WASHINGTON: A new study has found that an increase in average temperature of only two degrees Celsius could have a devastating effect on populations of Australia's iconic kangaroos. "Our study pro ...More

BRUSSELS: European Union leaders stuck to ambitious targets for tackling climate change on Wednesday, despite Italy and a group of eastern European nations calling for caution during the economic cris ...More

WASHINGTON: New evidence has emerged that, given enough time, climate change can even alter the course of plate tectonics, by grinding them down. The march of plate tectonics had previously seemed ...More

Shimla, October 16 Chief Minister P.K. Dhumal said all government departments would introduce carbon audit system and recast their strategies so as to reduce environmental impact and carbon emissio ...More

EU promises bold climate plans Brussels, reuters: European Union leaders planned on Thursday to appease critics of the blocs bold plans to fight climate change amid economic turmoil with concessions t ...More

WASHINGTON: Autumn temperatures in the Arctic are at record levels, the Arctic Ocean is getting warmer and less salty as sea ice melts, and reindeer herds appear to be declining, researchers have repo ...More

KOCHI: The hazards of climate change and the dangerous lifestyle of mankind that has led to the change is slowly dawning on society, perhaps. A Delhi-based non-governmental organisation has taken up t ...More

SYDNEY: The desert rat, a small mammal classified as "presumed extinct" since 1857, has been spotted in New South Wales' (NSW) Sturt National Park. University of North South Wales (UNSW) student U ...More

Karnal, October 15 World Rural Women's Day was celebrated by the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) of the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) in Munak village, near here, with a call to women to play ...More

French attempts to craft a global warming pact to make the EU a world leader in tackling climate change are gridlocked, with governments unable to agree on how to share the pain and costs of slashing ...More

With Orissa facing adverse impact of climate change as its long coastline is already feeling its effect and environmentalists fearing that the situation will aggravate in near future, the Orissa Renew ...More

WASHINGTON: Despite the current global financial storm, rich countries are resolved to keep up funding to help developing nations combat climate change, a top World Bank environment official said on T ...More

BRUSSELS: The head of the European Commission appealed to EU leaders on Tuesday not to sacrifice the fight against climate change to the urgent economic problems thrown up by the global financial cris ...More

WASHINGTON: A rise of more than two degrees Celsius in global temperatures will be enough to wipe out many penguin colonies. A new World Wildlife Fund report - 2°C is Too Much - shows that the col ...More

WASHINGTON: You might call it the fourth crisis. While collapsing financial institutions plunge wealthy nations into recession and developing countries grapple with surging food and energy costs, the ...More

NEW DELHI: The government's flagship 'Green India' programme under the National Action Plan on Climate Change, meant to afforest 6 million hectares of countryside, has hit a major snag. Parliament ...More

OSLO: Refugees are moving to Antarctica by 2030, the Olympics are held only in cyberspace and central Australia has been abandoned as too dry, according to exotic scenarios for climate change on Monda ...More

WASHINGTON: Transfers of financial resources and technology by industrialised countries to developing countries "are fundamental to the success of any global strategy to address the issue" of climate ...More

WASHINGTON: The economic free fall gripping the US may bring down one of the main environmental objectives: capping the greenhouse gases that are blamed for global warming. Democratic leaders in t ...More

BARCELONA: More than 7,000 species in the world - 35 per cent of birds, 52 per cent of amphibians and 71 per cent of warm-water reef-building corals - are likely to be particularly susceptible to clim ...More