The world’s oceans are rising at a faster rate than any time in the past 2,800 years, and might even have fallen without the influence of human-driven climate change, researchers say. Sea levels rose ...More

SYDNEY: Perched on a wild, windy promontory on the rugged tip of northwestern Tasmania, the tiny Cape Grim research station has been measuring airborne greenhouse gases since 1976. It is one of a h ...More

Local rescuers facing such cases since a week As winter comes to an end and temperatures spike to already- intolerable levels, several citizens have been taking steps to avoid issues caused by heat ...More

Junk the treadmill and do yoga to reduce your carbon footprint, exhorts India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests and Climate Change. A 21-page document on the Ministry’s website, ‘Low Carbon Lifest ...More

Australia’s biggest climate polluters increased their emissions in the year to July 2015, according to the latest data from Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator. Some of those companies have themselves ...More

Nagpur: Though 2015 was a landmark year for India in climate change initiatives, greens are apprehensive about the way Centre is going to divert attention from forests to fast track linear projects in ...More

Students from various colleges, employees of IT majors, volunteers from World Wide Fund for Nature, Helping Hands Organisation, and Kerala My Own Country came together to clean up the Shanghumughom be ...More

Paris: Scientists unveiled the first smoking-gun evidence Wednesday that growing ocean acidity caused by global warming is already stifling growth of vital coral reefs. The decline of shallow water c ...More

Paris: Scientists unveiled the first smoking-gun evidence on Wednesday that growing ocean acidity caused by global warming is already stifling growth of vital coral reefs. The decline of shallow wate ...More

Chennai: While academics across the country debated on global warming and its solutions, a team of 15 students and six faculty members of a city-based private university has been working on a satellit ...More

NEW DELHI: About 2,800 or nearly 90 per cent of critically polluting industrial units have installed 24X7 monitoring devices to check pollution after the government took a firm stand that factories ca ...More

NEW DELHI: About 2,800 or nearly 90 per cent of critically polluting industrial units have installed 24X7 monitoring devices to check pollution after the government took a firm stand that factories ca ...More

Geneva: World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel has struck a blow to India’s solar power programme, ruling that New Delhi violated global trade rules by imposing domestic content restr ...More

About 2,800 or nearly 90 per cent of critically polluting industrial units have installed 24X7 monitoring devices to check pollution after the government took a firm stand that factories can only func ...More

NEW DELHI: About 2,800 or nearly 90 per cent of critically polluting industrial units have installed 24X7 monitoring devices to check pollution after the government took a firm stand that factories ca ...More

The story of agriculture, which is the backbone of the country in terms of livelihoods, has not been good in the past two years. Agriculture GDP (gross domestic product) grew at (-)0.2% in 2014-15 and ...More

Reducing US climate emissions enough to avoid a two degree Celsius increase in global warming could prevent up to 175,000 pollution-related premature deaths nationwide by 2030, new research has estima ...More

Air quality has a strong bearing on India’s ability to sustain high economic growth, but national policy has treated the issue with scant importance. This is evident even from the meagre data on pollu ...More

Amidst concerns that growth of a country is accompanied by damage to its environment, President Pranab Mukherjee today said that both economic development and environmental protection can "co-exist". ...More

The worsening of tidal flooding in American coastal communities is largely a consequence of greenhouse gases from human activity, and the problem will grow far worse in coming decades, scientists repo ...More