NEW DELHI: Millions of Google Earth users around the world will be able to see how climate change could affect the planet and its people over the next century, along with viewing the loss of Antarctic ...More

WASHINGTON: An Australian scientist has proposed a radical solution to slow down global warming, by suggesting a technique which would place sulphur gas into the Earth's stratosphere to keep out the S ...More

WASHINGTON: Investors managing more than $2.3 trillion urged the government on Tuesday to enact strict laws to cut greenhouse gas emissions, saying lax regulation could hurt the competitiveness of US ...More

WASHINGTON: Investors managing more than $2.3 trillion urged the government on Tuesday to enact strict laws to cut greenhouse gas emissions, saying lax regulation could hurt the competitiveness of US ...More

NEW YORK: The global food crisis, climate change and pandemic influenza are the main threats to human health, the UN health agency says. "These three critical events, these clear threats to internat ...More

LONDON: The government-backed Carbon Trust's contribution to reducing UK carbon dioxide emissions is "pretty small beer" and it can do better, the Committee of Public Accounts said in a report on Tues ...More

WASHINGTON: Congressional Democrats on Monday said White House pressure may have influenced the Environmental Protection Agency to reject a bid by California to impose strict limits on emissions from ...More

WASHINGTON: A decision on whether carbon dioxide endangers public health as a greenhouse gas will probably be made by the next administration, the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency said o ...More

New Delhi: Monday and Tuesday have been the coolest days during the month of May this year in the region. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicts the weather is going to more or less remain ...More

LONDON: Three species every hour are being scraped off from earth due to pollution, it has been revealed at world conference to save wildlife. It was 65 years ago that dinosaurs were eradicated fr ...More

WASHINGTON: New studies have found that climate changes are creating green and flowering mountains in Sweden, a phenomenon which has been observed for the first time in 8,000 years. The studies ha ...More

LONDON: Some of the most precious wildlife in Britain are at risk of being lost forever, said a report, which shows that UK's biodiversity today is significantly less rich than it was 50 years ago. ...More

BONN:The world faces a Herculean task to safeguard animal and plant life from climate change and pollution, German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said at the opening of a UN biodiversity conferen ...More

OSLO: A campaign to plant trees worldwide set a goal of seven billion by late 2009, just over one for each person on the planet, to help protect the environment and slow climate change. The U.N. Envir ...More

NAIROBI: More than two billion trees were planted around the world as part of the UN's campaign to combat climate change, the world body's environment programme said on Tuesday in a statement. The Nai ...More

WASHINGTON: Any expectations that a John McCain presidency will mean a seamless transition in US-India ties with a revival of the Bush-driven civilian nuclear deal will have to be tempered by a tough ...More

LIMA: President Alan Garcia on Tuesday created the first environment ministry in Peru, where scientists say climate change is hitting hard because of the Andean country's rich biodiversity. Peru's mel ...More

CHENNAI: Keeping up with global trends, the Tamil Nadu Government on Wednesday announced it will undertake a detailed study on the impact of climate changes in the state. According to the Policy Note ...More

KALAHANDI (Orissa): Intense heat wave conditions and declining water levels are spelling a hard time for Oriya tribals. The state's Kalahandi district is reeling from water scarcity, so much so that t ...More

With increasing climate change and interventions by men on forests, record changes in forest types in the country are expected as the forest mapping exercise comes to a conclusion by the year end. ...More