BEIJING: Former US vice president Al Gore said Thursday China and the United States -- the world's biggest polluters -- should work on designing greener cities as part of their efforts to tackle cli ...More

Third World activists are often animated by an anti-colonial instinct that induces them to oppose initiatives of Western governments, especially when it comes to globalization or capitalism. And these ...More

Climate change is altering the way people, companies and governments behave. But a more fundamental —and growing—debate is about its relationship with food. Tea growers in Assam and winemakers in Fr ...More

Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology’s recently launched school in Pune will start training graduates to make climate change predictions similar to the weather forecasts available now. The first b ...More

CNG is not without environmental drawbacks says a new Central Pollution Control Board study. The study says burning CNG has the highest rates of potentially hazardous carbonyl emissions. These conclus ...More

Agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan called on Wednesday for documenting indigenous farming knowledge which coped with monsoon vagaries. In earlier days when there was no irrigation, farmers were ...More

WASHINGTON: Researchers at the University of California at Santa Cruz have found that the sediments at the bottom of the Bering Sea indicate that that the region was ice-free all year and animal lif ...More

WASHINGTON: Researchers at the University of California at Santa Cruz have found that the sediments at the bottom of the Bering Sea indicate that that the region was ice-free all year and animal lif ...More

FRANKFURT: The Haiti earthquake and floods in Pakistan and China helped make 2010 an "exceptional" year for natural disasters, killing 295,000 and costing 130 billion dollars, the world's top rein ...More

FRANKFURT: The Haiti earthquake and floods in Pakistan and China helped make 2010 an "exceptional" year for natural disasters, killing 295,000 and costing 130 billion dollars, the world's top reinsure ...More

Rains in the last week of the month have bolstered the arrival of migratory birds High pollution levels in the Yamuna, gradual disappearance of marshlands and shrinking of the Okhla Bird Sanctuary on ...More

KOLKATA: Renowned environmentalist Dr R K Pachauri said he would soon set up a unit of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in WestBengal to work on climate change impact. Pachauri, who has ...More

New Delhi, Jan. 27: Some Himalayan glaciers are melting, but others are stable and even growing, German scientists have said in a study that vindicates Indian glaciologists who had trashed predictions ...More

Lumumba Stanislaus-Kaw Di-Aping was the poor country's hero at the Copenhagen climate summit of 2009. The permanent representative of Sudan at the United Nations, and heading the G77 at Copenhagen, ...More

WASHINGTON: Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is reportedly looking for its first Communications and Media Relations Programme Manager to help it avoid a mismanaged situation like la ...More

Anantapur: As part of the initiative of Beyond Copenhagen Action against climate change, a “People's tribunal on livelihoods and climate change”, was organised by Action Fraterna for Southern States o ...More

Five more years, and Bangalore will be faced with a full blown water crisis, hitherto restricted to pockets on its outskirts. Armed with research findings, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) scientis ...More

AMSTERDAM: The agreements reached at a global conference this month to help poor countries cope with climate change exceeded expectations but need to be followed up, the UN's top climate official sa ...More

AMSTERDAM: The agreements reached at a global conference this month to help poor countries cope with climate change exceeded expectations but need to be followed up, the UN's top climate official sa ...More

SACRAMENTO,Calif: Hoping other states will follow suit, California regulators overwhelmingly approved the nation's most extensive system giving owners of power plants, refineries and other major p ...More