BANGALORE: Former Indian cricketer Venkatesh Prasad on Wednesday joined hands with WWF-India to pledge his support to the Earth Hour 2013 - WWF's global campaign to raise awareness and inspire action ...More

The Earth Hour, a global campaign of the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) aimed at raising awareness and inspiring individual action on climate change, received a boost on Monday with actor Jiiva pledg ...More

The rhinoceros’ horn fetches a great sum in the international market. The rhino’s survival on this planet is, therefore, threatened. Have you heard of the Rhinoceros Unicornis? It’s a great bulky cre ...More

One of the features of our modern times is the ability to communicate with one another exceptionally rapidly. Events nowadays burst into our consciousness in an instant, whether it is the Arab Spring ...More

Scientists have rung another warning bell about changes in the fragile ecosystem of the Arctic, saying that vegetation found in areas several degrees to the south of the region 30 years ago was now sh ...More

India is the fourth largest producer of agrochemicals globally. The agrochemical industry worldwide has 60% herbicides , 20% insecticides and 20% fungicides. In India, earlier, farmers used to mix che ...More

The Kerala Revenue Department has come under the attack of cyber criminals with two of its websites defaced by the hackers. The websites of the Commissionerate of Land Revenue and the Directorate of S ...More

GUWAHATI, March 10 – A documentary film by writer-director-producer Lovita JR Morang – Virgin Rhododendron Burnt Alive was screened at the Itanagar Press Club on Wednesday. The documentary, which was ...More

Using data obtained from 73 ice and sediment core monitoring sites around the world, scientists have reconstructed Earth's temperature history back to the end of the last Ice Age. The analysis by rese ...More

London, March 11: Tropical forests are less likely to lose biomass — plants and plant material — in response to greenhouse gas emissions over the 21st century than previously thought, a new study ...More

Scientists have rung another warning bell about changes in the fragile ecosystem of the Arctic, saying that vegetation found in areas several degrees to the south of the region 30 years ago was now sh ...More

A number of hamlets in the foothills of Arunachal Pradesh and upper Assam have disappeared under water in the last few decades with climate change causing rivers to migrate from their route, experts s ...More

A numbers of hamlets in the foothills of Arunachal Pradesh and upper Assam have disappeared under water in the last few decades with climate change causing rivers to migrate from their route, experts ...More

THE Earth and its resources have been under constant stress ever since the start of industrialisation over 200 years ago. The burning of fossil fuels has led to an enormous increase in carbon dioxide ...More

New Delhi: Global carbon dioxide levels have soared to their highest in 15 years and inched perilously close to the highest ever recorded since such monitoring began in 1959, according to report pub ...More

Since preventive therapies are not of much use in stopping an onset of malaria, the only effective methods for combating the disease include the destruction of breeding grounds for mosquitoes, and eit ...More

KOCHI: If you think the days are hotter, when compared to the same period last year, you could be right. The weathermen also think so. The state has been experiencing unusual changes in weather, with ...More

The back-to-back visits of the president of France, Francois Hollande, and the prime minister of Britain, David Cameron, last month have put the spotlight on India’s relationship with Europe. Some b ...More

The ministry of agriculture had organised a conference on Doubling Food Prod¬uc¬ti¬on from Febru¬ary 1-3. The “eminent speakers” invited were not members of Inter¬na¬ti¬o¬nal Assessment of Agricult¬ur ...More

The composting plant of South Delhi Municipal Corporation in Okhla, New Delhi became the first in India to receive the carbon credits from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Th ...More