NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has told chief climate negotiators of South Africa, Brazil and China that 'equity' and the principle of 'common but differentiated responsibilities' will remai ...More

A meeting was held at Gram Panchayat Bangsil under the National Mission for a Green India which was presided by Sarita Gaudh, Pradhan of the Panchayat. Forest Officer Komal Singh apprised the villager ...More

WASHINGTON: Climate change is warming the oceans and preventing water layers from mixing, which could upset the carbon storage capacity of microbes and plankton. As the ocean surface warms, eviden ...More

NEW DELHI: Ahead of a meeting with environment ministers of BASIC countries, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said growth is important for the people but should take place in a way which does n ...More

Heavy rainfall and snowfall could occur at a few places in Uttarakhand, warned the meteorological department on Monday. It is mid-February and there is no let up in cold. Higher reaches have already w ...More

For the first time since the December climate change meet in Durban, environment ministers from the BASIC countries – Brazil, South Africa, India and China – will come together in New Delhi this week. ...More

Many years ago, in a desperately poor village in Rajasthan, people decided to plant trees on the land adjoining their pond so that its catchment would be protected. But this land belonged to the reven ...More

WASHINGTON: Climate change combined with human activity caused the disappearance of tropical rainforests in central Africa 3,000 years ago, a study has found. According to the Prensa Latina news ag ...More

WASHINGTON: Climate change combined with human activity caused the disappearance of tropical rainforests in central Africa 3,000 years ago, a study has found. According to the Prensa Latina news ag ...More

SYDNEY: Climate change could affectAntarctica's Dry Valleys more rapidly than previously expected, particularly the microbial communities in the soil, a study reveals. "We used to think that micro ...More

Women have greater role to play in Climate Change mitigation as women are more good resource manager then men. Women are particularly vulnerable to Climate Change because they are more prone to the ad ...More

On the valedictory function of a five-day long training course for women scientists on climate change mitigation on Friday, V.K. Bahuguna, director general of ICFRE, emphasised the fact that women, in ...More

The legacy of the ‘imperfect deal’ — as it was called by all participants — at the Copenhagen climate conference two years back continued in the Durban summit last December. People's need had lost out ...More

The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows. The disco ...More

PUNE: The 12th five year plan related to biodiversity will focus on reclaiming wetlands, inland lakes and ponds, assess coastal biodiversity resources, use and sustainability, implementing recovery ...More

Taking a major step in protection of environment and climate change studies, Himachal Government would provide land and all other possible assistance for setting up of Energy and Resources Institute ...More

A Russian team has succeeded in drilling through four kilometres (2.5 miles) of ice to the surface of a mythical subglacial Antarctic lake which could hold as yet unknown life forms, reports said Mond ...More

We have seen what had happened in Durban. What's your observation on Durban as a platform for environment negotiations? I can only look at it from the point of view of the science of climate change. ...More

LONDON: Britain's newly-appointed Energy and Climate Change Secretary Edward Davey on Monday confirmed the country's commitment to its green energy targets and its focus on growing the offshore wind ...More

Twenty-seven women scientists and technologists from different scientific organisations of the nation are participating in the training programme on climate change and carbon mitigation. The programme ...More