PARIS: Manmade climate change is set to hasten the disintegration of a massive ice sheet in Antarctica by 100,000 years, boosting sea levels some five metres, according to a pair of studies published ...More

GUWAHATI, March 18 – A workshop on ‘National Environment Awareness Campaign, 2008-2009’ on climate change was organised by Environmental Watch and Management Institute (EWMI) recently with support fro ...More

WASHINGTON: China's top climate change official rejected as protectionist on Wednesday a US idea to put tariffs on some imports from countries that do not place a price on carbon, chiding the United S ...More

TROMSOE, Norway: Potentially fatal to the polar bear, global warming has already left its mark on the species with smaller, less robust bears that are increasingly showing cannibalistic tendencies. ...More

NEW YORK: Five countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America will receive a fund of USD 18 million from a United Nations' programme aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from forests while boosting ...More

OSLO: The Internet could provide an early warning system for environmental damage, imitating an online watchdog that gives alerts about outbreaks of disease, scientists said on Thursday. An automa ...More

OSLO: Investments of $750 billion could create a "Green New Deal" to revive the world economy and protect the environment, perhaps aided by a tax on oil, the head of the U.N. environment agency said o ...More

PARIS: Manmade climate change is set to hasten the disintegration of a massive ice sheet in Antarctica by 100,000 years, boosting sea levels some five metres, according to a pair of studies published ...More

TROMSOE, Norway: Potentially fatal to the polar bear, global warming has already left its mark on the species with smaller, less robust bears that are increasingly showing cannibalistic tendencies. ...More

Thiruvananthapuram: At 8.30 p.m. on March 28, people in Thiruvananthapuram will join people in cities across the world in voluntarily switching off lights for one hour as part of an international camp ...More

Quietly in public, loudly in private, climate scientists everywhere are saying the same thing: it’s over. The years in which more than 2{+0}C of global warming could have been prevented have passed, t ...More

ISTANBUL: A couple of years from now, beer, cola, rice, breakfast cereal, cotton T-shirts and many other goods may come with a new logo: a label which says the water used to make this product came fro ...More

NEW DELHI: Asia has some of the world's top greenhouse gas polluters and their role in achieving a broader climate pact at the end of the year during U.N.-led talks will be crucial. Following are ...More

NEW DELHI: Asia's biggest carbon emitters face dual challenges this year that risk undermining their fight against climate change -- a global recession that's crippling domestic business and elections ...More

CANBERRA: Australia's influential Greens will demand stringent caps on how many carbon offsets can be bought from developing countries as the price of support for the government's emissions trade sche ...More

WASHINGTON: Top environmental officials from Europe say they are encouraged by the United States' new stance on climate change. After spending years encouraging the Bush administration to take act ...More

OSLO: A drastic climate shift such as a thaw of Greenland's ice or death of the Amazon forest is more than 50 percent likely by the year 2200 in cases of strong global warming, according to a survey o ...More

WASHINGTON: China appealed on Monday to exclude its giant export sector in the next treaty on climate change, as doubts grow whether the world can close ranks by a deadline of December. Rich natio ...More

OSLO: Climate change has emerged as one of the most urgent threats to polar bears as wildlife officials from the five Arctic countries meet in Norway this week to discuss how to protect the vulnerabl ...More

OSLO: A drastic climate shift such as a thaw of Greenland's ice or death of the Amazon forest is more than 50 percent likely by the year 2200 in cases of strong global warming, according to a survey o ...More