NEW DELHI: With last year's Nobel peace prize going to former US vice-president Al Gore and intergovernmental panel on climate change, headed by Indian environmentalist RK Pachauri, for "disseminating ...More

NEW YORK: Former Beatle Paul McCartney is urging the world to go vegetarian in a bid to fight global warming and is surprised more green groups don't promote it. In an interview with the animal rights ...More

WASHINGTON: President Bush is proposing new targets for curtailing the nation's greenhouse gas emissions in an attempt to short-circuit what aides call a potential regulatory "train wreck" if Congress ...More

VIENNA: Melting glaciers, disappearing ice sheets and warming water could lift sea levels by as much as 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) by the end of this century, displacing tens of millions of people, new res ...More

WASHINGTON: President George W Bush Wednesday called for US greenhouse gas emissions to be curtailed from 2025, but was roundly accused of doing too little, too late against climate change. Despite ha ...More

WASHINGTON: President George W Bush has again rejected any international regime that exempts fast-growing India and China from binding emission targets, saying he would not take unilateral action that ...More

NEW DELHI: Want to do your bit to combat climate change? Wear your jeans at least thrice before washing them and then do so in cold water, don't use the dryer and not the iron either, says the UN Envi ...More

CANBERRA: Coral is again flourishing in the crater left by the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated by the United States, 54 years after the blast on Bikini Atoll, marine scientists said on Tuesday. ...More

Washington, Apr 14: India has underlined the need for "fair burden sharing" and efforts to build "trust between developed and developing countries" for an effective global action on climate change. ...More

WASHINGTON: India and China should not be bound by the same restrictions on carbon emissions as those imposed on the United States and other developed nations, a top UN official has said. As US Presid ...More

WASHINGTON: India wants the rich nations to massively reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and provide more financial and technological help to the developing countries to deal with the problem ...More

WASHINGTON: India has proposed a set of steps, including 'climate proofing' of public infrastructure investments, food security and water resources that the developing countries can adopt to combat cl ...More

Developing countries, including China and India, are unwilling to sign up to a new global climate change pact to replace the Kyoto protocol in 2012 because the rich world has failed to set a clear exa ...More

LONDON: The head of the United Nations's scientific panel on climate change said in an interview published on Monday that developing countries were unwilling to sign up to a global deal on cutting car ...More

The U.N. climate change conference that concluded recently in Bangkok has made it clear that market-oriented arrangements such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and emission trading ushered in ...More

Shimla, April 13 After introducing the carbon credit facility (CCF) to encourage people to raise forests on private and community land under the World Bank-funded mid-Himalayan watershed development ...More

NEW DELHI: The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow, will set up a centre for business of climate change, director Devi Singh said. This would be the first business school in India to have ...More

GUWAHATI, April 12 – The impact of climate change on Assam will be devastating which will accelerate the rate of migration from countries like Bangladesh. The impact of such problems on regions like t ...More

NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister’s attempt to forge a National Action Plan on Climate Change has turned into a bone of contention between different ministries feuding over turf. With the issue of climate ...More

TOKYO: The prime ministers of Japan and France said on Friday they wanted to put global warming and African development high on the agenda when top industrial nations meet for the Group of Eight summi ...More