Most of the world’s disabled live in the global south. This is why India and other Brics nations must ensure their policies are both inclusive and accessible Born with congenital spina bifida, a dev ...More

Development of a large-scale software model to examine the impact of climate change in Kerala is part of a forthcoming scientific study that will formulate an integrated climate change database and in ...More

“The risk we face from the mounting dangers to the environment and life support systems are far greater than the risks we face in conflicts with each other. The dangers of waiting threatens Planet E ...More

OSLO: Plants help to slow climate change by emitting gases as temperatures rise that lead to the formation of a sunshade of clouds over the planet, scientists said on Sunday. The tiny sun-dimming ...More

Water bodies in the district are under severe threat of pollution and if it goes unchecked it will soon lead to an environmental disaster. In the wake of growing threat of climate change and increasin ...More

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief minister Oommen Chandy on Thursday said there was a need for a change in the science policy of the state. He was participating in a high-level meet on science and technology ...More

WASHINGTON: South Asia has enormous potential but the region faces many serious challenges like climate change and scarcity of resources that weigh it down in too many ways, a former top US State Depa ...More

The High Seas, Our Future Conference concluded on 11 April 2013 in Paris, France with the launch of Paris Appeal for the High Seas. The conference stressed upon the importance of governance of the hig ...More

A Parliamentary panel has pulled up the government for allocating meagre budget of Rs 25,553 crore for agricultural research during the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17) saying the government has "failed ...More

RV Institute of Management (RVIM) observed ‘Word Earth Day’ by organising a short-film screening along with a briefing on one’s responsibility towards the environment, at their campus recently. The ...More

In what may be interpreted as another sign of climate change, the maximum April temperature in Pune for the past three years has failed to cross the 40 degrees Celsius mark. This, scientists from both ...More

India as a global power has taken a responsible position in energy use, Gawdat G Bahgat, Professor of National Security Affairs, National Defence University, Washington DC, has said. Countries includi ...More

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for phased adjustments in the energy prices to bring them to the international level, at the 57th meeting of the National Development Council. The increase in e ...More

The campaign group formed to support Barack Obama's political agenda has launched an initiative to shame members of Congress who deny the science behind climate change. In an email to supporters on T ...More

Canada's natural resources minister, Joe Oliver, rarely bothers to hide his dislike for critics of the country's carbon-heavy tar sands or the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. But it still came as ...More

The Catalans were beaten to a pulp. Thousands of fans in the stadium in Munich, and several million all over the world closely following every move on television realised something over an hour and a ...More

LONDON: British lawmakers criticised the government on Friday for unnecessarily delaying development of shale gas, saying it should now encourage companies to come up with more accurate estimates of r ...More

Shale gas fracking companies should be made to offer incentives, such as cash payments or rebates on energy bills, to people living near their sites, according to an influential committee of MPs. But ...More

A new grass that cuts the water running off from fields by half could help stem the rising floods that global warming is bringing to the UK. The roots of the grass, a natural hybrid of rye and fescue ...More

A group of six activists from Greenpeace International, including Gaurav Jagdish, 31, an adventure sports trainer from Bangalore, boarded a Korean-owned coal ship M V Meister early on Wednesday to pro ...More