March 18 (Bloomberg) -- Government negotiators are already writing off chances for a global treaty to fight climate change, nine months before the annual talks begin in Cancun, Mexico. Kunihiko Shim ...More

Water availability could be a challenging issue facing the two countries Much greater cooperation between China and India, the world's emerging economic giants, is essential for tackling pressing en ...More

A three-day climate change conference being held in Accra, Ghana, ends on Thursday. It was organized by the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance and representatives from more than 30 countries are att ...More

HELSINKI: The climate change debate should be reframed in economic and security terms ahead of a year-end UN summit in Mexico seeking a binding climate deal, the president of the Maldives said Wednesd ...More

MYSORE: The international conference on challenges facing biodiversity and environment for sustainable development which concluded here on Monday noted that parthenium and lantana are destructive weed ...More

The threat of climate change is now overwhelming the dialogue on forest policy. Forests, like other ecosystems, will be affected by temperature increase. But the dimension that is receiving much more ...More

An alternative "people's conference" on climate change in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba in April will seek to advance an international global warming referendum, organizers said on Tuesday. "The ...More

The threat of climate change is now overwhelming the dialogue on forest policy. Forests, like other ecosystems, will be affected by temperature increase. But the dimension that is receiving much more ...More

NEW DELHI: Even though the US climate bill is in doldrums, the Obama administration is going to organise the 17-country Major Economies Forum meeting in April to spur debate with the key players, such ...More

State Senators Fran Pavley, D-Santa Monica, and Christine Kehoe, D-San Diego, will be in San Diego Friday for an informational hearing on the Energy Security and Climate Change. It will be held at Scr ...More

The fate of President Obama's health care reform package is still up in the air, but he appears to be already taking on an equally challenging and contentious agenda item -- climate change legislation ...More

Western nations failed to understand how China works, says Lord Stern The "disappointing" outcome of December's climate summit was largely down to "arrogance" on the part of rich countries, accordin ...More

SYDNEY: Australia's top scientists on Monday released a "State of the Climate" report at a time of growing scepticism over climate change as a result of revelations of errors in some global scientific ...More

Cracks are appearing in the Basic group of countries — Brazil, South Africa, India and China — over leading the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the body that draws clim ...More

“[Federal climate change scientists] feel the intent of the policy is to prevent them from speaking to media,” said the document, leaked by an Environment Canada employee who asked not to be named.Pho ...More

Improved risk assessments, more scientific study and better coordination between federal and local governments are needed, the report says. Reporting from Washington The federal government has ...More

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.N. climate scientists attacked by skeptics after they published an erroneous global warming forecast won support Monday from European Union environment ministers. Climate ske ...More

The government on Monday said it would resist any move to remove R.K. Pachauri as head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change even as it accused the UN body of failing to apply established s ...More

MUMBAI: Are Kerala and neighbouring Lakshadweep islands becoming the first victims of global warming and climate change? In the last one week, temperatures across all districts in Kerala have risen to ...More

LONDON: The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is the world's leading climate change group, is expected to backtrack over its claims about how rainforests would be devastated ...More