KOCHI: Greenpeace India observed the Global Day of Action on Climate Change by holding a candle light vigil and displaying hand-made windmill at Marine Drive here on Saturday. This was part of the ...More

New York: Boosting funding for efforts to slash greenhouse gas emissions stemming from deforestation can simultaneously combat climate change and conserve biodiversity, a newly made atlas launched b ...More

Between 1998 and 2007, India has lost more people due to extreme weather events caused by climate change than any other country, with an average of 4,532 people killed every year, a well-known German ...More

BANGALORE : Power saved is power earned. To illustrate this best, commercial buildings need to rethink on their power usage so that each unit of electricity is used with a purpose. Commercial building ...More

Shimla, December 4 Recognising the importance of environment statistics as an emerging area, the National Conference of the Central and the State Statistical Organisations (COSCSSO) has underlined ...More

ROME: Man-made noise in the world's seas and oceans is becoming an increasing threat to whales, dolphins and turtles who use sound to communicate, forage for food and find mates, wildlife experts said ...More

POZNAN (Poland): Staging a global forum on climate change is a dilemma, for it adds to very problem it is trying to solve. Around 13,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) will add to Earth's greenhou ...More

MEXICO CITY: Mexico aims to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by around 15% and wants to increase carbon trading as part of a global push to combat climate change, the environment minister said on We ...More

POZNAN, Poland: President-elect Barack Obama's goals for curbing greenhouse gases to 2020 are inadequate to fight global warming, Chinese and Indian delegates said at UN climate talks on Wednesday. ...More

LONDON: The arctic tundra emits the same amount of methane in winter as in the warmer months, a surprising finding that bolsters understanding of how greenhouse gases interact with nature, researchers ...More

NEW YORK: Europe's greenhouse gas market has shown that investments by rich countries into clean-energy projects in poor nations are not always the best way to cut emissions blamed for global warming, ...More

POZNAN, Poland: Soot is darkening ice in the Arctic and speeding a melt that could make the ocean around the North Pole ice-free in summer well before 2050, experts said on Tuesday. The experts sa ...More

Ocean warming, frequent tropical cyclones, flash floods and droughts are likely to bring a devastating impact on food production systems in Pacific island countries, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Or ...More

POZNAN, Poland: Developing nations urged rich nations at UN climate talks on Tuesday to raise aid despite the financial crisis to help the poor cope with global warming and safeguard tropical forests. ...More

POZNAN (Poland): Anybody who looks remotely like an Indian and is at the UN climate change summit is first asked: "My god, what happened in Mumbai?" Any discussion on global warming comes a long way a ...More

POZNAN, Poland: Once global warming's bad boy, China is now winning praise for its upbeat role in climate talks, a turnaround perhaps brought on by the effects of carbon emissions on its choking citie ...More

POZNAN (Poland): "It's our future that's being negotiated out here," says Ruchi Jain. "We can make a difference," says Avipsa Mahapatra. "We need India to move faster on a green development path," say ...More

KANNUR: Research projects and working models prepared by high school and higher secondary school students here have been invited for selection to be presented at the Kerala Environment Congress to be ...More

KOCHI: Climate change is a challenge facing the world, but enough attention is not being paid to the issues pertaining to the phenomenon, said Prasad R. Menon, Managing Director of Tata Power Company ...More

LONDON: A group of major international financial institutions joined with The Climate Group to launch a new code to guide best practice across the sector to deal with the risks and opportunities of cl ...More