Increasing human pressures and ecosystem changes are posing combined threat to the population of endangered Royal Bengal tigers, in Sundarbans. This has been stressed in an expert study titled ‘Sharin ...More

Local and international activists march inside a conferences center to demand urgent action to address climate change at the U.N. climate talks in Doha, Qatar, Friday, Dec.7, 2012. A dispute over mo ...More

UN chief Ban Ki-moon speaks at the climate change summit in Doha. Photograph: Karim Jaafar/AFP/Getty Images The EU remains hopeful of securing a deal to rescue the Kyoto protocol as climate change ta ...More

New York’s brush with developing-nation status is an even bigger warning for Asia than it is for the US. The city could be excused for wondering if it had suddenly been transported to Bangladesh in Oc ...More

UN talks seeking to halt the march of global warming entered their final day in Doha on Friday with key points outstanding. DOHA: UN talks seeking to halt the march of global warming entered their fi ...More

With several differences and concerns yet to be resolved, negotiators on Friday head for another night of diplomatic wrangling at the Doha climate talks, which have inevitably spilled over into an ext ...More

A global climate change deal was limping towards another ‘disappointing’ conclusion last night, scientists warned, after countries failed to agree on cutting carbon emissions. Local and internatio ...More

DOHA: The ongoing UN negotiations on climate change are all set to stretch beyond the scheduled deadline of Friday, thanks to the developed world, which has refused to deliver on finance, equity, adap ...More

DOHA: The developed world rejected India's offer of a diluted reference to concerns about intellectual property rights (IPR) in the climate negotiations as the talks in Doha peaked. For almost two ...More

While there is a general sense of agreement on the principle of equity per se, the challenge now will be to make the world agree on operationalising equity — equity cannot remain just an idea, it shou ...More

With less than 24 hours to go for the climate talks to close officially, on Thursday evening, ministers were still grappling to find an acceptable text which can be touted as an outcome of the current ...More

pProposed changes to Australia’s national environmental law, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act (EPBC) 1999, appear to have been shelved. The politics have shifted rapidly. Ultimately, th ...More

KOLKATA: Prof Robert RM Verchick, who recently served in the Obama administration as deputy associate administrator for policy at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), strongly believes Americ ...More

Terming the current global climate change scenario as “serious times”, a US environmental law expert on Wednesday cautioned that the rise in sea level in the Indian Ocean could make cities like Kolkat ...More

George Osborne's dash for gas is "completely incompatible" with the nation's legally binding carbon emissions targets and should be "plan Z", according to the government's official climate advisers. ...More

With the Parliament debate on foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail keeping the government on toes, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan will give the global climate talks at Doha a ...More

As the United Nations climate change conference enters the high level segment, with a ministerial round slated for Wednesday, negotiators are grappling with the impasse over issues of finance and the ...More

Doha (Qatar), December 05, 2012 The European Union has decided on a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels subsidies in the new climate agreement, to be readied by 2015 in Qatar, where water costs more ...More

Large-scale investment in offshore wind would generate more wealth for the economy and create more jobs than relying on gas-fired power plants, a report suggested on Tuesday. Substantial deployment o ...More

DOHA: The negotiations at Qatar National Convention Centre have been a witness to a slow cleaving of ties between the 'allies' of Durban talks last year - the European Union (EU) and the association o ...More