NEW DELHI: The G77 won a big round at the UN climate negotiations that began on Monday at Bangkok with US backing down from its threat to block negotiations unless the line between industrialized coun ...More

PANAJI: “The State Tourism Department must have an environment and beach ecology protection plan and programme in place to prevent damage to beaches, both, natural and manmade,” GOACAN, a body working ...More

NEW DELHI: Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday asserted that “India will walk out” of the Copenhagen Climate Change summit to be held in December this year if the Weste ...More

Sept. 29: Receding glaciers and mounting pressure on the Himalayan ecosystem — both due to geological reasons and climate change — has set the alarm bells ringing. Keeping in view the vulnerability of ...More

LONDON: Global temperatures may be 4°C hotter by the mid-2050s if current greenhouse gas emissions trends continue, said a study published on Monday. The study, by Britain’s Met Office Hadley Cent ...More

BANGKOK: The UN climate chief warned Monday that time was running out to break a deadlock on a global warming pact, telling delegates in Bangkok that failure to do so by December would threaten future ...More

WASHINGTON: As part of Obama Administration's clean technology initiatives, the 'US Trade and Development Agency' has announced USD half a million grant to reduce methane emission in the coal mines of ...More

A team of scientists here have discovered 850 new species of animals in the underground water and caves of the Australian Outback. The species of invertebrates like spiders, insects, and worms cam ...More

Mandi, September 27 The hype over the Himalayan glaciers beating a retreat that has sounded alarm bells countrywide is over, if we trust scientists. The receding glaciers in Ladakh, Lahaul valley, Ga ...More

ANANTAPUR: It is the people living in the Deccan Plateau area who are likely to face the vagaries of climate change first in South Asia, former chairman of Karnataka Agriculture Board and former Vice ...More

Sept. 25: India has asked the G-20 leadership to commit itself to an equitable, balanced and comprehensive deal on climate change at Copenhagen in December. "A strong political message from the G-20 l ...More

FILE: Singh said there is no agreement on the rules of the game as to how this burden sharing needs to be brought about. Saying that he was not an "astrologer", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on ...More

Pittsburgh: Known today for the decimation of its traditional economy by globalisation, this former steel town in western Pennsylvania where the summit of G20 major economies gets under way on Thursda ...More

CHENNAI: India should explore all energy sources and a paradigm shift is needed in the approach to energy sustainability, according to Baldev Raj, Director, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, K ...More

As the Climate Change Summit at the UN concluded, Bangladesh today expressed confidence in the two regional giants, China and India, to act responsibly in dealing with the issue. "I believe that b ...More

OSLO: Scientists are surprised at how extensively coastal ice in Antarctica and Greenland is thinning, according to a study Wednesday that could help predict rising sea levels linked to climate change ...More

LONDON: A British conservationist says pandas should be allowed to go extinct because they are "extraordinarily expensive to keep going" and may be surviving at the cost of other species and rainfores ...More

LONDON: A British conservationist says pandas should be allowed to go extinct because they are "extraordinarily expensive to keep going" and may be surviving at the cost of other species and rainfores ...More

BANGALORE: An apolitical group of policy makers, politicians and experts has suggested to the Government to take steps for evolving a State-level “Climate Change Action Plan” for mitigating the effect ...More

United Nations: Blamed for the deadlock in climate change talks along with China, India has said it will be a “deal-maker” and not a “deal-breaker.” Ahead of the United Nations climate summit of wor ...More