WASHINGTON: The United States needs to take the lead in preserving tropical forests in the fight against climate change, a coalition of lawmakers, corporate chiefs and environmentalists said on Monday ...More

OSLO: Art treasures in tropical nations are under threat from climate change which is likely to speed decay, UN experts said on Sunday. "The art world is made of materials that bugs like," said Jo ...More

SYDNEY: Australia is naturally the most fire-prone continent on earth but climate change appears to be making the wildfires that regularly sweep across the country more ferocious, scientists said on M ...More

OSLO: Art treasures in tropical nations are under threat from climate change which is likely to speed decay, UN experts said on Sunday. "The art world is made of materials that bugs like," said Jo ...More

NEW DELHI: The “Self Empowerment Retreat” on climate change concluded at Brahma Kumaris’ Omshanti Retreat Centre in Gurgaon on Monday. An eight-point action plan stressed the need to integrate s ...More

DUBLIN: Northern Ireland's environment minister announced on Monday that he has banned the local broadcast of British government ads on climate change and denounced their energy-saving message as "ins ...More

TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso will order his ministries to draft a "Green New Deal" this week to counter the twin threats of climate change and the economic downturn, a report said on Sunday ...More

“Climate change is the biggest crisis of the 21st century with each and every one of us being equal stakeholders in saving our future,” said Professor B K Chandrashekhar, former chairman, Karnataka Le ...More

TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso will order his ministries to draft a "Green New Deal" this week to counter the twin threats of climate change and the economic downturn, a report said on Sunday ...More

OTTAWA: The Canadian government's efforts to reduce greenhouse gases and other pollution at a cost of more than two billion dollars have not produced any measurable results, a watchdog said. "The ...More

NEW DELHI: A "voluntary signal" from India on where and when it will cap its greenhouse gas emissions can help resolve the current impasse holding up a global deal to combat climate change, says UN En ...More

SAN FRANCISCO: The federal government on Friday settled a lawsuit that accused two US agencies of financing energy projects overseas without considering their impacts on global warming. The Export ...More

Shimla, February 7 The state will soon come out with its own “Policy and Action Plan for Climate Change” and launch a mission for achieving environment protection and carbon neutrality. This was ...More

NEW DELHI: Stating that there is a direct link between financial crises and global warming, Union Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal on Saturday said developing need-oriented human nature and ...More

BAROUK: Lebanon's majestic cedar trees have withstood the test of time for centuries but climate change is threatening the country's most treasured symbol. Used by various civilisations throughout ...More

KANPUR: Unusual climatic variations of warm days and cool nights in January, has been observed to be the hottest of all the January months in the first decade of 21st Century. The average per day mean ...More

New York, Feb. 6: The United Nations warned that two-thirds of the world’s population will face a lack of water in less than 20 years if current trends in climate change, population growth, rural to u ...More

NEW YORK: The United Nations warned that two-thirds of the world's population will face a lack of water in less than 20 years if current trends in climate change, population growth, rural to urban mig ...More

DUBLIN: Northern Ireland's environment minister announced on Monday that he has banned the local broadcast of British government ads on climate change and denounced their energy-saving message as "ins ...More

New Delhi, Feb. 5: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday asked the developing countries to pitch in more efforts to address climate change and "get on board" with the industrialised world to fi ...More