NEW DELHI: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has appealed to Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan to serve only vegetarian food during the live Earth Event being hosted by him in the ...More

BRUSSELS: European carmakers must cut global-warming gases from new vehicles by 18 percent within the next six years, the EU agreed on Monday, after a long battle between environmentalists and an indu ...More

POZNAN, Poland: The economic slowdown is "no excuse" to neglect a fight against global warming that could widen water shortages to half of humanity by 2050, delegates told the opening of UN climate ta ...More

ROME: The "Year of the Gorilla" began on Monday, a UN effort to raise money for primates threatened with extinction from disease, hunting and deforestation. Officials for the UN-backed Convention ...More

POZNAN, Poland: Clearing tropical forests to plant biofuels is a bad idea for the climate and reduces the diversity of animal and plant life, a study found on Monday. "Keeping tropical rain forest ...More

POZNAN, Poland: UN climate talks open in Poland on Monday overshadowed by a global economic slowdown but with UN praise for "ambitious" goals by US President-elect Barack Obama for fighting global war ...More

PARIS: Earth's climate appears to be changing more quickly and deeply than a benchmark UN report for policymakers predicted, top scientists said ahead of international climate talks starting tomorrow ...More

POZNAN, Poland: The global financial crisis already has delayed some green energy projects, stoking fears that a shortage of investment money will lead to cheap and dirty decisions on new power plants ...More

MILAN: Access to water is a basic human right and should be high on the agenda of climate change talks in Poland next week, the head of an Italian advocacy group said on Friday. With more than 1 b ...More

LONDON: Nobel Prize-winning Indian scientist Rajendra Pachauri and musician Sir Paul McCartney have teamed up to urge people to become vegetarian to save the planet from the greenhouse gases created b ...More

LONDON: The cost of efforts to avoid dangerous global warming may be 170 percent higher than 2007 estimates, a report for the UN's climate agency said on Thursday. The report comes four days befor ...More

WARSAW, POLAND: The global financial crisis will make it harder for countries to agree on an ambitious new treaty to combat global warming and underscores the need to make green technologies profitabl ...More

LONDON: Britain's chief climate change adviser will recommend on Monday how the government can meet tough targets to pare planet-warming carbon emissions, including what role coal should play in the c ...More

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday called for mobilising "all our resources to protect the Himalayas" from the threat of environmental damage. "The IMF has always taken a broad and ...More

CHERRAPUNJEE (Meghalaya): Nothing can be more ironical: despite being the wettest place on earth Cherrapunjee is suffering from acute water scarcity, earning for itself the epithet 'wet desert'. A ...More

OSLO: Paying landowners to let forests grow is promoted by the United Nations as a viable way to fight global warming, but experts first have to puzzle out how to insure trees against going up in smok ...More

MALE: Among the many grim predictions of climate change experts, the future fate of The Maldives stands out as a genuine doomsday scenario with the island chain nation facing nothing short of extincti ...More

JORHAT, Nov 26 – Principal chief conservator of forests (Wildlife) and chief wildlife warden of Assam MC Malakar has stressed the need for a bamboo-based second green revolution in India in general ...More

WASHINGTON: In a new research, scientists at the University of Chicago, US, have documented that the ocean is growing more acidic faster than previously thought. In addition, they have found that ...More

NEW DELHI: The rich countries, which were mandated to cut down on their emissions, are instead on an upward curve that could lead the world to tipping point. The global warming causing greenhouse gas ...More