SHANGHAI: China says 16 endangered finless porpoise have been found dead since the beginning of the year, due in part to what experts suspect is water pollution and climate change, state media reporte ...More

To the world’s military leaders, the debate over climate change is long over. They are preparing for a new kind of Cold War in the Arctic, anticipating that rising temperatures there will open up a tr ...More

Some glaciers on Asia’s Karakoram mountains, which is home to K2, are defying the global trend and getting thicker, a new study has claimed. For the study, a French team used satellite data to show t ...More

WASHINGTON: Per capita meat consumption need to be halved by 2050 in the developed world if the emission of nitrous oxide (N2O), one of the most important greenhouse gases, is to be curbed, as set out ...More

A detailed record of past climate change provides compelling evidence that the last ice age was ended by a rise in temperature driven by an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide. The finding is based ...More

MUMBAI: With an increase in illegal mining, coastal abuse and rampant industrialization, the Centre now plans to rate every state based on their environmental performance. In an endeavour to asses ...More

MUMBAI: With an increase in illegal mining, coastal abuse and rampant industrialization, the Centre now plans to rate every state based on their environmental performance. In an endeavour to asses ...More

BANGKOK, Rising temperatures are triggering severe outbreaks of new, invasive pests that could threaten southeast Asia's multi-billion dollar cassava industry and the livelihoods of thousands of small ...More

WASHINGTON: Antarctica boasts almost twice as many emperor penguins as previously thought, researchers have discovered using satellite mapping technology to count the iceberg-huddling birds from above ...More

LONDON: British engineer Offshore Group Newcastle announced on Friday that it would create up to 1,000 jobs after receiving a government grant to help build offshore wind farms. OGN said in a stateme ...More

SYDNEY: Warmer waters can spike the reproductive capacity of the 'pest' fish known asgambusia and also invest them with faster swimming speeds, says a new study that may have implications for the fert ...More

PARIS: The European Space Agency said on Thursday it had lost contact with Envisat, the biggest Earth-monitoring satellite in history. Designed to operate for only five years, Envisatwas launched ...More

LONDON: The UK government pledged 60 million pounds ($95 million) to support the Met Office Hadley Centre's Climate Programme until at least 2015 to keep Britain at the forefront of climate science ...More

WASHINGTON: It's been so warm in the United States this year, especially in March, that national records weren't just broken, they were deep-fried. Temperatures in the lower 48 states were 8.6 degree ...More

Srinagar: While climate change in the Himalayas has weather scientists worried, its spin-off could not only satisfy the palate of a growing number of Mediterranean fruit lovers, but also help in signi ...More

The Sunderbans, spreading across West Bengal and Bangladesh, is fast emerging as the climate change flashpoint of the globe. Despite the warning signals of increased frequency of cyclones and tidal fl ...More

Surf’s out: The stormy surf of Ocean Beach, San Francisco grinds away at the beach, eroding the sand and bluffs. The US government is left with three options: to keep installing hard structures in f ...More

BEIJING: China is willing to share with other nations its unique experiences in water management and conservation, according to Chen Lei, minister of water resources. China is not only committed to ...More

LONDON: Cosmic dust that fills space could be playing a part in climate change, scientists say. A study is now trying to ascertain how much of this dust enters the Earth's atmosphere - in a bid to fin ...More

The Hindu GREEN EFFORT: B.V. Ramanaa, Environment Minister (second from left), releasing a book as part of Trees of Tamil Nadu series, which is being received by C.V. Sankar, Principal Secretary for E ...More