CHENNAI: K.N. Shruti, a Std. XII student of Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School, has returned from a three-week expedition to the Arctic recently. This Young Indian Climate Champion, selected by t ...More

LONDON: An example of the greenhouse effect cooling the climate has been seen in Spain, where the roofs of hothouse farms reflect so much sunlight that they may be pushing down local temperatures. ...More

WASHINGTON: Global warming is driving tropical plant and animal species to higher altitudes, potentially leaving lowland rainforest with nothing to take their place, ecologists argue in this week's is ...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

PATHSALA, Oct 10 – World Tourism Day was observed at Bajali College recently under the aegis of the department of Tourism and Travel Management (TTM) in collaboration with India Tourism, Guwahati and ...More

UNITED NATIONS: Instead of sidelining the fight against climate change, the global credit crisis could hasten countries' efforts to create "green growth" industries by revamping the financial system b ...More

NEW DELHI: The World Bank cannot help India fight climate change. Claiming so much, the ministry of environment and forests has rejected the institution's recently created Climate Investment Funds m ...More

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico: A tortoise, a hare, a mouse and a half-dozen mussels are some of the creatures that a conservation group hopes to save t hrough a "Western Ark" project aimed at petitioning ...More

BARCELONA: Dwindling numbers of birds worldwide are a sign that governments are failing to keep promises to slow damage to nature by 2010, an international report said on Thursday. Rising human po ...More

NEW DELHI: If you think only human beings are affected by climate change, think again. A study by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has revealed that 35 percent of the world's ...More

WASHINGTON: Health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society have released a report that lists 12 pathogens that could spread into new regions as result of climate change, potentially impacting ...More

NEW YORK: Payments from polluters in rich countries to tropical communities in exchange for slowing deforestation may soon play a bigger role in combating climate change if problems like measuring pre ...More

LONDON: Nearly a quarter of the world’s land mammal species, including some in southern India’s Western Ghats, are at risk of extinction. And many others may vanish before they are even known to scien ...More

NEW DELHI: India's democracy, endemic poverty and soaring economic ambition make targeting greenhouse gas emissions cuts a hard sell, even as global pressure mounts on the government to do more on cli ...More

BARCELONA: Environmental damage such as desertification or flooding caused by climate change could force millions of peoples from their homes in the next few decades, experts said on Wednesday. "A ...More

BARCELONA: Forest protection can help fight climate change but any UN-led projects must also ease poverty and safeguard rights of indigenous peoples, an international alliance said on Wednesday. T ...More

BARCELONA: Evidence is mounting day by day that mankind is to blame for climate change, and the financial crisis is a temporary setback in the hunt for solutions, the head of the UN Climate Panel said ...More

BARCELONA: A "deadly dozen" diseases ranging from avian flu to yellow fever are likely to spread more because of climate change, the Wildlife Conservation Society said. The society, based in the B ...More

NICOSIA: A slowdown in the world economy may give the planet a breather from the excessively high carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions responsible for climate change, a Nobel Prize winning scientist said on ...More

BRUSSELS: European Union lawmakers backed more domestic action to fight climate change, cutting import limits on carbon offsets from developing countries through 2020, in a vote on Tuesday which will ...More