PATNA: Climatic changes observed due to rapid pace of urbanisation in the past few decades came up for detailed discussion when geographers from across the country congregated to take part in the IXth ...More

The Forest Governance Learning Group delegates have urged that conservation of Forestry across the world be made a part of the Kyoto Protocol. They have projected forests across the world as the mediu ...More

JAKARTA: A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck off Bali island in Indonesia on Friday, officials said, and it was strongly felt at the UN climate conference in the resort island. The earthquake, which hit ...More

BERLIN: Saudi Arabia and the US do the least to protect the climate while Sweden does the most, according to a report by a German environmental group published on Friday. Germanwatch's Climate Change ...More

UNITED NATIONS: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the US President George Bush are among the world leaders with whom United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has been discussing the issue of clima ...More

The United States is isolated among rich nations in opposing Kyoto at the Bali conference NUSA DUA (Indonesia), December 7: Washington will consider agreeing to binding caps on greenhouse gas emissi ...More

Bali: Sources close to the Indian delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference here suggest the so-called “Bali breakthrough” might be harder to achieve ...More

NEW YORK: : Delhi is introducing new eco-friendly compressed natural gas buses that will create 18,000 new jobs while Brazil’s ethanol programme has lead to half a million new jobs, he said quoting a ...More

A number of international and Indian experts participated in the conference Case study on a country implementing a successful eco-tourism model NEW DELHI: A number of international and Indian ex ...More

The real issues in Bali are not technical or economic. The crisis we face demands a profound discussion, a reappraisal of who we are and what progress means. When you warn people about the danger ...More

Nusa Dua, December 5: Protecting tropical rainforests, which soak up vast amounts of greenhouse gases, is proving a real headache at the UN-led climate talks in Bali, where delegates are trying to sor ...More

PARIS: The number of people threatened by coastal flooding could more than triple by 2070 due to climate change while the financial impact could surge by tens of trillions of dollars, according to a p ...More

BALI: Developing nations at the UN Climate Change Conference demanded rapid transfers of technology to help them combat global warming, while a report warned that some of Asia's biggest cities could b ...More

CHENNAI: More research on climate change and insects should be taken up, eminent agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan said on Wednesday. Speaking at the Prof. M.S. Mani birth centenary symposium on ...More

Environmental activist from Uganda Gaster K Kiyingi who along with delegates from 11 countries is in the capital for attending FGLG conference opined "Leading democracies of the world like India and S ...More

NUSA DUA, December 4: A 190-Nation climate meeting in Bali began a hunt for a new global deal to fight global warming by 2009 on Tuesday with skirmishing about how far China and India should curb surg ...More

Punjab Minister of Public Relations, Science, Technology and Environment on Tuesday said that conservation of energy would be given priority in the State and a media campaign will be launched soon. ...More

In awarding the Nobel peace prize to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore, the Nobel Committee recognised climate change as the most serious problem affecting human securit ...More

NEW DELHI: India has called for collaboration between developing and developed countries in creating technologies to deal with climate change while ensuring energy security and economic growth. At the ...More

KOLKATA: Activists aboard the Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior, have readied themselves for their upcoming engagement with climate change in the Sunderbans. The ship, which sailed into the Kolka ...More