Let’s protect our environment. Let’s use bicycles, rickshaws and electric scooters to prevent pollution. Let’s use two-wheelers and cars only when highly necessary. Let’s stop air pollution and save o ...More

Climate change and Copenhagen may have pushed environmental issues to the fore, and garnered some media attention, but 2009 denuded the once lush green roads of Bangalore, and saw the implementation o ...More

BEIJING: China’s top legislature has adopted an amendment to the renewable energy law mandating electricity grid companies to buy all the power produced by renewable energy generators. The amendment ...More

India has said that the Copenhagen Accord endorses the view that the rich nations have the responsibility to agree to emission reduction cuts but conceded that it also opens a window for the buria ...More

MEXICO CITY: Mexico will push for a binding international agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions when it hosts the next climate change summit in Mexico City in the coming year. Mexico ...More

SUNDERBANS: Sabita Mondal, 32, Kanchan Sarkar, 28, and Saraswati Halder, 33, from Rangabelia village have become climate refugees ever since cyclone Aila hit the Sunderbans delta on May 25. Today, S ...More

ANANTAPUR: Racing along National Highway No. 7 from the Bengaluru airport towards Andhra Pradesh, the roadside vineyards give way to cragged hills, bald except for a smattering of shrubs around thei ...More

MEXICO CITY: Mexico will push for a binding international agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions when it hosts the next climate change summit in Mexico City in the coming year. Mexico seeks ...More

JOHANNESBURG: Greenpeace will keep up the pressure on leaders it believes let the world down on global warming, the head of the international environmental group said. Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace' ...More

After three centuries of relentless damage to earth's delicately balanced ecology, humanity finally appears to be waking up to the havoc it has wrought. The past decade saw the most clinching evidence ...More

JOHANNESBURG: Greenpeace will keep up the pressure on leaders it believes let the world down on global warming, the head of the international environmental group said. Kumi Naidoo, Greenpe ...More

PURI: More than a 100 Santas are spreading awareness on climate change on the beach here. The 105 Santas of different sizes and seen in different postures have been made of sand by artist ...More

PURI: More than a 100 Santas are spreading awareness on climate change on the beach here. The 105 Santas of different sizes and seen in different postures have been made of sand by artist Sudars ...More

More than a 100 Santas are spreading awareness on climate change on the beach here. The 105 Santas of different sizes and seen in different postures have been made of sand by artist Sudarshan Patt ...More

Global warming creeps across the world at a speed of a quarter of a mile each year, according to a study that highlights the problems rising temperatures pose to plants and animals. Species that can ...More

NEW DELHI: The Copenhagen Accord was a good outcome but not adequate to fight climate change, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chief RK Pachauri said on Wednesday. "We expected much more ...More

NEW DELHI: The very existence of Maldives is threatened by climate change. So for Mohammed Nasheed, its young president and now the poster boy for climate change advocacy, global warming is a "more se ...More

DHAKA: Back from the Copenhagen climate summit, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has mooted a new law that would deny bail to people responsible for rampant tree felling. The prime minist ...More

NEW DELHI: The Copenhagen Accord was a good outcome but not adequate to fight climate change, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chief RK Pachauri said on Wednesday. "We expected much mor ...More

NEW DELHI: India's reliance on coal means the country is heading for an energy crisis unless it diversifies its sources of power, the chairman of the UN's top climate change panel predicted on Wedne ...More