In an analysis of the past 1.2 million years, University of California, Santa Barbara, geologist Lorraine Lisiecki discovered a pattern that connects the regular changes of the Earth's orbital cycle t ...More

India and Pakistan are sparring over water-sharing in the Indus River basin. But some environmental experts say the ominous forces of climate change in the Himalayas might force the two countries to p ...More

Kolkata: India and Bangladesh on Sunday decided to set up a joint Sunderbans Ecosystem Forum to protect and preserve the world heritage site from the impact of climate change. Union environment minis ...More

Kolkata: Union minister of environment and forests Jairam Ramesh on Sunday announced that the Cabinet has sanctioned a special grant of Rs 450 crore for strengthening and rebuilding Sunderbans embankm ...More

Kolkata : Announcing a first-of-its-kind joint initiative of India and Bangladesh to combat climate change, Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said the two countries ar ...More

SYDNEY: For Australian farmers who have struggled to make a living in southern Queensland as their crops died and their dams ran empty during years of drought, recent floods have ended the "Big Dry". ...More

It's free, it's bright, and it's natural. Solar energy is clean, it has no side-effects, and the resource is abundantly available. It's the perfect alternative to smoke-belchers like coal. The dream r ...More

SANTA ROSA, Peru: In a far-flung corner of the Peruvian Amazon, a multinational company aims to offset carbon dioxide emissions from its factories in France by planting thousands of trees which may al ...More

Previous1 of 2 ImagesNext Edible dormouse Photo: GETTY IMAGES The edible dormouse is a relative of the endangered hazel dormouse, which is a native species in the UK Photo: GETTY The edible dormo ...More

In October of 2008, the Times reported on the burgeoning natural gas industry and the pollution and waste disposal problems that came with the boom. Since then, a lot has happened. Some of it positive ...More

International environmental activist, scientist and author Vandana Shiva lectured about food security and climate change Friday afternoon in the Belk Auditorium of the School of Business. Shiva has b ...More

Protesters carry placards as they join a rally outside the Danish parliament in the centre of Copenhagen, Denmark. PARIS: Countries gather this week in the hope of erasing bitter memories of the ...More

Whatever else it may be, Earth Hour is surely one of the most successful publicity stunts ever dreamed up. Apparently doing something virtuous, like turning off the lights, makes us feel entitled to a ...More

Posted by William R. Hawkins on Apr 5th, 2010 and filed under FrontPage. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry India h ...More

New Delhi, April 4 State Governments are warming up to the reality of climate change and have started working on the strategies. Delhi is the first and the only State to have prepared a climate chan ...More

Climate change has begun to affect human health, leading to a rise in cases related to stomach ailments and vector-borne diseases like malaria and dengue. This has been indicated in a report in the ...More

The first national regulations to cut greenhouse gas emissions aim to reduce fuel consumption in vehicles LOWER EMISSION ACCOMPLISHED: New federal standards in the U.S. will reduce greenhouse gas ...More

WASHINGTON - Signals from the White House that it's moving away from so-called cap-and-trade initiatives - a cornerstone of the Democrats' stalled climate legislation - amounts to a respite for Canada ...More

The head of the Environment Agency outlines why hospitals, supermarkets and shops must now monitor their emissions. Big non-energy intensive organisations will have to report their energy emission ...More

The Obama administration on Thursday imposed strict new environmental guidelines that are expected to sharply curtail "mountaintop" coal mining, a controversial practice that has enriched Appalachia's ...More