UNITED NATIONS: Stressing that failed action on climate change could have catastrophic consequences, UN Chief Ban Ki-moon has asked the United States to take a leading role in ensuring a successful ou ...More

NEW DELHI: Australia on Thursday decided to scale up its collaboration with India in science and research by pledging over $70 million in areas straddling energy, agriculture and environment. Aust ...More

JAKARTA: Greenpeace activists from around the world chained themselves to excavators in a logged peatland forest in Indonesia on Thursday to demand more US action to stop deforestation. Fifty acti ...More

NEW DELHI: Australia on Thursday decided to scale up its collaboration with India in science and research by pledging over $70 million in areas straddling energy, agriculture and environment. Aust ...More

WASHINGTON: With the clock ticking on the high-stakes Copenhagen climate summit, US President Barack Obama will try to salvage fading hopes for a deal as he meets this month with the leaders of China ...More

NEW DELHI: Dhaka, Manila, Jakarta and Kolkata are topping a new list of major Asian cities vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Kolkata is the fourth most vulnerable Asian city but number thre ...More

JAKARTA: Greenpeace activists from around the world chained themselves to excavators in a logged peatland forest in Indonesia on Thursday to demand more US action to stop deforestation. Fifty acti ...More

GENEVA: The World Council of Churches on Thursday called on churches around the world to ring their bells 350 times during the Copenhagen climate change summit on December 13 as a call to action on gl ...More

Australia will make an investment of around USD 70 million in India for research- enabling green technology to combat the challenges both countries face in energy, water, health and environment fields ...More

WASHINGTON: A new research by a scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology has determined that reducing greenhouse gases may not be enough to slow down global warming, and policymakers would nee ...More

WASHINGTON: A new research by a scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology has determined that reducing greenhouse gases may not be enough to slow down global warming, and policymakers would nee ...More

TAWANG (Arunachal Pradesh): Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama today asked people to preserve environment and work for development of religion,health and education. Expressing concern over climat ...More

Calcutta figures high on the list of Asian cities most vulnerable to climate change in a report to be released on Thursday by WWF-International in Gland, Switzerland. On a day when all eyes were on ...More

NEW DELHI: Marginalised groups, especially women, who are heavily dependent on natural resources for their livelihood are bearing the brunt of climate change that hardly affects those staying in citie ...More

BEIJING: Rising temperatures will expose China's Yangtze River basin to extreme weather such as severe floods, drought and storms that could threaten cities such as Shanghai, a new report has said. ...More

TAWANG (Arunachal Pradesh): Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama today asked people to preserve environment and work for development of religion, health and education. Expressing concern over clima ...More

PARIS: Global warming has been blamed for the alarming loss of ice shelves in Antarctica, but a new study says newly-exposed areas of sea are now soaking up some of the carbon gas that causes the prob ...More

Nigeria will introduce a total ban on gas flaring, the environmentally hazardous practice of burning gas extracted together with oil, a top government official has said. Nigeria's minister of stat ...More

DORKING, England: The pickers working their way along the hillside, clipping bunches of small, dark purple grapes from the rows of vines and dropping them into plastic buckets are harbingers of a warm ...More

SYDNEY: Australia's koalas could be extinct in 30 years, conservationists warned on Tuesday, calling for the iconic creatures to be declared an endangered species. The Australian Koala Foundation ...More