NEW DELHI: India took a swipe at the partisan nature of those heading and conducting the negotiations at the climate talks when it asked theUN Framework Convention on Climate Changesecretariat to pr ...More

PARIS: UN talks struggling to forge a response to global warming must salvage the embattled Kyoto Protocol or risk collapse, the head of a 43-nation bloc of island nations said Friday. "Some count ...More

PARIS: UN talks struggling to forge a response to global warming must salvage the embattled Kyoto Protocol or risk collapse, the head of a 43-nation bloc of island nations said Friday. "Some count ...More

NEW DELHI: How ambitious are the emission reduction targets rich nations are ready to adopt for 2020? Pretty low, suggests a technical report that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has pre ...More

NEW DELHI: Noted environmentalist R K Pachauri said the Himalayan glaciers are melting at a "very rapid pace" on Tuesday, but did not refer to his earlier assertion that the glaciers could disappear b ...More

NEW DELHI: Noted environmentalist R K Pachauri said the Himalayan glaciers are melting at a "very rapid pace" on Tuesday, but did not refer to his earlier assertion that the glaciers could disappear ...More

PARIS: Energy-related carbon-dioxide (CO2) emission reached a record high in 2010, up by five% from the last record in 2008, the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) said. Emissions in 20 ...More

Carbon-dioxide emissions hit a record high in 2010, the International Energy Agency said on today, dimming the prospects of limiting the global temperature increase to two degrees Celsius. "Energy-r ...More

PARIS: Energy-related carbon-dioxide (CO2) emission reached a record high in 2010, up by five% from the last record in 2008, the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) said. Emissions in 20 ...More

MUMBAI: Magsaysay award-winning water conservationist Rajendra Singh, said on Sunday that the Ministry of Environment and Forests had become “pollutant protection ministry.” He was talking to The Hin ...More

The speed at which the Earth’s permafrost is melting suggests that the tipping point will occur within the next 20 years, and will mark the point at which the Arctic turns from being a net ‘sink’ fo ...More

Global food output may be hurt as climate change brings more extreme weather over the next decade, with China likely set for harsher droughts and North America getting heavier rain, said the World M ...More

WASHINGTON: Climate change is expected to alter the global industry in fruits and nuts dramatically as tree crops such as pistachios and cherries struggle in the rising temperatures, researchers said. ...More

ADDIS ABABA: India and Africa asked the developed counties to take "ambitious actions" to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and also provide finance and technology to the developing counties s ...More

ADDIS ABABA: India and Africa asked the developed counties to take "ambitious actions" to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and also provide finance and technology to the developing counties so ...More

ADDIS ABABA: India and Africa asked the developed counties to take "ambitious actions" to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and also provide finance and technology to the developing counties so th ...More

WASHINGTON: The United States is experiencing the deadliest year for tornadoes in nearly six decades, but top US weather experts said on Monday there is no link between the violent twisters and clim ...More

Himachal Pradesh has signed a historic agreement on emission reduction with World Bank, a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) bio-carbon sub-project of Himachal Pradesh under mid himalayan watershed d ...More

WASHINGTON: The United States is experiencing the deadliest year for tornadoes in nearly six decades, but top US weather experts said on Monday there is no link between the violent twisters and clim ...More

Himachal Pradesh has signed an agreement on Emission Reduction Purchase with World Bank, a Clean Development Mechanism Bio-Carbon Sub-Project of Himachal Pradesh under Mid Himalayan Watershed Deve ...More