LONDON: The United Nations published a report on Thursday to help lawmakers meeting at an upcoming UN climate summit to move closer to sealing a new agreement to confront potentially devastating globa ...More

Thiruvananthapuram: Minister for Water Resources N.K. Premachandran has stressed the need to formulate an action plan to mitigate the impact of climate change on vulnerable communities in the State. ...More

Chicago, Nov. 19: Promising a $15 billion annual catalyst investment fund to build a clean energy future, President-elect Barack Obama has sought help from countries like India to launch a "new era" o ...More

ALGIERS: Barack Obama's pledge to work to reduce emissions sharply by 2020 is a "huge signal" of encouragement to countries negotiating a new climate pact, the head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretar ...More

OTTAWA: Canada's Conservative government, shifting positions in the wake of Barack Obama's election as US president, said on Wednesday that it would work to develop a North America-wide cap-and-trade ...More

STRASBOURG: Honey bees, whose numbers are falling, must be given flowery "recovery zones" in Europe's farmlands to aid their survival, a leading EU lawmaker said on Wednesday. Bees pollinate numer ...More

MYSORE: Bangalore Rural district has higher emission levels of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) — about 0.34 million tonnes — followed by Mysore district with 0.27 million tonnes of CO2 emissions. Chamarajanagar ...More

LOS ANGELES: Could TV really save the world from global warming? Maybe not, but network television writers gathered on Tuesday anyway to discuss how incorporating the growing threat of climate change ...More

NEW YORK: Unveiling a $15bn annual investment plan to build a clean energy future, president-elect Barack Obama said his presidency would mark a new chapter on America's leadership on climate change a ...More

PARIS: Carbon emissions from the industrialised world in 2006 were higher than at the start of the century, mainly as a result of revived activity by former Soviet-bloc states, according to UN figures ...More

PARIS: Runoff from ice caps in Antarctica and Greenland along with melting mountain glaciers have replaced expanding oceans as the main driver of rising sea levels, according to a new study. The r ...More

LONDON: Lawmakers gave final approval to a bill committing Britain to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 — the first country to have such a legally binding framework on climate change ...More

Nov. 18: India is going to take up the issue of financial package for developing nations for technology transfer at the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting, scheduled for Dece ...More

Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 18: Half the world’s population could face a shortage of clean water by 2080 because of climate change, experts warned on Tuesday. Wong Poh Poh, a professor at the National Unive ...More

Emissions from industrialised countries plateaued in 2006 after six years of growth, the United Nations said on Monday. But the countries have not yet reported emissions from the past two years, and t ...More

Nov. 17: The totality of climate change’s effect on the globe are going to be drastic and the term "climate change" is "more passive" as compared to its effect. A biologist and practitioner of Tibetan ...More

HANOI, Vietnam: The United States and Vietnam announced on Monday that they will work together to study climate change and seek ways to protect vulnerable river deltas. The two nations will open a ...More

LOS ANGELES: Scientists, environmentalists and government and industry officials from around the world meet this week for a summit on greenhouse gas emissions that their host, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegg ...More

BONN: The world's 40 leading industrialized nations produced 2.3% more greenhouse gases from 2000 to 2006, showing that a new deal to curb global warming is urgently needed, the United Nations said on ...More

Long-term energy and resource security are increasingly becoming the focus of political and economic debate worldwide. Industrialised and developing countries are looking for new ways to ensure long-t ...More