Overwhelming response from applicants in applied science: Grotsky The number of Fulbright fellowships offered to applicants from India and scholars from the U.S. coming to the country tripled after ...More

GENEVA: After seeing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere surpass a historic threshold last week, the world should brace for the new peak level to soon become the global annual average, the World M ...More

The World Bank is making a major push to develop large-scale hydropower, something it had all but abandoned a decade ago but now sees as crucial to resolving the tension between economic development a ...More

Tara will soon set sail for the Arctic again. The famous schooner will cast off from Lorient in Brittany on Sunday 19 May for a seven-month expedition via the Northeast Passage along Russia's Arctic c ...More

Atmospheric CO2. An infrared analyser atop the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii is expected to record a daily concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of over 400 ppm, a value not reached at this ...More

Natural disasters ranging from floods to earthquakes forced 32.4 million people to flee their homes worldwide last year, watchdog group the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre said today. Whil ...More

Thiruvananthapuram: Contrary to claims, Kerala has one of the worst-preserved ecology among the Western Ghats states. Planning Commission’s Environment Performance Index has ranked the state 15 in a l ...More

NEW DELHI: More than half of common plants and one third of the animals could see a dramatic decline this century due to climate change, according to research published today in the journal Nature Cli ...More

When 16th and 17th century European explorers sailed west in pursuit of a trade route to Asia, their search for a Northwest Passage was foiled by Arctic ice. Five hundred years later, melting icecaps ...More

Terming the current disaster relief system inadequate, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday called for a better mechanism to strengthen the institutional framework to extend immediate financial hel ...More

Paris: The world has entered a “new danger zone” with a record level of Earth-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres said on Monday. With a CO2 level of 400 p ...More

Polluted skies and poor water management might not just be a sign of lackadaisical government anymore - it could also mean a smaller budget for the following year. In an attempt to incentivise effo ...More

Aeroplanes will encounter increased Clear-Air Turbulence (CAT) during flights, in the years to come, according to a recent study published in the journal ‘Nature Climate Change’. Modelling studies co ...More

One of Europe's most influential government-owned investors in the energy industry has hinted it may expand funding of high-carbon coal projects despite mounting pressure from climate change campaigne ...More

A team of climate scientists working in Hawaii reported last week that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is now at its highest average level in three million years. The consensus view amo ...More

The Centre will establish a National Bureau of Water Use Efficiency as an “authority” for “promotion, regulation and control of efficient use of water in irrigation, municipal and industrial uses.” T ...More

‘Missing the wood for the trees’ is a popular English proverb, which is commonly used when one goes after a minor detail and resultantly misses the larger picture. But in its origin must be the fact t ...More

The Russian scientists quoted in the article in The Hindu (Op-Ed, “Down to minus 45,” April 22, 2013) make three claims that are either partial truths or assertions with little basis in fact that: the ...More

BANGALORE: Winged guests, who make Bangalore their home every winter and stay on till the second week of May, have left the city early this year. Experts blame it primarily on habitat degradation, wit ...More

The Centre for Earth Science Studies (CESS) has proposed setting up a greenhouse gas observatory at Munnar as part of developing an integrated climate change database and information system in the Sta ...More