New Delhi : Just limiting the rise in mercury by two degrees can make a difference, literally! It can avoid droughts in India and devastating cyclones such as the one that recently hit Haiti. Ahead o ...More

On November 4, the Paris Climate Change agreement came into force. By November 7, when the 22nd Conference of Parties (CoP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) opened in Marrakes ...More

The Indian Ocean’s Agulhas Current — one of the strongest currents in the world — is getting wider rather than strengthening, which will have important implications for global climate change, a stud ...More

Surprised by India's initiatives in clean energy and coal dependency reduction, the international climate research organisations at COP22 here said that the country is set to "over-achieve" its emissi ...More

The United Nations conference on climate change now under way in Marrakech, Morocco, has the ambitious task of drawing up the first steps on enhanced finance and technology transfer, which is vital to ...More

A lawsuit filed by young climate activists who contend the US government is failing to protect them from the harmful effects of greenhouse gas emissions can move forward, a federal judge in Oregon rul ...More

Most life on Earth is already being changed by the warming climate, even though the rise in global temperature since pre-industrial times has been rather slight, researchers warned on Thursday. The s ...More

Marrakech:Water has been considered as a main climate change challenge for the first time at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP), international think tank World Water Council has said ...More

Marrakech:Water has been considered as a main climate change challenge for the first time at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP), international think tank World Water Council has said ...More

India on Wednesday pitched for the conservation and cultivation of the medicinal plants for climate change mitigation of the 22nd Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Ch ...More

Marrakech (Morocco), Nov. 10: The Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) has pitched for conservation and cultivation of medicinal plants for climate change adaptation in India at t ...More

Australia on Thursday ratified the Paris Agreement and the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol, affirming its "strong commitment" towards climate change. The Paris and Doha Amendment, which togeth ...More

MARRAKESH, Morocco (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When heavy rains hit the tiny West African nation of Togo in September, filling a hydropower dam close to overflowing, the Togolese Red Cross took an ...More

MARRAKECH, MOROCCO: The United Nations sponsored climate talks underway in the ochre city began with a sense of optimism, but making good on the promise of the Paris Agreement will require ensuring th ...More

MARRAKESH, NOVEMBER 8: The UN’s Clean Development Mechanism has a key role in helping countries achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Change Agreement, the United Nations Framework Convention on Clim ...More

Climate change has made deadly heatwaves and hurricanes, along with droughts and flooding, both more frequent and more intense in recent years, according to a UN report released. More than 50 percent ...More

As the capital battles one of its worst ever environmental crises in the recent decades, politicians and policymakers are getting ready for yet another round of climate change talks in far-off Morocco ...More

Increasing deaths due to poaching are alarming Wild tigers are a rare species in the world. According to the Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI), 110 tigers died this year. Out of that, 68 ti ...More

Bench responds to a PIL plea on illegal constructions and rapid degradation of the Himalayan ecology Taking notice of the degradation in the Himalayan ecology and environment, the Uttarakhand High Co ...More

In a bid to keep a check on climate change, the Uttarakhand high court on Monday asked the state government to impose a ‘glacier tax’ on tourists visiting the Himalayas. Hearing a public interest lit ...More