A polar bear mother huddles with her two cubs in Wapusk National Park on the shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Man. on Nov. 6, 2007. Canada is being forced to explain its polar bear policies to an i ...More

Environment Minister Peter Kent has repeatedly said the government does not muzzle its scientists. But Kent’s office stopped David Tarasick, an Environment Canada researcher, from talking to journalis ...More

If you were that way inclined, you could say that the biblical weather we've been having this past week – perfectly timed to coincide with start of the Doha climate talks – was some thundering deity d ...More

The annual United Nations climate summit has convened, this year in Doha, the capital of the oil-rich emirate of Qatar, on the Arabian Peninsula. Dubbed "COP 18", an army of bureaucrats, business peop ...More

Almost 200 countries are gathered in Doha, Qatar for the latest climate change summit. The annual talks have already agreed that global temperature rise should be kept to a minimum of 2C by cutting ...More

More than 4tn tonnes of ice from Greenland and Antarctica has melted in the past 20 years and flowed into the oceans, pushing up sea levels, according to a study that provides the best measure to date ...More

The polar ice sheets are indeed shrinking—and fast, according to a comprehensive new study on climate change. And the effects, according to an international team, are equally clear—sea levels are ri ...More

Washington, Nov 29: The world’s sea level is rising 60 per cent faster than the central projections of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), says a new study. Satellite measurements s ...More

DOHA: US chief negotiator for climate change Jonathan Pershing has reminded the international green NGOs here that it pays to bring them to these global conferences. He said so in a closed-door me ...More

DOHA: US chief negotiator for climate change Jonathan Pershing rubbished the principle of sharing the atmospheric space with other countries in a closed-door meeting, whose clandestine recording has b ...More

KOLKATA: Upbeat over a healthy and thriving estuarine crocodile population in Sunderbans, the outcome of the first ever saltwater crocodile assessment in the mangroves, a group of premier wildlife bod ...More

DOHA(QATAR): An area of Arctic sea ice bigger than the United States melted this year, according the UN weather agency, which said the dramatic decline illustrates that climate change is happening "be ...More

A flood 'bund' at Glasdir in Ruthin was overwhelmed by the River Clwyd Welsh Secretary David Jones has visited people affected by floods in north Wales and questioned whether they may have been victi ...More

Well, you can't say state agencies didn't get what they asked for when they sought opinions at the first Citizen Forums on the Environment: • Global climate change is a serious threat to ...More

There's just one area in which India has outrun China - air pollution. The rise in air pollution levels in Indian megacities between 2002 and 2010 has been much more than Chinese urban centres. It wa ...More

Sea levels are rising faster than predicted as a result of climate change, scientists said today. Satellite measurements show sea levels rose 3.2mm a year between 1993 and 2011, 60% above the 2mm es ...More

The latest statistics compiled by NASA, the Met Office and the University of East Anglia suggest the average temperature for 2012 will be about 14.45C. This is 0.45C above the 1961 to 1990 average a ...More

Campaigners threatened to sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday in an effort to push Barack Obama to make good on his re-election promise to act on climate change. The formal not ...More

The millennium development goals (MDGs), adopted by United Nations (UN) member countries in the year 2000 to address the most pressing development challenges facing humanity, are supposed to be met by ...More

PM’s statements equate Ministry of Environment and Forest’s record in providing clearances to dreaded licence raj Auduth timblo is the owner of Fomento Group, one of the largest mining and iron ore e ...More