PUNE: There is not much need to worry as climate change will not have a major impact on the Indian monsoon, R R Kelkar, former director general of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Wed ...More

PARIS: Massive, futuristic schemes to spur land and sea into sucking up greenhouse gases may help the fight against global warming but are no substitute for reducing the pollution itself, scientists s ...More

NEW DELHI: Presenting scientists who are working on experiments to save Mother Earth from the hazardous effects of global warming is Discovery Channel’s new series premiering this Friday. “Discovery ...More

WASHINGTON: The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday debated some $31 billion in tax credits and financial incentives to boost alternative energy supplies and promote energy-savings steps as part of th ...More

LONDON: A new science that seeks to fight climate change using methods like giant space mirrors might not work on its own, but when combined with cuts in greenhouse gases it may help reverse global wa ...More

NEW DELHI: Ending days of suspense and anxiety for the Indo-German team of scientists sailing in the cold and desolate waters off Antarctica, the German government on Monday gave the go-ahead to a con ...More

LONDON/CHICAGO: As recession drives consumers to cut costs, their commitment to organic food has been tested with sales growth slowing -- but so far, sales are not falling. How green are our wallets? ...More

WASHINGTON: The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday debated some $31 billion in tax credits and financial incentives to boost alternative energy supplies and promote energy-savings steps as part of th ...More

LONDON: A new science that seeks to fight climate change using methods like giant space mirrors might not work on its own, but when combined with cuts in greenhouse gases it may help reverse global wa ...More

BRUSSELS: The European Commission was preparing an appeal on Friday to wealthy countries — and to the United States in particular — to adopt carbon trading as one of the main mechanisms for curbing gr ...More

Washington, Jan. 26: In a sharp break from eight years of former President George W. Bush, secretary of state Hillary Clinton has picked Todd Stern as her envoy for climate change, a state department ...More

WASHINGTON: Many damaging effects of climate change are already basically irreversible, a team of international researchers declared Monday, warning that even if carbon emissions can somehow be halted ...More

WASHINGTON: As he began reversing the Bush administration's climate change policies, President Barack Obama said America is ready to lead a "truly global coalition" to meet the challenge, but nations ...More

WASHINGTON: US president Barack Obama began reversing the climate policies of the Bush administration on Monday, clearing the way for the government to allow states to set stricter limits on greenhous ...More

MUMBAI: Putting an end to the controversy about the cause of the global warming, veteran cosmic ray scientist Sir Arnold Wolfendale said since science has clearly indicated that it is man-made, the po ...More

Chandigarh, January 25 Soon inhabitants of Asian countries would become environment refugees as large percentage of land would submerge in water due to increase in water level by climatic changes ...More

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Increasing global warming has had an adverse impact on the monsoon activity over peninsular India in the last five decades resulting in decline in number of monsoon depressions and ...More

PARIS: Global warming may create "dead zones" in the ocean that would be devoid of fish and seafood and endure for up to two millennia, according to a study published on Sunday. Its authors say de ...More

BANGKOK: Business should use the global downturn to forge ahead with green technologies that will save hard pressed firms money as well as the planet, a UN environment agency said on Thursday. Pro ...More

TOKYO: Japan on Friday launched the world's first satellite that will exclusively collect data on greenhouse gas emissions around the world, as part of global efforts to tackle climate change. The ...More