WASHINGTON/NEW YORK: A group of large US companies, including the troubled Big Three automakers, on Thursday offered Congress a blueprint for greenhouse gas regulation with looser limits than Presiden ...More

PUNE: Solar Punch, a New York-based pop-rock band, powered completely by solar energy, had schoolchildren on their feet most of Thursday. They performed at the Kalmadi high school and Indira Gandhi Pr ...More

LONDON: The global computing industry is starting to rival aviation in its contribution to global warming, but not yet equaling its criticism as Britain gave the green light to expand London's Heathro ...More

TOKYO: Shipping, airlines and road transport need to clean up their emissions and help drive governments toward policies to fight global warming, a top UN official said on Thursday. The transport ...More

BANGALORE : Faced with an acute shortage of climatologists in major research centres, IISc's postgraduate specialisation in climate sciences, the first in Bangalore, comes as a shot in the arm for stu ...More

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is among countries that will be hit hardest by climate change though it contributes only a fraction to global warming, environmental experts including India's R K Pachauri have sai ...More

HUBLI: Hubli education trust's institute of management studies has become an institutional member of World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). P Venkatesan, WWF senior sales manager of Karnataka state, re ...More

Arrival of the migratory birds from Siberia at water reservoirs in Terai region has been accompanied by an increase in illegal poaching of the Siberian visitor. The number of avian visitors increa ...More

WASHINGTON: Incoming President Barack Obama will lead "a global and coordinated response" toward combating climate change, secretary of state designate Hillary Clinton told a Senate confirmation heari ...More

KOLKATA: Man is not a natural prey for big cats, but tigers in the Sundarbans in West Bengal are increasingly sneaking out of the dense mangrove forests and attacking humans, prompting the government ...More

WASHINGTON: To avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, world carbon emissions will have to drop to near zero by 2050 and "go negative" after that, the Worldwatch Institute reported on T ...More

WASHINGTON: Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu promised today that if confirmed as US energy secretary he will aggressively pursue policies aimed at addressing climate change and achieving great ...More

WASHINGTON: The US Secretary of State-designate, Hillary Clinton, has said countries including India must be made part of any agreement on climate change and announced that the Obama Administration wo ...More

KOCHI: The Minister for Water Resources, N. K. Premachandran, has called for measures to protect wetlands. The steps should be initiated at the local body level. He also mooted a central framework for ...More

PUNE: With the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) starting work on its project on Non-motorised transport feeder services to pilot bus rapid transit (BRT) routes,' the civic body is all set to take this ...More

HANOI, Vietnam: Vietnam will spend $115 million over the next six years to prepare for the impact of global warming, which international studies have shown could severely damage the country's long coa ...More

PUNE: It's a sign of the country's increasing eco-awareness . A recent voluntary carbon emissions disclosure programme had 51 companies participating, of which more than 40 per cent were from Maharash ...More

STANFORD, California: Stanford University on Monday said it had received $100 million to build a new energy institute from donors who want environmentally friendly energy sources that also improve U. ...More

CANBERRA: Australia's Aborigines will feel the impact of climate warming more than other Australians, with their remote outback homes and generally poor health making them particularly vulnerable, ...More

PUNE: It's a sign of the country's increasing eco-awareness. A recent voluntary carbon emissions disclosure programme had 51 companies participating, of which more than 40 per cent were from Maharasht ...More