Kigali: Environmental groups on Wednesday urged world leaders to come together for an ambitious deal to cut down heat-trapping super pollutants like hydrofluorocarbons and reaffirm their Paris commitm ...More

Senior State Department officials said on Wednesday they were "optimistic" that a deal on cutting greenhouse gases used in refrigerators, air conditioners and aerosols can be struck during meetings in ...More

A European Union decision on whether to include international flights in its scheme to curb airline pollution will not come until next year at the earliest after the bloc's executive has assessed a gl ...More

NEW DELHI: This week representatives and ministers from 195 countries are meeting in the Rwanda capital of Kigali under the aegis of the United Nations to finalise a time table for reducing the use of ...More

MUMBAI: The importance of organic farming has increased while keeping in view the immediate menace of climate change. That is why the Government of India has launched a ParamparagatKrishiVikasYojna (P ...More

NEW DELHI: To better study and quantify the Himalayan glacier responses towards the climate change, the Centre has established a high altitude research station in Himalaya situated above 13,500 ft at ...More

Kigali (Rwanda): A British charity on Tuesday warned that if the nearly 200 countries participating in a climate change conference here don’t agree on an ambitious date for ending the use of hydrofluo ...More

Last week has been of great significance in the fight against climate change. The Paris Agreement received the required number of ratifications, and will become international law from November 4, thre ...More

On Monday, another round of Montreal Protocol talks will kick off in Kigali, Rwanda, with 191 countries negotiating a global deal to replace heat-trapping refrigerant gases with climate-friendly alter ...More

Oslo/Washington: India will face pressure to speed up its plans for cutting greenhouse gases used in refrigerators, air conditioning and aerosols when governments meet this week to hammer out what wou ...More

After the coastal road project was stuck owing to delay in approvals, another of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) ambitious projects has hit a roadblock. The construction and upgrading o ...More

Japan will seek to ratify the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement to cut emissions and prevent climate change as soon as possible, after support from European nations sent the accord over an important ...More

New Delhi: India is close to being categorised as "water scarce", Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti on Friday said, citing increasing demand, uncertain availability and overexploitation of riv ...More

The year was 2007. Then state environment minister, Sailen Sarkar, was having an informal chat with a few environment experts and some senior Kolkata-based journalists over a cup of tea in his chamber ...More

The United Nations’ aviation arm overwhelmingly ratified an agreement Thursday to control global warming emissions from international airline flights, the first climate-change pact to set worldwide li ...More

HYDERABAD: Set out to any place in the city and you will see piles of plastic disposed. This is the case despite a ban on the usage of plastic below 40 microns which was passed by the Greater Hyderaba ...More

With the aim to create awareness and sensitize the public, department of environment, forest and climate change along with Nagaland Motorcycle Club organized a motor rally as part of the wildlife week ...More

Paris: Global emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane may be double current estimates, posing an added challenge in the fight against climate change, researchers said today. The new study is b ...More

Anthropogenic activity is turning the city warmer and could be raising it’s mean temperature by about 0.18 degree Celsius every decade. A study published recently by scientists from Pune’s Indian Ins ...More

New Delhi: The government has banned the use of plastic for packaging gutkha, tobacco and pan masala, as it seeks to reduce generation of non-biodegradable waste such as pouches and sachets. “The bra ...More