LONDON: Global greenhouse gas emissions could rise 50 percent by 2050 without more ambitious climate policies, as fossil fuels continue to dominate the energy mix, the Organization for Economic Cooper ...More

The issue of global governance has acquired increasing salience in recent years. With the process of globalisation and the increasing interconnectedness of economies, issues that transcend national an ...More

BANGKOK: Climate-related disasters have displaced more than 42 million people in Asia over the past two years, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday in a report calling for swift action to avert fut ...More

The Director General of Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) believes that programmes like ‘Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation plus (REDD+)’ can potentia ...More

Water pollution from agriculture is costing billions of dollars a year in developed countries and is expected to increase in China and India as farmers race to increase food production, the Organisati ...More

The Greenland icesheet is more sensitive to global warming than thought, for just a relatively small – but very long term – temperature rise would melt it completely, according to a study publ ...More

Bursts of torrential rain lash the idyllic white beaches of the Seychelles, where conservationists fear that rare species such as the giant tortoise are at severe risk from climate change. As changin ...More

Fearing that climate change could wipe out their entire Pacific archipelago, the leaders of Kiribati are considering an unusual backup plan — moving the populace to Fiji. Kiribati President Anote Ton ...More

NEW DELHI: Worried about the day when the Himalayan glaciers have melted, the Yamuna is a marsh and your taps have run dry? It's unlikely to happen soon. Scientists from JNU's School of Environmental ...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

The trend started on the West, and now Indian brands are slowly waking up to the need. Sustainability is important and if brands are to survive, they must focus on making the planet a better place to ...More

India has attempted to re-introduce differentiation between developed and developing countries, the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, in the discussions on emission reduction un ...More

Our oceans acidified by 0.1 unit of pH through the 20th century, and it is estimated that they will acidify by another 0.2-0.3 pH in this century. In order to understand the impact of future acidifica ...More

KOCHI: The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) in collaboration with the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, will conduct an international wor ...More

KOCHI: The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) in collaboration with theInstitute of Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, will conduct aninternational worksho ...More

LONDON: The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is making little headway on market-based measures to curb carbon dioxide emissions from international shipping, putting it on a policy collision c ...More

LONDON: The International Maritime Organization(IMO) is making little headway on market-based measures to curb carbon dioxide emissions from international shipping, putting it on a policy collision ...More

WASHINGTON: Here are five of the world's highest biodiversity ecologies still over 70 percent intact as identified by the Conservation International. Hotspots require two main criteria: At least 1 ...More

WASHINGTON: Here are five of the world's highest biodiversity ecologies still over 70 percent intact as identified by the Conservation International. Hotspots require two main criteria: At least 1 ...More

On February 27 while giving the go-ahead to the controversial project of inter-linking of rivers, the Supreme Court specifically mentioned the benefits — flood control and drought moderation As plans ...More