Billions of dollars could be raised to help the poorest countries cope with and tackle climate change under proposals to be floated in London this week for new charges on international shipping. Opp ...More

LONDON: Britain should increase its climate targets to an 80 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, compared to its present 60 percentgoal, its chief adviser on climate change said on Tuesd ...More

LONDON/BARCELONA: The struggle against climate change must not follow world trade talks into limbo as risks mount that the credit crisis will sap commitment to the fight, the U.N. climate chief said o ...More

BRUSSELS: European Union lawmakers will vote on Tuesday on whether to support sweeping cuts in carbon emissions from coal plants and tweaks to EU climate change proposals which would ease costs for in ...More

LONDON: Curbing greenhouse gas emissions from ships, possibly by including the sector for the first time in an emissions trading scheme, tops the agenda at a meeting of the industry's top regulatory ...More

India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Indonesia among global warming’s ‘hotspots’ Visakhapatnam facing immediate threat due to proposed coastal corridor ‘VISAKHAPATNAM: More and more people are express ...More

REUTERS KIGALI: African nations at the sharp edge of climate change must unite in talks to strike a new deal in Denmark at the end of 2009 on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, a conference heard ...More

REUTERS CANBERRA: An irrigation farm larger than Singapore and sucking up billions of litres of water each year has been bought by Australia's government to help save one of the country's most vit ...More

PTI NEW YORK: Painting a grim picture, a new study shows that even if greenhouse gas emissions are fixed at 2005 levels, irreversible warming will lead to biodiversity loss and substantial glacial ...More

AFP PARIS: Old-growth forests remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, helping to curb the greenhouse gases that drive global warming, according to a study to be published tomorrow. Many env ...More

IANS NEW DELHI: The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has called on the environmental movement to play a decisive role in planning and inspiring a transition to a world that su ...More

TNN NEW DELHI: R K Pachauri, chief of the Nobel prize winning UN climate change panel, has spiced up the debate on kebabs and steaks by suggesting that the best and easiest way of stemming climate ...More

AFP BERLIN: One of Europe's biggest power companies inaugurates on Tuesday a pilot project using a technology that it is presenting as a huge potential breakthrough in the fight against climate ch ...More

REUTERS LONDON: Respect and legal responsibility for human rights must be at the heart of any new deal to tackle climate change, aid group Oxfam said on Tuesday noting that rich nations had to bea ...More

IANS LONDON: The burping of cows is to go green in Britain as part of the environmental exercise to reduce carbon emissions. The cow releases more carbon gases from its mouth than from its rea ...More

REUTERS OSLO: A new set of United Nations laws may be needed to regulate new Arctic industries such as shipping and oil exploration as climate change melts the ice around the North Pole, legal exp ...More

Nitin Sethi,TNN NEW DELHI: For those who believe India is not doing enough to check the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions, here is some news that should serve as an eye-opener. Through carbon ...More

IANS NEW DELHI: Flying from Delhi to Mumbai and worried that you are adding to climate change? Just pay Rs.90 to the 'voluntary carbon market' that will use the money in green schemes. The vol ...More

London, Sept. 6: Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s running mate, Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s environmental policy is so toxic that it would make the incumbent, George Bush, blush. Mr M ...More

Staff Reporter Three-day Flipper Fest to raise awareness about oceans begins — Photo: M. Karunakaran Protecting the seas: (From left) S.P.S. Basra, Commander, Coast Guard (East); Supraja Dhari ...More