PARIS: Current pledges from rich and developing nations for cutting carbon pollution will stoke potentially catastrophic warming by century’s end, according to a study released on Sunday on the eve of ...More

GUWAHATI, Dec 6 – While several time zones away global leaders prepare to confront the challenge of climate change, nestled in a mega biodiversity zone Assam treats its natural environment with dis ...More

Key Climate negotiator and distinguished fellow at Teri, Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, who along with Dr Pradipto Ghosh, had declined to go to Copenhagen, reversed the decision following a lengthy meeting ...More

Dec. 6: As over 15,000 visitors descend on the city of 5.2 million to talk climate over the next 12 days and more than 100 heads of state or government expected to visit towards the end, the expectati ...More

At a time when they are not short of pressing problems to deal with, the presence of 100-odd world leaders at the two-week meeting that starts in Copenhagen on December 7th to renew the Kyoto protocol ...More

Delegates were converging for the grand finale of two years of tough, sometimes bitter negotiations on a climate change treaty, as UN officials calculated that pledges offered in the last few weeks to ...More

COPENHAGEN: Driven by an ever-louder drumbeat of alarm, the world's nations come together on Monday in a bid to lift the curse of climate change hanging over coming generations. In the brief histo ...More

KATHMANDU: More than a billion people in Asia depend on Himalayan glaciers for water, but experts say they are melting at an alarming rate,threatening to bring drought to large swathes of the continen ...More

PARIS: Carbon dioxide indirectly causes up to 50% more global warming than originally thought, a finding that raises questions over targets for stabilising carbon emissions over the long term, a study ...More

NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has criticised the Manmohan Singh government’s stand on climate change stating that Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh had ov ...More

NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley has charged that Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh had in fact rubbished India’s consistent position on climate change and “endorsed the principl ...More

KATHMANDU: More than a billion people in Asia depend on Himalayan glaciers for water, but experts say they are melting at an alarming rate, threatening to bring drought to large swathes of the contine ...More

COPENHAGEN: Driven by an ever-louder drumbeat of alarm, the world's nations come together on Monday in a bid to lift the curse of climate change hanging over coming generations. In the brief histo ...More

Citing steps by India and China and an emerging plan to help developing countries mitigate impacts with $10 billion a year, President Barack Obama has delayed his appearance in Copenhagen in the hope ...More

It is now fairly obvious, that despite the efforts which will be put in by the vast majority of developing countries during the remaining negotiating time at the Danish capital, a comprehensive and le ...More

Lalmohan is worried where he'll find Bon Bibi after the forest she dwells in is swallowed by the sea. Darayas Master is anxious about the holy fire his Parsi ancestors brought to Sanjan from Iran. But ...More

GUWAHATI, Dec 4 – With only a few days to go before the Copenhagen Conference on climate change opens, experts have underlined the acute need for an effective action plan in Assam. Their fears are ...More

LOS BANOS, Philippines: Asian rice farmers typically do not fly around the world on holidays or own big-engine cars but scientists say they have an important role to play in helping cut the world's ou ...More

Ahead of a key UN summit to discuss climate change, Nepalese government today held a historic cabinet meeting at the Mount Everest base camp to highlight the impact of global warming on the Himalayas. ...More

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will attend the Copenhagen Summit on climate change on December 18, reflecting the seriousness attached by India to the meet where it is expected to play a crucial role. ...More