The Bengaluru chapter of India Unites for Animals (IUFA), a nationwide movement against animal abuse, was launched on Sunday. The movement’s single-point agenda is to get the Animal Welfare Bill pa ...More

In a 54-acre manufacturing facility in Maharashtra's Shirwal town, about 190 km south of India’s financial capital, Mumbai, a man with protective eyewear used a gun-like device to pump Isobutane, a re ...More

Environmental groups say nations have reached a deal to limit the use of greenhouse gases far more powerful than carbon dioxide as part of efforts to fight climate change. At issue are hydrofluorocar ...More

In a landmark step to combat climate change, about 200 nations, including India, today struck a legally-binding deal after intense negotiations to phase down climate-damaging HFCs that have global war ...More

NEW DELHI: In a major development to curb use of climate-damaging refrigerants, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), 197 countries on Saturday agreed in Kigali, Rwanda to phase down the use of this super greenh ...More

KIGALI: Hopes were high on Friday that world envoys meeting in Rwanda will agree to phase out potent gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners that are one of the biggest contributors to global ...More

Nations working to reduce greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners may agree to set different deadlines, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday, raising hopes for a break ...More

NEW DELHI: In a major development to curb use of climate-damaging refrigerants, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), 197 countries on Saturday agreed in Kigali, Rwanda to phase down the use of this super greenh ...More

A comet strike may have triggered the rapid warming of Earth caused by an accumulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide 56 million years ago, which offers analogs to global warming today, researchers hav ...More

India, steering the negotiations on amendment in Montreal Protocol for phase down of HFCs at Kigali, Rwanda, has again taken the lead on the climate issues. Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave, has ...More

NEW DELHI: In a move signalling India’s commitment to taking steps to reduce the presence of heat-trapping refrigerant gases, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in the atmosphere that are contributing to globa ...More

Greenhouse gases that are more powerful than carbon dioxide are the focus of a global gathering this week in Africa. Experts say cutting hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, is the fastest way to reduce globa ...More

INDIA ON Thursday asked its industries to “urgently and immediately” destroy the most dangerous of all greenhouse gases, called HFC-23, bringing the first bout of excitement at the Kigali meeting of t ...More

NEW DELHI: In a move signalling India’s commitment to taking steps to reduce the presence of heat-trapping refrigerant gases, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in the atmosphere that are contributing to globa ...More

INDIA ON Thursday asked its industries to “urgently and immediately” destroy the most dangerous of all greenhouse gases, called HFC-23, bringing the first bout of excitement at the Kigali meeting of t ...More

Greenhouse gases that are more powerful than carbon dioxide are the focus of a global gathering this week in Africa. Experts say cutting hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, is the fastest way to reduce globa ...More

Kigali (Rwanda), Oct 12 (IANS) Environmental groups on Wednesday urged world leaders to come together for an ambitious deal to cut down heat-trapping super pollutants like hydrofluorocarbons and reaff ...More

KIGALI: Envoys from nearly 200 nations meet in Kigali on Thursday to discuss ridding the world of HFCs, gases introduced to save the ozone layer only to unwittingly assail Earth's climate. Representa ...More

An agreement to phase-down Hydrofluorocarbons would greatly increase chances to meet the world's climate goal to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, environment NGOs said today as the talks to amend ...More

GURGAON: The ritual of marking the victory of good over evil — burning Ravana effigies — had quite the opposite effect on air quality in Delhi-NCR, with the national capital, Gurgaon and Faridabad amo ...More