Climate change and a lack of significant improvement in technology may lead to fall in global crop yield, forcing production to move to new areas, a study today warned. With a worldwide population pr ...More

In a move to save greeneries, Nagaland's Parliamentary Secretary for Planning & Coordination, Evaluation & Monitoring Cell NeibaKronu has initiated massive plantation drive at Pfutsero Assembly Consti ...More

The giant panda has long languished on the endangered species list, but an international monitoring group finally had some good news for it. The pandas were removed from the endangered list, along wit ...More

Bhubaneswar: Thousands of citizens from across the globe have come together under a single banner of India Unites For Animals (IUFA) – a citizens' initiative, a movement to achieve an inclusive world ...More

Most environmental studies on Bengaluru have repeatedly stated that intense urbanisation has taken a toll on the city's environment. Now, a ward-wise vulnerability assessment of the city concludes tha ...More

The environment ministers of BRICS nations on Friday announced setting up of a joint working group, institutionalising their mutual cooperation on green issues. The ministers, who met in South Goa dur ...More

WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday will join more than 20 countries to announce the creation of 40 new marine sanctuaries around the world to protect the world's oceans from the threat of clima ...More

CANSAULIM (Goa): India and China on Friday discussed the climate change issue of melting of Himalayan ranges on the sidelines of the eighth Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) enviro ...More

Washington: Arctic sea ice this summer shrank to its second lowest level since scientists started to monitor it by satellite, with scientists saying it is another ominous signal of global warming. Th ...More

Polar bears are losing life-sustaining sea ice crucial for hunting, resting and breeding in all 19 regions of the Arctic they inhabit, a study warned on Wednesday. As climate change pushes up Arctic ...More

International Day for Preservation of the Ozone Layer was observed at the AdiDravida Welfare Middle School, Udayadi on Friday. Tribal Foundation Managing Trustee S.S. Davidson organised the programme ...More

Panaji, Sep 16 (IANS) Holding climate change responsible for the shrinking of glaciers in the Himalayas, Union Minister Anil Dave on Friday said both India and China were "concerned" about the degrada ...More

Climate change is responsible for reduction in the volume of Himalayan glaciers, Union Minister Anil Dave said today, while adding that countries located around the mountain ranges cannot be held resp ...More

Speaking at a BRICS environment ministers' meeting, he said this was the effect of global climate change and they were working out ways to address the matter Stating that the rapid melting of glacier ...More

BARCELONA: At least 20 countries have indicated they will join the Paris climate change agreement at a United Nations event on Sept. 21, adding to the 27 that have already done so and raising hopes th ...More

International participants at a high-level conference on the world’s oceans pledged more than $5.3 billion for conservation and designated vast areas as protected waters, US Secretary of State John Ke ...More

As the election looms, Obama's plan to save the planet kicks into high gear. Last month, POTUS vastly expanded Hawaii's Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, turning it into the world' ...More

Moscow, Sep 15: Five Russian meteorologists at a remote weather station in the Arctic are currently being besieged by about 10 polar bears for nearly two weeks on Troynoyisland. A passing ship has ...More

Speaking ahead of the Our Ocean conference in Washington D.C hosted by US Secretary of State John Kerry, the UK’s Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan said that four million sq.km of ocean will b ...More

NEW DELHI: Environment ministry on Thursday announced an ambitious collaborative R&D programme to develop next generation sustainable refrigerant technologies as alternatives to the climate-damaging h ...More