With growing awareness about climate change and energy conservation, FC revisits significant milestones of 2012 that could help policymaking in the New Year The year 2012 saw a number of climate-re ...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. Speaking ...More

Fresh guidelines on tiger conservation, controversy over a proposal for speedy green clearances for mega projects and Western Ghats getting enlisted as a world heritage site were the highlights of Uni ...More

Under the 18th Amendment, the subject of environment and natural ecology, which could be found under the Concurrent List of the Constitution, was devolved to the provinces. The Concurrent List was abo ...More

Caroline Lucas wrote to the cabinet secretary in 2011 with a warning about secondments. She received no reply. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Almost two dozen employees from compani ...More

Fresh guidelines on tiger conservation, controversy over a proposal for speedy green clearances for mega projects and Western Ghats getting enlisted as a world heritage site were the highlights of Uni ...More

The world’s largest organisms—old-growth trees—are a “barometer of the health of our planet,” says Bill Laurance, professor of Conservation Biology at James Cook University in Australia. “Their decli ...More

This year has been declared one of the worst ever for the country’s environment.�Experts say 2012 was especially disastrous, with environmental crime at an all-time high; pollution, depredation ...More

Citizens, don’t lose hope: Local action to cut greenhouse gas emissions flourishes. B.C.’s cities have the bang missing from the Doha climate talks that just ended with barely a whimper. A global cont ...More

Collette Croze sits on her deck that overlooks the Delaware River. / JENNIFER CORBETT/THE NEWS JOURNAL David F. Ledford,executive editor Related Links For those living along Delaware Bay’s exposed ...More

December 29, 2012 Earth is growing warmer; the records prove that. Some still doubt human activity has anything to do with it, but it's past time for the rest of us to face reality. We need, first, ...More

The early landscape shifted between woodland to grassland half a dozen times over 200,000 years, meaning man had to adapt to survive. Experts from Penn State university say that this may have set th ...More

LONDON: The UK is on track to meet its 2020 renewable energy targets after low-carbon electricity generation grew more than a quarter in the year to end-June 2012, thanks largely to new solar and offs ...More

Wildlife campaigners are at odds over a new attempt to ban the global trade in polar bear parts. Some activists say the market for rugs and ornaments made from the bears is driving them to extinctio ...More

WASHINGTON: Warmer weather and a growing population may in a few decades cause a water shortage for 40 million people who depend on the Colorado river in the US, researchers say. Climate modellers ...More

The study found UK drivers accounted for £48bn of costs out of £303bn across the EU – second only to Germany. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA The perennial complaint from drivers that they are excessively ...More

INDORE: A study will be carried out to find out the co-relation between forest and water in Narmada catchment area. A proposal in this regard given by forest department was approved in principal durin ...More

The past few years – more so 2012 – have seen a noticeable downswing in the global commitment for combating climate change. The disappointing outcome of the UN-sponsored summit on climate change at Do ...More

The data from Byrd Station shows rapid warming on the west Antarctic ice sheet A new analysis of temperature records indicates that the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet is warming nearly twice as fast as ...More

The annual ritual of the United Nations climate change conference, held this year at Doha, Qatar, has concluded after a “stoppage time” ending. It is hard to label the Doha summit as a success or a fa ...More