GUWAHATI, June 18 – A concept paper drafted for development and application of sustainable river management options for the Brahmaputra as part of a European Commission (EU)-sponsored project, laid st ...More

WASHINGTON: A new study has suggested that climate change can cause increasing and unpredictable hazard risks in mountainous regions. Researchers from University of Exeter and Austria said that th ...More

BONN-II MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THE failure that it is being made out to be.Yes,there was no negotiating text at the end of the fortnight,there was no movement on increasing ambition by the rich industriali ...More

LONDON: Britain can eliminate all its carbon emissions by 2030 by overhauling its power supply, national diet and transport, a report by the UK's Centre for Alternative Technology said on Wednesday. ...More

• LONDON: Britain can eliminate all its carbon emissions by 2030 by overhauling its power supply, national diet and transport, a report by the UK's Centre for Alternative Technology said on Wednes ...More

The State Government has come out with a draft climate change action plan in much of haste. The formulation process of this draft has not been participatory and the involvement of people of the state; ...More

U.N. climate talks have ended, with delegates speaking of an improved mood but with major gulfs remaining between various blocs. A last-minute spat between Russia and Japan and the G77 bloc of develo ...More

Guwahati: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh here over the weekend announced that a centre for studying climate change would be set up exclusively for the north-eastern ...More

HYDERABAD: A Lake Protection Authority (LPA) is on the anvil for effective protection of the water bodies in and around Hyderabad. The Law Department is seized of the matter and an Act will be in plac ...More

Nearly 60 million people living around the Himalayas will suffer food shortages in the coming decades as glaciers shrink and the water sources for crops dry up, a study said on Thursday. But Dutch sc ...More

GUWAHATI, June 11 – Assam and other States of the Northeast would gain special focus in the National Mission for a Green India or the GreenIndia Mission that seeks to improve the quality and extent of ...More

New Delhi: India has rejected calls by developed countries at the Bonn climate talks to turn its domestic emission reduction commitments into internationally binding pledges. In response to industria ...More

BONN, Germany: Many developing nations insisted at UN climate talks on Wednesday that a full UN treaty should be agreed in 2010 even though others are resigned to a far longer haul to tackle global wa ...More

BEIJING: The livelihood of thousands of Tibetans living on China's highest plateau is under threat as global warming and environmental degradation dry up water sources for three mighty Asian rivers, ...More

The Lanjigarh unit of Vedanta Aluminium Ltd has bagged the prestigious The Financial Express —Emergent Venture India (FE-EVI)’s Green Business Leadership Award in Mining and Metal Industry sector ba ...More

Punjab Governor and UT Administrator Shivraj Patil on Wednesday along with other experts discussed and emphasised on the need of creating more awareness to check environmental degradation, at an int ...More

WASHINGTON: A Republican senator has offered a scaled-back plan to fight global warming, saying it was politically unrealistic for the United States to mandate carbon emissions cuts in tough economic ...More

BEIJING: The livelihood of thousands of Tibetans living on China's highest plateau is under threat as global warming and environmental degradation dry up water sources for three mighty Asian rivers, e ...More

With little progress being made in the climate talks underway in Bonn for the past one and half weeks, India and China Wednesday stressed on the need to go back to basics and re-start the process fr ...More

WASHINGTON: A Republican senator has offered a scaled-back plan to fight global warming, saying it was politically unrealistic for the United States to mandate carbon emissions cuts in tough economic ...More