Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, an autonomous council under the Ministry of Environment and Forests, was formed in 1986, and has eight national Institutes located in Dehradun, Coimb ...More

GENEVA: The amount of global warming-causing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere rose to a new high in 2010, and the rate of increase has accelerated, the UN weather agency said on Monday. Levels ...More

GENEVA: The amount of global warming-causinggreenhouse gases in the atmosphere rose to a new high in 2010, and the rate of increase has accelerated, the UN weather agency said on Monday. Levels of ...More

NEW DELHI, Nov 19 – Sixteen districts of eight Northeastern States were among therecently identified 100 most climate vulnerable districts of the country. Of the 16, Assam has as many as four dist ...More

IT companies Tata Consultancy Service (TCS) andWipro are among the top ten companies in the leadership index for the Carbon Disclosure Project in India for 2011, says the latest report. The top ...More

Top international climate scientists and disaster experts meeting in Africa have a sharp message for the world's political leaders, "Get ready for more dangerous and unpredictable weather caused b ...More

NEW DELHI: Historical responsibility and equity are at the heart of India's international climate change stance again. Environment ministerJayanthi Natarajan stated that India would insist on uncond ...More

IMPHAL, Nov 16 – A number of rare and endemic species of flora and fauna found in the North East may soon be extinct due to climate change unless conservation efforts are accelerated, warns a new ...More

IMPHAL, Nov 16 – A number of rare and endemic species of flora and fauna found in the North East may soon be extinct due to climate change unless conservation efforts are accelerated, warns a new ...More

NEW DELHI: Cloud bursts, such as the one that deluged Mumbai in 2005, could become a more frequent reality. Instead of occurring once in 20 years as they do on an average now, by the end of 21st centu ...More

IMPHAL, Nov 16 – A number of rare and endemic species of flora and fauna found in the North East may soon be extinct due to climate change unless conservation efforts are accelerated, warns a new ...More

NEW DELHI: Cloud bursts, such as the one that deluged Mumbai in 2005, could become a more frequent reality. Instead of occurring once in 20 years as they do on an average now, by the end of 21st cen ...More

NEW DELHI: Consensus eluded a meeting of key countries on climate change, including India, EU, China and the US, called by Spain along with South Africa and Mexico at Madrid recently. The meeting c ...More

Omkar Singh, Deputy Director General (Education) ICFRE said that Climate Change was a major challenge for developing countries like India where communities depends heavily on natural resources like fo ...More

The earth’s average temperature has risen by 1C since the 1950s, says a controversial study. For their study, researchers, led by Professor Richard Muller from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperatures ...More

The multi-million dollar trade in carbon flourishing in India faces the guillotine, with the European Union (EU) refusing to sign the Kyoto Protocol's second phase unless emerging countries commit to ...More

When world leaders sit down again to discuss climate change, we hope that the people who live and work on the world's 500 million small farms will be with them, at least in spirit. Their voice — and t ...More

Nicholas Stern, one of the world’s most prominent climate economists, believes failure to address global warming issues could create “a risk of global war”. Mr. Stern, author of the Stern Review on t ...More

The world is likely to build so many new fossil-fuelled power stations, energy-guzzling factories and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it will become impossible to hold global warming ...More

Arctic Sea could be ice free by the summer of 2015, a leading ocean expert in Britain has claimed. According to Prof Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University, the ice that forms over the Arctic sea is s ...More