Nearly 30 years ago, scientists developed a computer model of the Earth's climate that predicted the level of global warming - to the ridicule of 'sceptics' at a time when there still seemed to be a d ...More

Recent decades have witnessed steady shrinking of arctic sea ice, which in effect has damaged the livelihoods of indigenous people and also of wildlife like polar bears. It has also resulted in openin ...More

Wearing used rubber gloves, Manthalesh sifts syringes, blood bags, and empty glucose bottles from a heap of garbage. After segregating the harmful medical waste, she puts the items in black polythene ...More

Wearing used rubber gloves, Manthalesh sifts syringes, blood bags, and empty glucose bottles from a heap of garbage. After segregating the harmful medical waste, she puts the items in black polythene ...More

An estimated 1.7 million children between the ages of one and five years die each year due to pollution, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a new report on Monday. Toxic air, contaminated gr ...More

New Delhi: More than one in four deaths of children under five years age can be attributed to unhealthy environments and every year environmental risks like indoor and outdoor air pollution, second-ha ...More

More than one in four deaths in children under five are linked to polluted environments, according to two new World Health Organization reports published Monday. Each year, environmental risks such a ...More

Recent decades have witnessed steady shrinking of arctic sea ice, which in effect has damaged the livelihoods of indigenous people and also of wildlife like polar bears. It has also resulted in open ...More

There's good and bad news for people, and polar bears, threatened by the Arctic's vanishing sea ice, scientists said Monday. First the good news: summer ice cover is "virtually certain" to survive if ...More

Nearly 30 years ago, scientists developed a computer model of the Earth's climate that predicted the level of global warming - to the ridicule of 'sceptics' at a time when there still seemed to be a d ...More

More than one in four deaths in children under five are linked to polluted environments, according to two new World Health Organization reports published Monday. Each year, environmental risks such a ...More

Nearly 30 years ago, scientists developed a computer model of the Earth's climate that predicted the level of global warming - to the ridicule of 'sceptics' at a time when there still seemed to be a d ...More

New Delhi: More than one in four deaths of children under five years age can be attributed to unhealthy environments and every year environmental risks like indoor and outdoor air pollution, second-ha ...More

Wearing used rubber gloves, Manthalesh sifts syringes, blood bags, and empty glucose bottles from a heap of garbage. After segregating the harmful medical waste, she puts the items in black polythene ...More

The heat wave that killed around 2,500 people in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in the last week of May 2015 is directly attributable to climate change. Global warming has increased the likelihood of su ...More

Every year, environmental risks – such as indoor and outdoor air pollution, second-hand smoke, unsafe water, lack of sanitation, and inadequate hygiene – take the lives of 1.7 million children under 5 ...More

London: Seven in 10 Americans believe global warming is happening, but less than half think it will harm them personally, a new Yale University study estimates. Most Americans, however, are still w ...More

Today is World Wildlife Day, designated so by the United Nations General Assembly on 20th December 2013, marking the day when the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna ...More

Washington, March 3 (IANS) Scientists have discovered a major hotspot hosting more than 1.5 million Adelie penguins near the Antarctic Peninsula.Based on direct ground counts and computer-automated co ...More

Climate change is stirring life in the Arctic Ocean as thinning sea ice lets in more sunlight, allowing microscopic algae to bloom in the inhospitable region around the North Pole, scientists said on ...More