TOKYO: Japan plans to buy greenhouse gas credits from China as Tokyo struggles to meet obligations under the Kyoto climate change treaty to cut its emissions, a news report said on Thursday. The t ...More

SACRAMENTO (CALIFORNIA): California has sued the US government for denying its first-in-the-nation greenhouse gas limits on cars, trucks and sport utility vehicles, challenging the Bush administration ...More

STOCKHOLM: Bert Bolin, a pioneering Swedish climate scientist and co-founder of the UN's Nobel award-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has died, his colleague Henning Rodhe said today ...More

BANGALORE: Don’t be surprised if you see glowing lamps and bright fireworks in January. As global warming is causing a change in the seasons, festivals like Diwali might have to be rescheduled. On ...More

LUSAKA (Zambia): Resurgent global interest in nuclear power has made Zambia, a southern African nation better known for its vast copper reserves, into a hotbed of uranium exploration. The search for ...More

Washington: Cornell University researchers have proved a theory of how several plants transport sugars from their leaves to flowers, roots, fruits, and other parts of their structure. Robert Turgeon ...More

NEW DELHI: India’s national action plan on mitigation of climate change will be ready by 2008 and will focus on industries shifting to a low-carbon economy. Addressing a press conference here on Tue ...More

Dehra Dun, Dec 18: Several countries which participated in the recently concluded Bali convention on climate change had appreciated India’s efforts to maintain and conserve forest carbon stocks in dev ...More

New Delhi, Dec 18: Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday asked the Indian industry to start adopting cleaner technologies to help India become a low-carbon economy. “We need to take ...More

A paper, soon to be published by Oxford University, places India at the very bottom of the list of countries assessed to be morally responsible for climate change. After the tough time they faced at ...More

The conference of the UN Framework Convention on climate change held in Bali overcame considerable wrangling and produced the Bali Action Plan, a basic but promising road map to 2009, when major econo ...More

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations' Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the outcome of the landmark United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia. 187 countries agreed to launch a ...More

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations' Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the outcome of the landmark United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia. 187 countries agreed to launch a ...More

A paper, soon to be published by Oxford University, places India at the very bottom of the list of countries assessed to be morally responsible for climate change. After the tough time they faced at ...More

NEW DELHI: India has criticised the U.S. for voicing concerns over the provisions of the deal fixing a 2009 deadline for signing a new treaty to tackle global warming. Science and Technology Ministe ...More

Associated Press BALI, Dec. 13: As UN talks entered their final hours, European nations today threatened to boycott a US-led climate meeting next month unless Washington agrees to a deal mentioning ...More

NUSA DUA, BALI: The United States worsened the deadlock in the ongoing global climate change talks here on Thursday night, putting forward a proposal that seems to completely discard the international ...More

NUSA DUA, INDONESIA: Al Gore on Thursday delivered a rousing call for the world to take strong action to fight climate change without the United States, accusing his country of scuttling a key UN conf ...More

DILI: Negotiators from 190 countries meeting in Bali to discuss climate change have "a political and historical responsibility" to reach a deal, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday. Asked ...More

BALI: : Nobel laureate Al Gore accused the US on Thursday of blocking progress at the UN climate conference, and European nations threatened to boycott US-led climate talks next month unless Washingto ...More