It's been a rough week for environmentalists. Green groups had expected to spend the week on the offensive, trying to beef up a comprehensive climate change bill written by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass ...More

India's prime minister warned South Asian leaders on Wednesday that they must work in unison to quicken the pace of their development or risk being left behind, as a $300 million fund to reduce pove ...More

University climate research involves scholars in fields ranging from Earth science to engineering, law and social sciences to public health, and agriculture to the humanities and art. Collaboration ha ...More

THIMPHU: With the more vulnerable Bangladesh and Maldives seeking firmer commitments to combat climate change, a watered down declaration was issued at the end of the 16th summit of the South Asian ...More

NEW DELHI: As the BASIC nations stick to equity as a basis for future talks, former chief climate negotiator Shyam Saran expressed doubts over the fate of Kyoto Protocol which seeks binding emission c ...More

THIMPU: The 16th SAARC summit began in Thimpu today with heads of eight South Asian countries seeking a joint initiative to tackle climate change threats and also boost trade and regional cooperation ...More

MUMBAI: ITC Hotels has set a precedence by possibly becoming the first hospitality chain in the world to have earned carbon credits. Its luxury property, ITC Sonar in Kolkata, which switched to energy ...More

A new opinion poll in Australia by the Greens Party shows the majority of voters support a carbon levy to cut emissions. About 70 per cent of those surveyed said they want the Federal Government t ...More

The 1995 Chicago heat wave was one of the most brutal weather events the United States has ever experienced. On July 13, the thermostat hit 106 degrees. Many of the city's poor and elderly residents h ...More

Why should it take another stupid made-up holiday like Earth Day for society to collectively realize we have not done much green living in our lives and need to do something about Earth’s rising tempe ...More

There’ll be no delay in pushing through a green energy revolution if the Conservatives win power, senior shadow cabinet figures tell me. Greg Clark, the Tories shadow energy and climate change ministe ...More

Running into six pages and 36 paragraphs, this declaration, accessed exclusively by SHUBHAJIT ROY , will be adopted by the SAARC heads on Thursday. The key points: * The leaders noted Bangladesh's ...More

LAHORE: The journalists of South Asia, after having met at the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Journalists Summit-V on Tuesday vowed to save the planet, the South Asian regi ...More

The last two years have seen a flurry of reports projecting India’s long-term greenhouse gas emissions trajectory. Most of the reports talk of the huge emissions-saving potential in all sectors of the ...More

At its third meeting in Cape Town, the BASIC group sought to re-establish its developing country credentials. The four advanced developing countries made it clear that their forum was firmly anchore ...More

Following the near collapse of the UN climate negotiations in December and the seeming paralysis of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in March, the whole idea of solv ...More

Robert Myers spends a lot of time hiking and fishing in state forests, "places where my grandfather went hunting," he says. But the hiking grounds for this Lock Haven, Pa., English professor and loca ...More

A National Institutes of Health working group has highlighted 11 key categories of diseases and other health consequences that are occurring, or are expected to occur soon, due to climate change. I ...More

The 16th SAARC summit began in Thimphu today with heads of eight South Asian countries seeking a joint initiative to tackle climate change threats and also boost trade and regional cooperation among S ...More

Foreign ministers of eight South Asian nations met in Bhutan on Tuesday to discuss ways to jointly fight climate change, start a $300 million development fund for infrastructure and sign a trade agree ...More