OSLO: Environmental group Greenpeace launched a website on Wednesday seeking to attract whistleblowers from within oil companies to reveal risks with drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic. Greenp ...More

New test results have provided further evidence that the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide and Earth's surface temperature are inextricably linked. Nearly thirty-four million years ago, the ...More

SHORTLY after winning re-election in November, President Obama promised assertive leadership on climate change and energy. In his State of the Union address in February, he vowed that if the assembled ...More

Farmers bodies are gearing up to oppose the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011, which was supposedly amended to improve compensation to farmers under directions from Congress ...More

Leading environmental groups declared on Monday that the Obama administration's latest environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline fundamentally violated the nation's core environmental law, an u ...More

For the first time in Asia, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies on Environment and Development (CIIEMD), Mexico, is conducting its annual international congress at Bharathidasan University. The ...More

JAMMU, Apr 22: To mark 43rd World Earth Day with a focus on earth resources and its ecological services, the Departments of Dogri, Punjabi and Environmental Sciences at University of Jammu were today ...More

LONDON: Britain said it would take ownership of 2,950 kg of waste plutonium that it has been storing on behalf of European utilities and may reprocess it into fuel for a planned new generation of nucl ...More

There’s a silver lining around that dark cloud called “energy crisis”. Karnataka is performing well on the renewable energy front. In fact, it is outperforming most other states, and exceeding its own ...More

GURGAON: While Gurgaon is losing its green cover because of concretization by private developers in connivance with state departments, the Haryana chief minister is talking about evolving strategies t ...More

KOHIMA: Nagaland forest and environment minister Y Patton on Monday said that people from all walks of life should voice their concern for the planet and seek its protection. Speaking at the 43rd a ...More

April 22, 2013: Everyone in the transport sector agrees that moving goods by ship is cheaper, fuel-efficient and more eco-friendly than by truck or train. India has a 7,500 km coastline with aroun ...More

KOHIMA: Indiscriminate felling of trees, poaching and unplanned development were creating problems for Nagaland, which was the face of climate change in the state, Environment and Wildlife minister Y ...More

Every farmer should become a scientist by learning from his experience and finding out methods to meet the challenges in agriculture. For this to happen, farmers should share their field experiences a ...More

A major scientific research project has found that warming over the 20th century produced the hottest global average temperatures in 1400 years. Using proxy records such as tree-ring measurements, po ...More

Greenpeace on Monday called for revision of the Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO) mechanism based on equity principle. The RPO framework, in its present form, has failed to deliver its mandate and m ...More

Bengaluru: A study published in Nature Geoscience Rese¬a¬rchers has revealed that global warming over the 20th century has produ¬ced the hottest global average temperatures in 1,400 years. Scientists ...More

Mahindra Reva, country's electric vehicle pioneer, part of the USD 15.9 billion Mahindra Group, today unveiled its all-electric, zero-emission 'Mahindra e2o'in Chandigarh which would be available at a ...More

Popular search engine Google celebrated World Earth Day 2013 on April 22 with an interesting and interacting 3D doodle which intends creating awareness against a common enemy called “climate change”. ...More

To conserve our environment and make Earth a better place to live in, Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has urged scientists to evolve strategies to meet climate-related challenges and aske ...More