Cities everywhere are trying to renew themselves in ways that will make them more accessible to people. In a world that is warming abnormally, many cities are keen to cut wasteful energy consumption b ...More

SACRAMENTO (California): California will impose broad caps on its greenhouse-gas emissions under a landmark plan that marks a clear break with the Federal government and which backers hope will become ...More

While the business-as-usual brigade, led by respective presidents of the US remained in deep denial for three decades since the 1970s, events such as melting glaciers, coral bleaching and torm surges ...More

Says this will facilitate transfer of technology · U.S. imposes non-negotiable 3-8 p.c. tariff on such imports · Asia-Pacific Partnership can influence movement on GHG emission targets N ...More

OSLO: Ice Age evidence confirms that a doubling of greenhouse gases could drive up world temperatures by about 3 degrees Celsius, causing havoc with the climate, a study said. The researchers made ...More

"Chief Minister is for investing more in latest technologies to improve efficiency in power plants" CHENNAI: "The State Government is in the process of formulating an energy efficiency policy ...More

Task forces to submit reports by month-end New Delhi , Aug. 22 With an aim to promote clean technology adoption by six member countries, the Asia Pacific Partners (APP), led by the US, would talk ...More

TOWARDS CLEAN TECH: (From right) Mr James L. Connaughton, Chairman, White House Council on Environmental Quality; Mr Tarun Das, Chief Mentor, CII; Mr Gautam Thapar, Vice-Chairman, and MD, Ballarpur In ...More

A single animal species is likely to become extinct from different locations on Earth around the same time if a common external factor, or ‘‘forcing’’, is applied, say two Indian researchers. In a j ...More

`333 projects have been given approval till July 31' The break-up Of the 333 projects approved at the domestic level, 106 involve energy efficiency (projects where green house gas reductions are ...More

Two-day ecological seminar jointly organised by the NCC Group Headquarters, Bhopal and World Wide Fund (WWF) for nature was inaugurated by Collector Bhopal, SK Mishra on Friday evening. The seminar be ...More

BANGALORE: Prof Raman Sukumar, Chairman of the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, has been awarded the 2006 International Cosmos Prize in recognition of his achievements in t ...More

MURDEROUS MAYHEM in the Middle East sends oil prices through the roof — $78 a barrel and climbing. In the U.K., electricity prices are up 35 per cent in two years, gas prices up 53 per cent. So the Br ...More

MURDEROUS MAYHEM in the Middle East sends oil prices through the roof — $78 a barrel and climbing. In the U.K., electricity prices are up 35 per cent in two years, gas prices up 53 per cent. So the Br ...More

described as “near threatened species”. Scientists believe that were it not for a number of conservation initiatives, another 25 species would have become extinct, including 10 species within the pas ...More

Navin Fluorine International stock continued to drift downward even as the company moved towards generating and trading carbon credit. A section of market players is understood to be selling in absenc ...More

Programme for clean environment policy being taken seriously The trend of events going carbon neutral has caught up over the past 2-3 years, particularly in Europe. New Delhi , July 2 Conc ...More

It expects to generate Rs 10,000 crore by way of carbon credits · Country adopting Clean Development Mechanisms · It has invested Rs 17,000 crore in CDM projects · Rapid increase in carbon ...More

The urgency of saving the wildernesses of the Western Ghats from death cannot be overemphasised: we are running out of time. THE GREAT montane wildernesses of the Western Ghats, in particular the gr ...More

New Delhi, June 27 The impact of global warming and freak weather is visible everywhere in our daily lives, whether it is mild winters in cold countries like Russia, unexpected flooding across Europe ...More