NEW DELHI: Kerala's tranquil stretches of emerald green backwaters and Mumbai are among several locales on the western and eastern coasts facing threat from the rising sea level due to climate change. ...More

TROMSOE, Norway: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flew to this city in the Arctic Circle Friday to see first hand the way climate change is opening a once frozen region to competition for vast oi ...More

One hears about businesses benefiting from revenue growth that has come from products, services and business model innovations that are in line with green stewardship. Others benefit from purchasing a ...More

As with other br¬anches of science and mathematics, climate science involves considerable scientific uncertainty. Beyond that, however, uncertainty in climate science comes from the many complex force ...More

COLOGNE, Germany: Carbon market trading reached a record value of $176 billion in 2011, rising 11% spurred by secondary trading volumes which offset lower prices and slowing economies, the World Bank ...More

CHANDIGARH: The climate change in northern India is likely to have a severely detrimental impact on the productivity of wheat, the prime crop in Punjab, which is likely to go down by over 8% by 2035. ...More

WASHINGTON: Climate change may be the main culprit behind the collapse of the Indus Valley Civilization around 4,000 years ago, says a new study, which also claims to have resolved the long-standing d ...More

Andhra Pradesh: It is aimed at involving people from different walks of life in the awareness drive on June 3 and 5 As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility, The Hindu , in association with the ...More

MANALI: The debate may be continuing about global warming, but the ground reality here is that dozens of streams and brooks of Kullu district have dried up completely, while many others are about to d ...More

Situation will ease after the onset of monsoon, says weatherman The heat wave that people of North-coastal Andhra Pradesh have been experiencing in the last couple of days has a direct link to the ph ...More

NEW DELHI: After three days of bare-knuckled fight, India, backed by the Asia Pacific group, claimed a victory at the Bonn climate negotiations with its nominee being declared co-chair of the most imp ...More

SYDNEY, May 23: Seagrasses can hold as much carbon as the world’s temperate and tropical forests and play an important role in mitigating in climate change, says a first global analysis conducted by r ...More

The Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB) is launching an awareness campaign on May 22 to sensitise coastal communities to the threats faced by marine life and ecosystems and highlight the need for s ...More

NEW DELHI: With the small island countries and the least developed states veering towards the European line on climate change, the larger developing economies came together with African countries, bin ...More

The Centre for Humanitarian Assistance Trust (CFHAT), a NGO engaged in multiple environmental programmes, child rights, low carbon farming and other areas, is organising a children's national awarenes ...More

NEW DELHI: With the small island countries and the least developed states veering towards the European line on climate change, the larger developing economies came together with African countries, bin ...More

PUNE: Weather scientists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology are studying high resolution climate projections over South Asian Monsoon region which is expected to contribute to future cr ...More

One tenth of the Western Hemisphere's mammals won't move swiftly enough to outpace climate change, because they won't be able to expand into new areas fast enough, a University of Washington study sho ...More

The State-level Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) has accorded clearance for the construction of the greenfield stadium on the campus of the University of Kerala, Karyavattom, being buil ...More

NEW DELHI: On the second day of the Bonn climate change negotiations, the US, the EU and other developed countries tried to stall discussions on whether the rich countries had met their obligations on ...More