Following revelations the state wildlife department has failed to release a major climate change report, the agency’s former chief said the department should be leading efforts to brace South Carolina ...More

Analysis: When recession hit hard in 2009, climate change plummeted down the political agenda as quickly as shares in Anglo Irish Bank. An indication of its marginalisation has been the spectacular de ...More

Farmers of eastern Uttar Pradesh are facing a strange predicament. They are experiencing rains, floods and then drought — all in one season — forcing them to switch to multi-cropping pattern from mono ...More

A newly released international study reveals that the issue of climate change is not a priority for people in the United States and around the world. The surveys showed that when asked to rank priori ...More

KARACHI: Pakistan International Bulk Terminal Limited in collaboration with IUCN Pakistan organised a half-day event at the PIBT site at Port Qasim to highlight the benefits of mangroves for the coast ...More

By offering the nuclear industry a 40-year subsidy (Ministers offer nuclear reactor deal until 2050, 19 February), the coalition is backtracking on its 2010 promise not to make the public pay for new ...More

New Zealand is to provide 4.5 million NZ dollars ($3.76 million) in a major project to help Pacific island nations manage their environments and ensure sustainable development. An agreement signed ...More

BEIJING, China has indicated it plans to introduce a tax on carbon dioxide emissions. Jia Chen, who heads the tax policy division at the Ministry of Finance, in a posting on the ministry's website, ...More

Global energy, climate dynamics, the state’s climate and more such topics were presented to students through a series of questions and answers at the Climate Change Educational Programme-2013. The ...More

A cross-party group of MPs has written to finance minister P Chidambaram, asking him to incorporate fiscal measures for renewable energy in the upcoming Union Budget so that the targets set in the Nat ...More

A 21-year-old city student of Chartered Accountancy has been invited to Antarctic as part of a 15-day International Antarctic Expedition 2014. Sangram Kakad, a commerce graduate from Brihan Maharash ...More

Normal monsoon will decrease in the future due to the impact of impending climate change, a research conducted by various bodies, has said. The findings of a research project, ClimaRice, jointly co ...More

Normal monsoon will decrease in the future due to the impact of impending climate change, a research conducted by various bodies, has said. The findings of a research project, ClimaRice, jointly co ...More

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said regulatory mechanisms for environment protection and development needs should be transparent and accountable so that both could work in tandem. ...More

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday constituted a secretary level panel to assist the PM’s Council on Climate Change in implementing the eight missions to fight climate change. Implementation o ...More

Transparent and accountable regulatory regimes are necessary to promote a balance between the environmental and economic agendas currently competing for attention, said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh h ...More

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said regulatory mechanisms for environment protection and development needs should be transparent and accountable so that both could work in tandem. Sp ...More

Lord Stern, author of the government-commissioned review on climate change that became the reference work for politicians and green campaigners, now says he underestimated the risks, and should have b ...More

A secretive funding organization in the United States that guarantees anonymity for its billionaire donors has emerged as a major operator in the climate "counter movement" to undermine the science of ...More

Least developed countries (LDCs) are a group of 49 countries that are considered to be the world’s poorest and weakest countries. Among these 49 countries, 33 LDCs are in Africa alone. These LDCs have ...More