WARSAW: Financial chiefs from about 40 countries have vowed to push for fiscal and financial policies to curb global warming despite rising concern about the financial crisis, calling the impacts of c ...More

WASHINGTON: US President George W. Bush, a long-standing target of environmentalists, has sparked criticism for presiding over a stream of ecologically unfriendly measures at the end of his tenure. ...More

CHICAGO: President-elect Barack Obama said attacking global climate change is a "matter of urgency" that will create jobs as he got advice from Al Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the ...More

LONDON: Sir David Attenborough and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have called on world leaders to do more to protect the poor from the devastating effects of climate change, which hits them the hardest. ...More

Shimla, December 8 Belatedly though, the Forest Department has decided to focus on the long neglected area of forestry research and undertake projects to generate scientific data to help improve re ...More

HYDERABAD: Time has come to move away from ‘boom and bust’ economy model and bring in ‘green and clean’ corporate governance with social accountability for creation of sustainable wealth and environme ...More

POZNAN, Poland: Sweden does the most of any country for tackling emissions of greenhouse gases, while Saudi Arabia does the least, according to a barometer published on Wednesday by watchdogs at the U ...More

GDANSK, Poland: French President Nicolas Sarkozy failed to end deadlock with ex-communist European Union states on an EU climate package on Saturday but predicted a deal would be reached by a December ...More

POZNAN, Poland: Thousands of climate protesters, some dressed as polar bears, devils or penguins, demanded on Saturday swifter action from the United Nations to combat global warming. Outside U.N. ...More

POZNAN, Poland: Green regulations will help both the environment and ailing economies, California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger told a 187-nation UN climate conference on Monday. "Of course, th ...More

POZNAN (Poland): The world is struggling to keep global warming to two degrees celsius as governments cannot agree on the steps. Even if they agree, it will be too little too late to save the Arctic i ...More

POZNAN, Poland: Skiers including Olympic gold medalists appealed on Friday to U.N. climate talks in Poland to do more to slow global warming to help keep snow racers in business. Several Polish sk ...More

POZNAN, Poland: Negotiators at a UN climate conference worked Monday to resolve differences over a deal to protect the world's forests and pressed industrial countries to drastically reduce their carb ...More

POZNAN, Poland: An ancient technique of plowing charred plants into the ground to revive soil may also trap greenhouse gases for thousands of years and forestall global warming, scientists said on Fri ...More

LONDON: Environmental activists cut through a fence and took over a runway at London's third main airport today forcing the cancellation of more than 50 flights. Stansted Airport closed its only r ...More

BANGALORE: A programme aimed at inspiring young people to spread awareness about climate change, its effects and steps to mitigate them has been launched by the British Council in partnership with The ...More

LONDON: Though melting Antarctic ice sheets have become potent symbols of global warming, they may actually turn out to help in the battle against climate change and soaring carbon emissions. Acco ...More

Poznan (Poland): "Climate change is going to lead to a bigger human migration than we've ever seen before," Koko Warner from the UN University said. Speaking on the sidelines of the Dec 1-12 summi ...More

POZNAN, Poland: A UN atlas pinpointed on Friday parts of forests from the Amazon to Madagascar where better protection could give the twin benefits of slowing global warming and preserving rare wildli ...More

POZNAN(Poland): A five-star hotel and an office complex in Kolkata went green in various ways but their applications to be registered under the UN's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) so that they coul ...More