The government's chief scientist has called on climate researchers to be more open when dealing with critics and transparent when they make errors. In an interview with the Guardian, John Beddingto ...More

Ahmedabad: Climate change and conflict between nations over trade practices were the main points of discussion at the opening ceremony of the International Moot Court Competition,2010,which began here ...More

Giving new direction to environmental studies, 'Climate change and voice of rural children'- a booklet on impact of climate change on Indian rural children was released by Holistic Child Development ...More

Federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice urged the energy sector and Alberta government Monday to clean up the oilsands -- and Canada's environmental reputation -- but said Ottawa will wait for the U ...More

We are getting a sense now, thanks to yesterday's release of Tony Abbott's climate policy and the afternoon's testy parliamentary exchanges, of how the climate issue will be framed in the weeks and mo ...More

When rest of the wetlands in Punjab are choking with water hyacinths and dying a slow death, the ones in Nangal and Ropar are so calm and pristine that only birds and breeze make waves in it. But it w ...More

Plans to reward eco-friendly householders for the green energy that their solar panels produce have received a muted welcome. The clean energy cashback plan, known as "feed-in tariffs", offers ince ...More

The State of Environment Report 2009, a report put out by the Union government that is meant to be an up-to-date official view on environmental issues says that “...Himalayan glaciers could disappear ...More

For Rajendra Pachauri, the ordeal is never-ending. Repeatedly being dragged in the eye of the storm for the ‘faults’ in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, the veteran scienti ...More

Credibility issues continue to dog the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The UN climate change body is now being charged that its claim on disappearing Amazonian forests is based on ...More

1 February 2010, 03:26am PUNE: The Environmental Information System (ENVIS) centre at the Indian Institute Of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, which has been disseminating Information abo ...More

Are the world and human society in general ready and willing to take action on critical issues that require a major change in the manner in which we produce and consume goods and services? AP On ...More

BASIC environment ministers have already held two meetings in Beijing and New Delhi before and after Copenhagen, and are all set to hold their third meeting in South Africa planned for April-end. I ...More

R K Pachauri, chairman of the UN panel on Climate Change, took two months to correct the report about melting Himalayan glaciers despite being informed before last year's Copenhagen Summit, a media ...More

In keeping with its pledge of adopting a low-carbon path, India has informed the UN that it will undertake voluntary cuts of its emission intensity by 20-25 per cent by 2020 but asserted that it will ...More

NEW DELHI: India is stepping up pressure on the West to act on climate change. On Saturday, the government formally conveyed to UNFCCC that India will endeavour to reduce the emission intensity of i ...More

R K Pachauri, chairman of the UN panel on Climate Change, took two months to correct the report about melting Himalayan glaciers despite being informed before last year's Copenhagen Summit, a media re ...More

BEIJING: As a Sunday target date approaches for countries to submit to the United Nations their plans for fighting climate change, China is banding together with other major developing nations to stre ...More

TORONTO: Canadian and US scientists want to block the sun to cool the earth and limit global warming. Research and field-testing on what they call "geo-engineering" of the earth's atmosphere to ...More

LONDON: The UN climate change panel based claims about ice disappearing from the world's mountain peaks on a student essay and an article in a mountaineering magazine, a British newspaper reported Sun ...More