PARIS: European Union (EU) environment ministers began an informal two-day meeting here on Thursday aimed at clearing some of the many obstacles besetting their goal of slashing carbon emissions by 20 ...More

MUTHATHI (Karnataka): He is just 17, but tackling climate change and transforming poachers into forest guards to conserve the environment makes more sense to Agastya Muthanna than cramming for his C ...More

WASHINGTON: Global warming is leading to unusual epic rains in Antarctica, which is in turn causing the region's penguins to freeze to death. According to a report in National Geographic News , si ...More

NEW DELHI: The US has done the least among the world's eight biggest economies to address global warming, a study released on Thursday found. The G8 Climate Scorecards 2008, released ahead of next ...More

WASHINGTON: A new study has called for stronger short-term goals to reduce carbon emissions, as long-term climate change policy is likely to reverse the tide of climate change very slowly. The stu ...More

TOKYO: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has urged developing countries, including his own, to join rich nations in setting targets to reduce emissions blamed for global warming. "Al ...More

Washington: The U.S. President, George W. Bush, on Wednesday said an accord on climate change was not possible unless countries such as India and China were part of the framework. This was an issue he ...More

CANBERRA: A draft blueprint of Australia's emissions trading scheme will include fuel, but is unlikely to recommend what the country's key emissions cap should be, experts close to the report's auth ...More

NEW DELHI: Industrialised countries should meet their own commitments in the fight against climate change rather than asking countries like India and China to cap greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the ...More

LONDON: Computer modeling has predicted that rising temperatures will lead to male only offspring in an ancient reptile species known as Tuatara, thus condemning the animal to extinction by 2085. ...More

WASHINGTON: Floods like those that inundated the US Midwest are supposed to occur once every 500 years but this is the second since 1993, suggesting flawed forecasts that do not take global warming ...More

NEW DELHI: Reiterating its commitment, India on Monday said that despite developmental imperatives, the per capita greenhouse gas emissions would not exceed that of the developed industrialised countr ...More

India on Monday unveiled a national action plan to deal with climate change. Though it doesn’t identifying any targets for reducing India’s greenhouse gas emissions, it does outline areas where sincer ...More

India released its much-awaited National Action Plan on Climate Change ahead of the G8 Summit, where this issue and challenges posed by it are going to be thoroughly debated. While releasing the acti ...More

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change must be effective, fair and equitable to all countries. "Climate change is a global challenge. It can ...More

WASHINGTON: The dwindling march of the penguins is signaling that the world's oceans are in trouble, scientists now say. Penguins may be the tuxedo-clad version of a canary in the coal mine, wit ...More

PARIS: The Group of Eight (G8) is set to fudge its decision on climate change next week, reflecting the issue's weaker status in the absence of European campaigning and in the face of sky-high oil pri ...More

NEW DELHI: The National Action Plan on Climate Change has been finalised and would in all probability released by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday. After two rounds of to and fro between differ ...More

SYDNEY: Climate change could alter the farming map of Australia, with some agricultural operations moving into the wetter north of the island continent as the major food-producing belt in the south dr ...More

LONDON: Doctors should use their position to influence behaviour in a manner that helps combat climate change, according to experts. While writing in British Medical Journal , Professor Mike Gill ...More