KOCHI: World Maritime Day celebrations were organised here on Tuesday with the judge of the Kerala High Court Thottathil Radhakrishnan as the chief guest at the function. Organised by the National ...More

UNITED NATIONS: United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared that his country is a serious partner in combating global warming, telling world peers “we are determined to act.” “The journ ...More

UNITED NATIONS: President Barack Obama on Tuesday warned time is running out to fight global warming but said the US was determined to act and that climate was the biggest issue in its ties with count ...More

Obama noted that US had tried to downplay the crisis before but now recognised its gravity. Some 100 heads of state gathered at the United Nations on Tuesday for an unprecedented daylong conference o ...More

India has said it is ready to play an “active” role in crafting a new global accord on combating climate change. “We are not part of the problem but we want to be part of the solution,” Environment mi ...More

UNITED NATIONS: President Barack Obama on Tuesday warned time is running out to fight global warming but said the US was determined to act and that climate was the biggest issue in its ties with count ...More

UNITED NATIONS: Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday announced four measures that China would adopt to further integrate action on climate change into its economic and social development plan. Firs ...More

A 13-year-old Indian girl, speaking on behalf of the world’s three billion children, asked world leaders here, including the Presidents of United States and China, for urgent action on climate change. ...More

LONDON: About 300 environmentalists converged on parliament on Monday and chanted "tick! tick! tick! tick!" to symbolise a wake-up call to world leaders ahead of December's U.N. climate summit in Cope ...More

LONDON: Greenhouse gas emissions have fallen thanks to the global downturn, handing the world a chance to move away from high-carbon growth, a report said on Monday, citing an International Energy Age ...More

LONDON: Greenhouse gas emissions have fallen thanks to the global downturn, handing the world a chance to move away from high-carbon growth, a report said on Monday, citing an International Energy Age ...More

LONDON: About 300 environmentalists converged on parliament on Monday and chanted "tick! tick! tick! tick!" to symbolise a wake-up call to world leaders ahead of December's U.N. climate summit in Cope ...More

NEW YORK: Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen, who has been named the goodwill ambassador of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) for climate change, has asked developing countries including China and ...More

PARIS: Two-thirds of the world's major deltas, home to nearly half a billion people, are caught in the scissors of sinking land and rising seas,according to a study published on Sunday. The new fi ...More

PARIS: Researchers from a broad swathe of disciplines are strangely ill at ease when asked about fellow scientist James Lovelock, whose improbable career has just entered its seventh decade. Chemi ...More

JAIPUR: Environmentalists, academicians and experts attending a sensitisation workshop on climate change here earlier this week called for evolving an urgent “multi-faceted response” to tackle the har ...More

Sonepat, September 19 Dr NS Saxena, director general, NTPI, Faridabad, has stressed the need for environment friendly solutions like energy conservation and widespread use of renewal of energy to com ...More

PARIS: Researchers from a broad swathe of disciplines are strangely ill at ease when asked about fellow scientist James Lovelock, whose improbable career has just entered its seventh decade. Chemi ...More

NEW DELHI: In what could turn into a deal-breaker at the climate talks, US and other industrialized countries in the Major Economies Forum meet at Washington this week told India that they wanted to d ...More

| WASHINGTON: The United States' top climate official said there had been a "narrowing of differences" after a meeting of the world's 17 top polluters that are critical to reaching any intern ...More