LONDON: With the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its chairman Rajendra Pachauri facing criticism for the Himalayan glacier blunder, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, the IPCC’s deputy lea ...More

BANGALORE: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has goofed up so badly on its Himalayan glacier melting forecast that it's close to losing credibility among the people. But The Energy and ...More

Washington: Barack Obama is to respond to last week’s shock Senate election defeat by using Wednesday’s state of the union speech to scale back his ambitious legislative programme and instead focus on ...More

NEW DELHI: Global warming has the world's richest man very worried, but for a different reason. Bill Gates, who has now taken to full time philanthropy, is worried that financial commitments bei ...More

NEW DELHI, Jan 24 – BASIC nations – India, Brazil, South Africa and China – today said they would stick to the January 31 deadline and communicate information on voluntary mitigation actions to the UN ...More

LONDON: Amid a possible new row for 'wrongly' linking global warming to a rise in natural disasters, the UN climate panel has underlined that it was reassessing the evidence for surge in hurricanes an ...More

NEW DELHI: Officials from Brazil, South Africa, India and China (BASIC countries) met here on Sunday and indicated their support to the Copenhagen Accord on climate change. The officials from the ...More

India will stick to the January 31 deadline of disclosing its voluntary mitigation actions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC. And New Delhi is not alone in fulfi ...More

NEW DELHI: The head of the UN's climate science panel said Saturday that a doomsday prediction about the fate of Himalayan glaciers was "a regrettable error." Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the No ...More

Notwithstanding the brouhaha on Himalayan glacier melting misinformation, beleaguered chairperson of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, R K Pachauri, has asserted that he would not quit ...More

To determine the road ahead on the climate change minefield, environment ministers from Brazil, South Africa, India and China (BASIC) will meet here on Sunday to take the first post-Copenhagen step to ...More

NEW DELHI: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chairman R K Pachauri on Saturday termed as a "human error" the findings in its report about melting of Himalayan glaciers, but ruled out his resig ...More

The increasing global temperature may spell doom for the Sunderban tigers as a WWF study has cautioned that rise of 28 centimetre in sea levels will engulf 96 per cent of their habitat. The find ...More

CHENNAI: Over 250 representatives of various non-governmental organisations from north Tamil Nadu took part in the National Environmental Awareness Campaign organised by the C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Found ...More

The State Government have constituted a State Climate Change Cell at Environmental Planning Coordination Organisation (EPCO) Bhopal to carry out information and knowledge related environmental works. ...More

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is under fire for having said glaciers in the Himalayas will disappear by 2035, but farmers in Kashmir are sure the valley's biggest glacier is receding a ...More

Himalayan glaciers are retreating, and small glaciers will probably disappear by the end of the century, the UN body in charge of the Himalayas said on Friday. It was commenting on another UN repo ...More

India and China are almost certain to sign the Copenhagen Accord, especially since Brazil and South Africa have already done so, say senior officials. Environment ministers of the four countries will ...More

Environment Ministers from BASIC nations comprising Brazil, South Africa, India and China will meet in the capital on Sunday to discuss the post Copenhagen scenario on climate change. The meeting ...More

NEW DELHI: India's eight ambitious missions to address climate change may get funds in the Union Budget that will be presented in Parliament next month. "The ministries implementing the missions w ...More