A research team, led by Étienne Berthier of the Laboratory for Space Studies in Geophysics and Oceanography at the Université de Toulouse in France, says that glacier melt in Alaska between 1962 and 2 ...More

After the severe cyclonic storm nicknamed Aila that struck the Sunderbans island in May, triggering a massive surge of sea water, the people in this unique biosphere reserve have been fighting a grim ...More

LONDON: A British climate researcher at the centre of a row over global warming science has admitted he wrote some "pretty awful" emails to sceptics when he was refusing their requests for data. B ...More

March 3 (Bloomberg) -- The disclosure of research “missteps� hasn’t shaken the consensus that manmade emissions from burning fossil fuels are contributing to climate change, President Barack Oba ...More

LHASA: The impact of global warming is affecting the ecological environment of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, accelerating glacial shrinkage, reducing snow and increasing land desertificat ...More

Early this month, we observed the 25th anniversary of the ghastly Bhopal gas tragedy, still fresh in the minds of victims. On the other hand, at the UN Copenhagen summit, the whole world is debating t ...More

EVANSVILLE — Kohl's Department Store, which includes two stores in Evansville, is a leader in energy management and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. For it's commitment, the chain has been ...More

The scientist at the centre of the "climategate" scandal has made his strongest admission yet of errors in sending e-mails that were subsequently seized on as evidence of malpractice. "I have obvio ...More

The Budget has levied a clean energy cess on coal The clean energy cess on coal proposed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, in his budget speech, yesterday, may well be part of series of green tax ...More

It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to prot ...More

NEW DELHI: India has caught out an American attempt to go back on an agreement not to push for international “scrutiny” of voluntary attempts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, negotiated between Pri ...More

The UN is to commission an independent group of top scientists to review its climate change panel, which has been under fire since it admitted a mistake over melting Himalayan glaciers. The experts wi ...More

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has given in to the rising clamour of doubts about the preparation of its climate science reports, and will set up an independent committee of expe ...More

NEW DELHI: With the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) under attack, the UN has decided to step in to shore up the intergovernmental panel's credibility. At the UN Environment Programm ...More

The aim of the so-called 'seasonal tariff' is to preserve water supplies in the dry summer months. From June customers in Hampshire, parts of West Sussex and Medway in Kent will have new meters in ...More

Experts said here on Friday that wetlands can greatly help Vietnam cope with the impacts of climate change. The remarks were made at a conference on wetland conservation held here by the Vietnamese Ge ...More

Experts Body To Monitor Climate Panel In Wake Of Row Over Sloppy Reports Nusa Dua (Indonesia): An independent board of scientists will be appointed to review the worlds top climate science pan ...More

Governments reached agreement today to strengthen the global response to the impacts of climate change. At the close of a United Nations Environment Programme gathering in Indonesia, UNEP Executiv ...More

Awareness on measures to check global warming and climate change should be initiated at the grassroots level, said WWF State director Renjan Mathew Varghese. He was inaugurating an awareness campai ...More

Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown has condemned Kevin Rudd's decision to strip Peter Garrett of some of his ministerial powers, saying it will seriously weaken his ability to push for good environmen ...More