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

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 internati ...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

LONDON: Giving contraceptives to people in developing countries could help fight climate change by slowing population growth, experts said on Friday. More than 200 million women worldwide want con ...More

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has pressed world leaders to publicly commit here next week to reaching a global climate change deal in Copenhagen in December. "No issue better demonstrates the need for glob ...More

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has pressed world leaders to publicly commit here next week to reaching a global climate change deal in Copenhagen in December. "No issue better demonstrates the need for gl ...More

WASHINGTON: Representatives of the world's 17 biggest carbon polluters were due Thursday to kick off a week of high-level and high-stakes talks on climate change at a meeting in Washington. The ai ...More

| LOS ANGELES: The Arctic's sea ice pack thawed to its third-lowest summer level on record, up slightly from the seasonal melt of the past two years, but continuing an overall decline symptom ...More

As warming of the climate gathers alarming pace posing a danger to agriculture, greenhouse cultivation is the only answer to save crops of flowers and vegetables, experts have said. Greenhouse far ...More

LOS ANGELES: The Arctic's sea ice pack thawed to its third-lowest summer level on record, up slightly from the seasonal melt of the past two years, but continuing an overall decline symptomati ...More

NEW DELHI: Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) on Thursday notified tariff regulations for green power generated from renewable energy sources in an effort to attract new investments in ...More

GUNTUR: The People’s Watch Forum in Guntur has appealed to citizens and voluntary organisations to observe Global Climate Week from September 19 to 25 to save the earth and themselves from the adverse ...More

KOLKATA: Britain is not looking at developing countries like India to cut carbon emissions or accept caps on their emissions knowing that economic growth is their priority, said Owen Jenkins, counsell ...More

WASHINGTON: Representatives of the world's 17 biggest carbon polluters were due Thursday to kick off a week of high-level and high-stakes talks on climate change at a meeting in Washington. The ai ...More

Ozone layer alterations, prompted by climate change, will enhance ultraviolet (UV) radiation in the tropics and Antarctica, according to a discovery by physicists. “Climate change is an establishe ...More

Hit by crop failure due to increased salinity through sea water surge, farmers of the cyclone-hit villages of the Sundarbans areas are now reverting to cultivation of traditional low-yield paddy in th ...More

India on Wednesday attributed the success of the Montreal Protocol on Ozone depleting substance to the principle of 'common but differentiated responsibility and respective challenges' being agreed ...More

Ban inquired about India's views on climate change in terms of the developments at the national level. Ahead of a key climate summit next week, a senior Indian official has met UN Secretary-General ...More

Over 400 million people in India have no access to electricity and providing this is an obvious priority for planners. But producing electricity from coal - the main source now - adds to global warmin ...More

A global warming of two degrees Celsius -- the minimum the world is likely to experience -- could result in permanent GDP reductions of four-five percent for South Asia, warns a new World Bank report. ...More