A mission launched to measure changes in the Himalayas due to climate change, has claimed that the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, is losing its ice rapidly. A US-funded mission led b ...More

WASHINGTON: The World Bank and IMF are proposing global carbon taxes on aviation and ship fuels in developed economies to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions, according to a draft proposal seen by ...More

Research at the University of Liverpool has found that periods of rapid fluctuation in temperature coincided with the emergence of the first distant relatives of human beings and the appearance and sp ...More

WASHINGTON: The World Bank and IMF are proposing global carbon taxes on aviation and ship fuels in developed economies to help reducecarbon dioxide emissions, according to a draft proposal seen by A ...More

Developing countries are increasingly frustrated by the refusal of rich countries to meet their climate finance pledges. Leaked World Bank documents propose that rich countries should eliminate the $ ...More

The Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), the Uttarakhand Space Application Centre (USAC) and the Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organisation (HESCO) are jointly organising ...More

Deep oceans of the earth may be absorbing enough heat to flatten out the rate of global warming for as long as a decade, a new research has suggested. Ocean layers deeper than 1,000 feet (300 mete ...More

UNITED NATIONS: Global investment in clean energy rose to a record $243 billion dollars last year with the vast majority concentrated in the world's top 20 economies, the United Nations said Wednesd ...More

MUMBAI: The 2011 annual CDP Global 500 report, published on Wednesday, reported for the first time in the 10 years since the survey begun more than two-thirds (68%) of leading global businesses have ...More

The Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education will now work to integrate the practical approaches to forest landscape restoration (FLR) for regaining ecological integrity and enhancing human w ...More

MUMBAI: The 2011 annual CDP Global 500 report, published on Wednesday, reported for the first time in the 10 years since the survey begun more than two-thirds (68%) of leading global businesses have ...More

UNITED NATIONS: Global investment in clean energyrose to a record $243 billion dollars last year with the vast majority concentrated in the world's top 20 economies, the United Nations said Wednes ...More

JOHANNESBURG: The World Bank says the threats posed by global warming on the African continent and East Africa's famine should drive the agenda when international climate change talks come to the cont ...More

Samples drilled from Greenland’s ice sheets have thrown up initial clues that our climate is capable of very rapid and rather abrupt changes, according to an international team of scientists. Such ev ...More

JOHANNESBURG: The World Bank says the threats posed by global warming on the African continent and East Africa's famine should drive the agenda when international climate change talks come to the co ...More

Climate change is seriously affecting food production in the Pacific region and could result in rise of hunger and malnutrition in the area, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Tuesday. An ADB r ...More

IMPHAL, Sept 11 – None of the North Eastern States except Assam has prepared the draft for the State action plan on climate change. Nagaland has also started the ground work while Manipur is in the pr ...More

A SALUTE TO NATURE: Winning teams from Air India, Videocon (Aurangabad), Bilt (Pune) with minister of rural development Jairam Ramesh NEW DELHI: The mad rush for greater development and growth was ec ...More

NEW DELHI: Dire forecasts about climate changeand the global failure to rein in the growing carbon footprint has made it imperative for both industry and grassroots movement to not only advocate s ...More

NEW DELHI: The mad rush for greater development and growth was eclipsing serious environment concerns that could endanger the existence of the planet itself and urgent steps were needed to factor in t ...More