UNITED NATIONS: Efforts to craft a comprehensive climate treaty in Copenhagen next month will certainly "yield a success," the UN's top climate official pledged on Thursday. "There is no doubt i ...More

UNITED NATIONS: Days before a crucial climate change conference in Copenhagen, the UN climate chief has exuded confidence that US President Barack Obama would "commit" reasonable targets for emissio ...More

NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday admitted what most have already accepted -- that the Copenhagen climate meet will not see any substantial deal to prevent the world from slipping towards a clim ...More

KOLKATA: The West Bengal government has written a letter to the centre asking the union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to highlight the Sundarbans issue in the Copenhagen climate summit, ...More

NEW DELHI: Do not expect anything much from next month's climate summit in Copenhagen, environment minister Jairam Ramesh said Thursday, reiterating that India is not going to accept any legally bindi ...More

Family planning, reproductive healthcare and gender relations could influence the future course of climate change and affect how humanity adapts to rising seas, worsening storms and severe droughts, ...More

Shimla, November 19 With an early departure of migratory birds from the Pong Dam and untimely blooming of rhododendron flowers in February acting as alarm signals, scientists and environmentalists to ...More

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot today expressed concern over climate change and called for a collective endeavour by countries all over the world to control the global phenomenon. "Climate chang ...More

Less than a month before the all important Copenhagen summit, India appears to have given up hope on to how to bridge the great climate divide that exists between the developed and developing nations. ...More

Nov. 19. Ahead of the much-anticipated Copenhagen Summit, Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday stated that the government will not agree on any legally-binding agreement on emission cu ...More

Shimla, November 19 Chief Secretary Asha Swaroop said the forest planning and development projects in the Himalayan region needed to be altered to address the likely impact of climate change to minim ...More

LONDON: The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the UN Population Fund said W ...More

Shimla, November 18 Forest ministers of three western Himalayan mountain states will discuss ways and means to combat the impact of climate change during the three-day "National conference on forestr ...More

LONDON: Women bear the brunt of drought, rising seas, melting glaciers and other effects of climate change but are mostly ignored in the debate over how to halt it, the United Nations Population Fund ...More

WASHINGTON: The US Senate will act in early 2010 on legislation to battle climate change, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday, ending hopes of a breakthrough by next month's gl ...More

NEW DELHI: Munni Rawat, a 50-year-old homemaker in Uttarakhand state in the Himalayas, does not know about the climate summit in Copenhagen next month. But she does know that climate change has drie ...More

The fabulously beautiful coral reefs might be lost forever unless global emissions are immediately slashed by 25 percent, below 2000 levels. This is the grim warning by some of the world's foremos ...More

SYDNEY: The fabulously beautiful coral reefs might be lost forever unless global emissions are immediately slashed by 25%, below 2000 levels. This is the grim warning by some of the world's foremo ...More

NEW DELHI: Leave aside a binding agreement on climate change, the 190-country Copenhagen conference on December 7 is unlikely to throw up even a political statement of high-sounding sentiments on th ...More

Women farmers, particularly in poor countries will be worst hit by climate change as they make up the larger share of the agricultural work force and also because they have fewer access to income-earn ...More