London, Nov. 10: In what can be seen as a positive impact of global warming, large blooms of tiny marine plants called phytoplankton that can absorb carbon dioxide from atmosphere are flourishing in t ...More

Large blooms of tiny marine plants called phytoplankton are flourishing in areas exposed by the recent and rapid melting of ice shelves and glaciers around the Antarctic Peninsula. This remarkab ...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

NEW DELHI: Just before starting his lecture on ‘Atmospheric Brown Clouds,’ Prof V. Ramanathan admits that people think he has come to dismantle Indian progress. The Director of the Center for Clouds ...More

Nov. 8: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the world’s major econo-mies to put in place a technology regime where developing countries would have access to clean technologies at affordable costs, ...More

LONDON: A meeting of G20 Finance Ministers at St. Andrews in Scotland on Sunday failed to reach an agreement on funding climate change as developed countries continued to dither over the amount of mon ...More

Targets and trust. These are at the heart of a tougher new global climate pact possibly just weeks away. The bigger the pledged emissions cuts or reductions in growth in carbon dioxide pollution, th ...More

Hindu leaders in the UK have joined hands with Prince Philip and the UN to launch 'Bhumi Project', an action plan to engage the community in the global fight against climate change. According to t ...More

LONDON: Britain’s Hindu leaders have launched “Bhumi Project” to fight climate change. The plan follows a conference of faith leaders organised by the Alliance of Religions and Conservation, a charit ...More

NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh on Thursday criticised the Delhi Government for its failure to treat the sewage that has been flowing into the Yamuna and po ...More

WASHINGTON: The United States and the European Union on Tuesday vowed to reduce global emission by 50% by the year 2050 and agreed to promote an "ambitious and comprehensive" international climate cha ...More

NEW DELHI: India needs to play a leadership role to adapt and mitigate the adverse impact of global warming as it is the most "vulnerable" country to climate change, Union environment minister Jairam ...More

NEW DELHI: Contending that developing nations account for a significant share in green house gas emissions, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said such countries are vital to the solution to ta ...More

ISLAMABAD: The escalating war against terrorism in Pakistan has affected migratory birds as their route has been disturbed. An unusual delay in the arrival of migratory birds to Sindh this winter ...More

Amritsar, November 5 Sikh environmental activists, Baba Sewa Singh and Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal, from Punjab were among 200 leaders who gathered at Windsor Castle, near London, to participate in a ...More

WASHINGTON: Former US Vice President Al Gore, who has campaigned relentlessly on green issues, is on track to become the world's first "carbon billionaire" amid claims of profiting from the climate ch ...More

NEW DELHI: India needs to play a leadership role to adapt and mitigate the adverse impact of global warming as it is the most "vulnerable" country to climate change, Union environment minister Jairam ...More

NEW DELHI: Sweden's premier on Thursday criticised US efforts to adopt new climate change legislation, and cast doubt on whether crucial year-end talks would result in a deal on binding carbon emissio ...More

NEW DELHI: Contending that developing nations account for a significant share in green house gas emissions, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said such countries are vital to the solution to ta ...More