that ...More

BHUBANESWAR: Lack of funds and shortage of staff are major challenges for the Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) to take up new research work, said vice-chancellor M R Kar here on ...More

Tomorrow is International Day for Biodiversity. Geeta Padmanabhan suggests what we can do to protect our planet Whenever Savithri, a resident of south Chennai lifts a drink of water she sends a sile ...More

Some of the most extreme predictions of global warming are unlikely to materialise, new scientific research has suggested, but the world is still likely to be in for a temperature rise of double that ...More

Ananth Krishnan Chinese Premier Li Keqiang conveyed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during their meeting on Sunday that he wanted his three-day visit to India to “show the whole world” that India-Ch ...More

The Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB) has joined hands with Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) for a project to restore the ecology of the Cardamom Hill Reserve (CHR) in Idukki, a region blight ...More

BANGALORE: India's tigers, also known as Bengal tigers, have lost 93% of genetic variation from that of their ancestors, despite their numbers having risen the recent years, says a research report in ...More

To ensure sustainable growth, green tax in India is a mixture of incentives and, of late, a rise in penalties. The economist Kenneth Boulding once warned that anyone who believes exponential growth c ...More

VISAKHAPATNAM: Coastal Andhra Pradesh and the surrounding areas are losing their lure for migratory birds, with the number of avian visitors falling by 20% over the last decade, according to ornitholo ...More

The glaciers of Mount Everest have lost 13% of their mass during the past 50 years, according to a new study. Since the 1960s smaller glaciers (less than one square kilometer) have shrunken by a whopp ...More

With no long-term planning and policy reforms, the country’s burgeoning waste management problem is set to become a health and environmental crisis In 2012, for the first time in its history, India ...More