CANBERRA (Australia): Prime Minister Julia Gillard said today her government would decide next year how to charge Australia's major polluters for the carbon gases that they emit in a bid to curb the ...More

CANBERRA (Australia): Prime Minister Julia Gillard said today her government would decide next year how to charge Australia's major polluters for the carbon gases that they emit in a bid to curb the ...More

The UN Climate Change Conference begins in Cancun Monday, where leaders of 194 countries would discuss their future commitments to reduce emissions and take action against climate change. The co ...More

An early spell of snow in the higher reaches and wide spread rains in the lower areas have brought down the mercury creating ideal conditions for the start of ice-skating season at Asia’s oldest n ...More

MUMBAI: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said here on Sunday that he had a few objectives to consider while giving clearance to the Jaitapur nuclear power complex. “I ...More

Participants in next week's UN climate conference in Mexico need to agree on financing and technology transfer arrangements to help developing nations reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, China's ...More

BRUSSLES: Warning that failure in Cancun could derail the entire United Nations process of climate change, European Union Commissioner for Climate Change Connie Hedegaard has stated that the world can ...More

The US and other countries must recognise the threat represented by the massive floods that hit Pakistan earlier this year and increase preparation for a growing number of natural disasters caused by ...More

Research questioning the validity of global warming was allegedly lifted from Wikipedia and textbooks, it has emerged. A report by statistician Edward Wegman criticised earlier research led by scient ...More

A top Obama administration official has praised India's role on climate change negotiations saying that the country, an important voice of the developing world, has shown both "commitment" and "willin ...More

Punjab is all set to build a healthy environment brick by brick. Punjab State Council for Science and Technology (PSCST) with the support of United Nations Development Programme's Global Environment F ...More

The Haryana Government is formulating a policy on climate change, setting up an eco-city and has taken a number of concrete measures to tap renewable and clean energy sources and promote energy-effici ...More

CHENNAI: A sea level rise by even one metre in 2050 will have a serious impact on infrastructure, wetlands and lands along the Tamil Nadu coast line, says a study by the Centre for Development Finance ...More

IMPHAL, Nov 19 – A new directive of the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MEF) report has categorised Northeastern States and three other regions – Himalayan, Coastal and Western Ghats of the countr ...More

India's reduction in emission intensity of gross domestic product (GDP) will be higher than 20-25 per cent by the year 2020 from 2005 levels, the target which it had set during the Copenhagen Summit, ...More

Nedumbassery: Aiming to achieve the ambitious targets set to combat climate change, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called upon the Second Ministerial Conference on Global Envir ...More

The Energy and Resources Institute held the third Environment Educators' Conference in the Capital earlier this month. Titled “Participatory approach towards environment education: Stakeholder's perce ...More

BANGALORE: Carbon credit has brought a virtual windfall to many green industries as predicted. But not many knew that this could also bring taxmen knocking on their doors. In a move that has nationw ...More

Noted spiritual guru and founder of Art of Living Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Tuesday stressed the need of adopting vegetarian food habits to save environment from further degradation. “Even if 10 per cen ...More

NEW DELHI: Ahead of the UN climate change meet in Cancun, representatives including ministers from over 50 nations will gather here for a two-day conference beginning tomorrow to deliberate on mechani ...More