PARIS: Melting permafrost could eventually disgorge a billion tonnes a year of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, accelerating the threat from climate change, scientists said. Their probe sought ...More

LONDON: US President Barrack Obama's energy adviser has suggested that as part of efforts to slow global warming, all the world's roofs should be painted white. According to a report in the Telegr ...More

WASHINGTON: If Greenland's ice melts at moderate to high rates, ocean circulation by 2100 could shift and cause sea levels off the Northeast coast of North America to rise by about 12 to 20 inches (31 ...More

NEW DELHI: To reduce vehicular pollution and protect the Capital from ecological degradation, the Delhi Cycling Club is launching a unique two-year “Climate bicycle and bus ride programme” in the city ...More

Reiterating the need to reduce dependence on oil as opposed to other sources of energy like wind and solar, the US President Barack Obama has said that India and China, countries having huge populatio ...More

PARIS: Domestic politics will not allow the United States to deepen its commitment for cutting carbon pollution over the next decade, Washington's top climate negotiator has said. "We are jumping ...More

WASHINGTON: Tree-munching beetles, malaria-carrying mosquitoes and deer ticks that spread Lyme disease are three living signs that climate change is likely to exact a heavy toll on human health. T ...More

PARIS: Melting permafrost could eventually disgorge a billion tonnes a year of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, accelerating the threat from climate change, scientists said. Their probe sought ...More

WASHINGTON: If Greenland's ice melts at moderate to high rates, ocean circulation by 2100 could shift and cause sea levels off the Northeast coast of North America to rise by about 12 to 20 inches (31 ...More

LONDON: US President Barrack Obama's energy adviser has suggested that as part of efforts to slow global warming, all the world's roofs should be painted white. According to a report in the Telegr ...More

COPENHAGEN: Global business leaders added momentum to prospects for a new UN climate treaty by agreeing on Tuesday that the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by mid-century by setting sp ...More

WASHINGTON: The amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide seeping into the atmosphere will increase by nearly 40% worldwide by 2030 if ways are not found to require mandatory emission reductions, a US go ...More

COPENHAGEN: Global business leaders added momentum to prospects for a new UN climate treaty by agreeing on Tuesday that the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by mid-century by setting sp ...More

Schoolchildren from remote areas of Ladakh watched a film show on environmental issues on the first day of the two-day Leh environmental film festival here today. The theme of the festival is “Quot ...More

BHUBANESWAR: If policymakers in Orissa are contemplating taking normal recourse to tackling floods, they might be making mistakes. It is time to shed the traditional approach as the State braces for w ...More

NEW DELHI: Mckinsey’s low carbon growth study on India has run into more controversy with three of the four eminent members of the ‘academic review panel’ cited by the firm distancing themselves from ...More

CHENNAI: There is a growing need for science students to pool in their ideas and develop a sustainable way to control pollution and curb global warming, according to speakers at the inauguration of Da ...More

May 25: A Nepalese Sherpa, who has set a world record for maximum number of ascents of world’s highest peak Mount Everest, has warned that its glaciers and ice walls were melting at an alarming rate a ...More

A new World Bank report says India can further its climate resilience through a combination of measures and right incentives aimed at multiple levels of Government - local, State, and national. Th ...More

KOLKATA: The cyclone Aila has left more than 24,000 people homeless in the Sunderbans on Monday. The most affected islands are Dayapur, Jamespur,Annpore and Lahiripur, lying close to the Sajnekhali fo ...More