London: Over a quarter of the world's land could become significantly drier even if global warming is limited to the target of two degree Celsius, according to scientists including one of Indian origi ...More

A new study now says that an increase of just 2°C in global temperatures could make the world turn drier and more desert-like. According to the study, the weather change would see more than a quarter ...More

A rise of just 2 degrees Celsius in global warming could make over a quarter of the world's land to become drier and more desert like, increasing the threat of widespread drought and wildfires, new re ...More

Over a quarter of the world’s land could become significantly drier even if global warming is limited to the target of two degree Celsius, according to scientists including one of Indian origin. The c ...More

PARIS: More than a quarter of Earth's land surface will become "significantly" drier even if humanity manages to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius, the goal espoused in the Paris Agreement, ...More

LONDON: Over a quarter of the world's land could become significantly drier even if global warming is limited to the target of two degree Celsius, according to scientists including one of Indian origi ...More

Hyderabad, Dec 31 (PTI) The tiger census is expected to be taken up in Telangana next month, a senior official of the state forest department has said. This would be the first census of the striped a ...More

Hyderabad, Dec 31 (PTI) The tiger census is expected to be taken up in Telangana next month, a senior official of the state forest department has said. This would be the first census of the striped a ...More

It is a piece of a larger puzzle that begins with an ice rise in East Antarctica. VikramGoel, 28, says he is not answering any big questions yet but is hopeful that what he has researched will be a st ...More

U.N. agency warns of long-term trend The year 2017 will likely be among the three warmest years on global record, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) The first 11 months of 2017 ...More

New Delhi: The phenomenon of climate change is making its magnanimous presence felt in a larger way, every day, every month. Loss of biodiversity, degrading ecosystem, ocean warming and the melting o ...More

While carbon pollution is known for its role in climate change, nitrogen pollution is fast emerging as a more challenging problem which may become a serious ecological threat. Nitrogen effluence must ...More

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court on Wednesday issued a notice to various authorities, including central ministries, in response to a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking to stop the release of un ...More

New Delhi: With air quality in the National Capital Region, centred on Delhi, hitting hazardous levels in the winters and air pollution a perennial problem across northern India, sustainable farming a ...More

New Delhi: The most challenging impacts that project environment change depend upon the rise of sea-level. The East Antarctic ice sheet is one of the two large ice sheets in Antarctica and the largest ...More

New Delhi: With air quality in the National Capital Region, centred on Delhi, hitting hazardous levels in the winters and air pollution a perennial problem across northern India, sustainable farming a ...More

Chemicals and household sewage flowing into Powai lake has made pollution in the water body eight times above safe standards, the union environment ministry told the Lok Sabha in a written statement o ...More

New Delhi, Dec 18 (PTI) A task force has been set up under the chairmanship of the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister to tackle the issue of air pollution in Delhi-NCR, the government said. ...More

The Centre has formulated the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) to tackle increasing air pollution across the country in a comprehensive manner, Parliament was informed Monday. Union Environment Mi ...More

New Delhi: A study finds that East Antarctic ice sheet, one of the two large ice sheets in Antarctica and the largest on the entire planet, may contribute substantially to global sea level rise. The ...More