The Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change has approved the Green India Mission, which targets 5 million hectare improvement in forest and tree cover besides adding another 5 million hectare to ex ...More

MELBOURNE: Global warming is "likely" to reduce rainfall in the western Australian states, according to a top climate change official of the country today. "The evidence is very strong that there ...More

WASHINGTON: Fifty million "environmental refugees" will flood into the global north by 2020, fleeing food shortages sparked by climate change, experts warned at a major science conference that ended h ...More

MELBOURNE: Global warming is "likely" to reduce rainfall in the western Australian states, according to a top climate change official of the country today. "The evidence is very strong that there ...More

WASHINGTON: Fifty million "environmental refugees" will flood into the global north by 2020, fleeing food shortages sparked by climate change, experts warned at a major science conference that ended h ...More

Global warming is "likely" to reduce rainfall in the western Australian states, according to a top climate change official of the country on Monday. "The evidence is very strong that there is a clima ...More

Mumbai, Feb. 21: Foreseeing a huge demand for trained professionals in areas of clean energy and carbon control in Indian companies, the University of Edinburgh is in discussions with several publ ...More

THE BAN worked for a while. Polythene bags, which have become an integral part of our daily lives, were all of a sudden missing from the stores of Delhi. Delhiites, although acknowledging the clim ...More

A three-day-long international conference on the Plant Science and Post Genomic Era (PSPGE) was held in the Sambalpur University (SU) participated by eminent scientists from across the world. Sourc ...More

Climate change and global warming have emerged as major threats for biodiversity. Biologists must come forward to suggest effective measures for conservation of biodiversity. AK Bhatnagar, scientist ...More

NEW DELHI: Human beings may be partially to blame for the increasing intensity of rain and snowstorms, says a new climate study published on Thursday. This is the first time human-induced rise in ...More

Two-day seminar on “Biodiversity: Challenges and Opportunities” begins at MDU Climate change and global warming have emerged as major threats to biodiversity and biologists must come forward to ...More

NEW DELHI: Human beings may be partially to blame for the increasing intensity of rain and snowstorms, says a new climate study published on Thursday. This is the first time human-induced rise in ...More

Eminent scientist and Professor of Botany, University of Delhi, Prof A K Bhatnagar on Friday said that climate change and the phenomenon of global warming have emerged as major threats for biodiversit ...More

The Delhi government will engage in a two-day brainstorming process with the best in the business on climate change mitigation and get a closer look at what other states are doing towards sustainable ...More

MADURAI: A day-long painting exhibition titled ‘Mann – Manitham kappom' (Let us save both earth and humanism) held here on Monday at Madura College highlighted on one of the most pressing issues in ...More

BANGALORE: The former Chief Secretary and Adviser to the Chief Minister, A. Ravindra, on Monday said the Centre for Sustainable Development (CSD) has been entrusted with the task of preparing a State- ...More

In the cause of environmental conservation the power of the visual media in sensitising audiences and calling them to act has long been recognised. Films that illustrate the beauty of the natural worl ...More

OSLO/LONDON: The icy winters suffered by Europe and North America for the last two years contrast with unusually mild weather in the Arctic, in a pattern first noted by a Danish missionary in Greenl ...More

ANCHORAGE, Alaska: Pacific walrus need additional protection from the threat of climate warming but cannot be added to the threatened or endangered list because other species are a higher priority, ...More