REUTERS WASHINGTON: Who's best equipped to turn the White House green -- John McCain or Barack Obama? Both have made energy security and environmental stewardship part of their presidential campai ...More

REUTERS WASHINGTON: Asian pollution from Asian power plants, cooking and heating could create summer hot spots in the central United States and southern Europe by mid-century, US climate scientist ...More

AP CANBERRA: A government pledge to slash Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent by mid-century would not stop dangerous global warming and should be extended to an 80 per cent target ...More

PTI NEW YORK: The global warming is leading to tropical cyclones becoming stronger and stronger, a new study says. This bolsters the theory already put forward that global warming is a contrib ...More

LONDON: From fuel-efficient stoves for displaced Congolese families to drought-resistant cashew trees in Brazil, some aid agencies offering carbon offset schemes want to marry emissions savings with h ...More

WASHINGTON: A rise in sea level from greenhouse-induced warming of the Greenland ice sheet could be double or triple of current estimates over the next century, warned a team of researchers. "We c ...More

BRUSSELS: Curbs on carbon dioxide emissions from new cars sold in the European Union could be phased in slowly through 2015 after two political groups in a key EU parliamentary committee agreed a comp ...More

GENEVA: Scientists are not paying enough attention to glacial melting in the Andes, the Himalayas and peaks in other developing countries, a United Nations-backed report found on Monday. Experts f ...More

OSLO: Atlantic hurricanes and floods in India are reminders of the risks of ever more extreme weather linked to a changing climate, the head of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said on ...More

GENEVA: The head of the United Nations says he hopes the next US president will show greater leadership than the current administration in tackling climate change. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ...More

Quality and quantity of pepper and coffee have fallen Climate change has pushed up the production cost of cardamom Small streams in the region have dried up KATTAPPANA: The Cardamom Hill Res ...More

GENEVA: The world should not wait until next year to cobble together a new climate change pact, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Sunday. Ban, addressing diplomats and officials ...More

Shimla, August 30 Having taken lead in framing policy on carbon credits, the Himachal Pradesh government yesterday took another step to make the state carbon neutral by constituting a state-level gov ...More

LONDON: Mayor Boris Johnson unveiled a plan on Friday to help London tackle the challenge of climate change with less carbon dioxide, more trees, better drainage and increased water efficiency. So ...More

The fight against global warming is in danger of being downgraded on more urgent fears over energy security, heightened by a Russian war with Georgia, and a global economic slowdown. Added to the ...More

Focussing on climate change a pre-proposal workshop of National Environmental Awareness Campaign (NEAC) was organised by the State Environment Department and Centre for Environmental Studies in suppor ...More

WASHINGTON: Global warming will decrease hurricane activity, but if formed they would be of very high intensity, says a group of researchers. In the study, scientists have developed a new method f ...More

WASHINGTON: A new research by scientists, through analysis of topography, ice, and free atmospheric change, has found that the melting of ice on mountains speed up their temperature rise. The rese ...More

OSLO: Time is short to work out a new treaty to fight global warming as planned by the end of 2009 because drafts of a deal must be ready in less than a year, the UN's top climate change official said ...More

COIMBATORE: A new website for exchanging research outcomes between collaborating countries and institutes involved in climate change research was launched on Saturday at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural Un ...More