LONDON: 2010 is likely to be the world's warmest year on record, the British Met Office has predicted. According to the Met Office, man-made climate change will be a factor and natural weather p ...More

COPENHAGEN: Some 300 youths shrouded in black threw bricks and smashed windows as at least 30,000 people demonstrated in central Copenhagen Saturday to turn up the heat on world leaders debating globa ...More

COPENHAGEN: Danish police on Friday arrested 35 anti-capitalist climate protesters as a preventive measure due to suspicions they may commit illegal acts, a police spokesman said. The 35 Danes and ...More

COPENHAGEN: UN climate chief Yvo de Boer on Friday said European plans to contribute billions of euros to early funding on tackling global warming were a major boost to the talks unfolding in Copenhag ...More

If negotiators reach an accord at the climate talks in Copenhagen it will entail profound shifts in energy production , dislocations in how and where people live, sweeping changes in agriculture and f ...More

Midsummer rain and flood in 23 districts of Odisha in 1995, death of 2,042 people due to heat wave in the State in 1998, two devastating cyclones, flood in 2001, massive flood in 23 districts in 2003, ...More

COPENHAGEN: A key scientist says greenhouse emissions cuts on the table at UN climate talks are "clearly not enough" to assure the world it will head off dangerous global warming. Thomas Stocker, ...More

Sending encouraging signal to the rest of the world, a bipartisan group of powerful US Senators on Friday agreed on a framework for a climate change bill. "It will also send a strong message to th ...More

Think melting arctic ice caps are the biggest threat from global warming? Dangers to polar bears? Think again, and think fast. To hear film director Michael Nash and others talk, bigger issues are ...More

Veteran Cuban leader Fidel Castro lashed out Barack Obama's climate policies, accusing the US president of not fighting the ''oligarchy of irresponsibly'' who are opposing change. "Obama is not ig ...More

Aiming to open up a carbon market, the Union Cabinet on Thursday approved an amendment to the Energy Conservation Act, 2001, with the purpose of encouraging some of the heavily polluting industries to ...More

Amid hectic negotiations at a crucial meet here on dealing with the climate change, a group of global conservation organisations have come out with a book that highlights the need to save Protected Ar ...More

Amid hectic negotiations at the Copenhagen climate change meet, the Union Cabinet on Thursday finalised the brief for India's position to be adopted on the issue at the high-level talks. Sources sai ...More

Dec. 10: With environment minister Jairam Ramesh leaving for Copenhagen on Friday and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to attend the summit meeting on December 18, the government on Thursday ...More

With the US asking emerging economies to "wrap up" their national emission reduction commitments into a global pact, India on Thursday made it clear that it would not accept any internationally bindin ...More

Delegates looks at a giant globe displaying the warming of the world's ocean in the US center at the UN Climate summit. The leaked Danish draft with its sweeping set of tough conditions for countries ...More

NEW DELHI: Environment minister Jairam Ramesh said the recession of Himalayan glaciers was part of the natural cyclical process which could be attributed to various reasons, including global warming. ...More

COPENHAGEN: The impacts of climate change have worsened almost every year since 1980, according to a study on Wednesday inspired by the Dow Jones stock index that distils global warming into a single ...More

COPENHAGEN: Island nation Tuvalu led a group of developing countries in a walkout from the Dec 7-18 climate summit here Wednesday, forcing an unprecedented closure of the conference for a few hours. ...More

COPENHAGEN: The United States for the first time outlined a dual path toward cutting greenhouse gases that would involve both President Barack Obama's administration and the US Congress to reduce gree ...More