BANGALORE: Shops and establishments on Church Street and Brigade Road witnessed raids of a different kind on Wednesday. Greenpeace activists and students subjected these establishments to “energy raid ...More

PARIS: By mid-century, climate change may have outrun the ability of Africa's farmers to adapt to rising temperatures, threatening the continent's precarious food security, warns a new study. ...More

PARIS: By mid-century, climate change may have outrun the ability of Africa's farmers to adapt to rising temperatures, threatening the continent's precarious food security, warns a new study. Grow ...More

BEIJING: Climate change is making some of the poorest people in China even more destitute and undermining the development that has been a cornerstone of Communist rule, academics and campaigners said ...More

KOLKATA: Gopalkrishna Gandhi is determined to leverage the study on carbon dioxide emission in Raj Bhavan beyond his tenure as West Bengal governor. After deciding to forward the report on climate ...More

MADURAI: The link between climate change and eye complications will be studied through national level projects to be taken up by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). A separate cell on clim ...More

HYDERABAD: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has warned that the country’s economic future will be in danger unless its green cover is increased from 23 per cent to 33 ...More

MANILA: Climate change impacts such as lower crop production will have severe effects on Asia and a broader climate pact being negotiated this year is crucial to minimizing the effects, a UN official ...More

NEW DELHI: Developed countries, particularly the US, should take the lead in cutting emissions as they are mostly responsible for global warming, says environmentalist R K Pachauri who is "cautiously ...More

PARIS: Official smiles and breezy confidence were firmly on display after the latest round of UN talks that aim to build a landmark treaty on climate change. But only six months are left for compl ...More

DUNI, June 13 – Under the collaboration of Gondhmow Tourism Development Society (GTDS), the Centre for Environment Education (CEE) North East and RCE of Guwahati observed World Environment Day with ...More

BONN: Industrialized countries should be legally bound to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions "by at least 40 percent below 1990 levels in 2020", India and 36 other developing countries have p ...More

WASHINGTON: Clearing the Amazon rainforest for soy or cattle does not bring long-term social or economic benefit to local communities and threatens the environment, according to a study published on F ...More

BONN: Industrialized countries should be legally bound to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions "by at least 40 percent below 1990 levels in 2020", India and 36 other developing countries have p ...More

ROME: "The idea of same higher targets throughout the world to reduce polluting emissions is not possible," said Italy's environment minister Stefania Prestigiacomo. "However," she added," there is no ...More

NEW DELHI: Rich countries have a ‘double duty’ to both cut emissions at home while also helping to fund emissions reductions in poor countries in order to get a fair and safe climate deal, according t ...More

TOKYO: Japan unveiled plans on Wednesday for greenhouse gas cuts over the coming decade only marginally deeper than its current UN commitments, a step green groups say threatens to deal a blow to glob ...More

London, June 10: The melting of Himalayan glaciers due to global warming will lead to massive human migration in India which is dependent on river systems generated by these glaciers, said a report re ...More

BONN: Japan unveiled a new target Wednesday for reducing greenhouse gas emissions 15 percent by 2020, but the plan was slammed by environmentalists and the U.N. climate chief as leaving the industrial ...More

BONN, Germany: Global warming is uprooting people from their homes and, left unchecked, could lead to the greatest human migration in history, said a report released Wednesday. Estimates vary on h ...More