UNITED NATIONS: 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 acc ...More

NEW DELHI: The percentage of Indian CEOs, who are concerned about the risks of climate change, has nearly doubled over the past year, even as majority of firms do not currently have a climate ...More

NEW DELHI: Terming the environment ministry's recent report on non-receding of Himalayan glaciers as false complacency, a research foundation on ecology claimed the findings were misleading. Navda ...More

DHAKA: Bangladesh said Tuesday it would need 10 billion dollars from rich countries in the next four years to offset the effects of climate change -- double its original estimate. The government h ...More

SYDNEY: Australia's Great Barrier Reef has only a 50% chance of survival if global CO2 emissions are not reduced at least 25% by 2020, a coalition of Australia's top reef and climate scientists said o ...More

SEOUL, South Korea: South Korea announced its first greenhouse gas reduction target Tuesday, pledging to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases by 4% below 2005 levels by 2020. ...More

NEW DELHI: Terming the environment ministry's recent report on non-receding of Himalayan glaciers as false complacency, a research foundation on ecology claimed the findings were misleading. Nav ...More

DHAKA: Bangladesh said Tuesday it would need 10 billion dollars from rich countries in the next four years to offset the effects of climate change -- double its original estimate. The government ...More

SYDNEY: Australia's Great Barrier Reef has only a 50% chance of survival if global CO2 emissions are not reduced at least 25% by 2020, a coalition of Australia's top reef and climate scientists said ...More

SEOUL, South Korea: South Korea announced its first greenhouse gas reduction target Tuesday, pledging to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases by 4% below 2005 levels by 2020 ...More

NEW DELHI: The percentage of Indian CEOs, who are concerned about the risks of climate change, has nearly doubled over the past year, even as majority of firms do not currently have a climate change ...More

ROME: The United Nations opened its world food summit on Monday by saying that a climate change deal in Copenhagen next month is crucial to fighting global hunger as rising temperatures threat ...More

ROME: The United Nations opened its world food summit on Monday by saying that a climate change deal in Copenhagen next month is crucial to fighting global hunger as rising temperatures threaten farm ...More

NEW DELHI: Black carbon in the atmosphere is an issue of concern but it can't be linked to melting of glaciers or global warming, leading climate expert R K Pachauri today said, dismissing fears tha ...More

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that he was 'disappointed' after US President Barack Obama and China's Hu Jintao agreed to not set targets for emissions reduction. "I'm disap ...More

A binding international treaty to limit greenhouse gas emissions will slip to mid-2010 or beyond and a summit in Copenhagen next month will fall short of its ambitions, the United Nations and Denmark ...More

NEW DELHI: Black carbon in the atmosphere is an issue of concern but it can't be linked to melting of glaciers or global warming, leading climate expert R K Pachauri today said, dismissing fea ...More

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has only a 50 per cent chance of survival if global CO2 emissions are not reduced at least 25 per cent by 2020, a coalition of Australia's top reef and climate scientist ...More

Scientists will this week warn that Italy may be forced to import the basic ingredients for pasta, its national food, because climate change will make it impossible to grow durum wheat. In a repor ...More

Shimla, November 15 Originally planned to bring about 10,000 hectares of non-arable and degraded forest land under green cover, the World Bank-assisted bio-carbon project has been pruned to almost ha ...More