A European Union law that charges airlines for carbon emissions is "a deal-breaker" for global climate change talks, environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan said, hardening her stance on a scheme that has drawn fierce opposition from non-EU governments. ...

TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) in association with Sanctuary Asia and Deutsche Bank organised 'The GreenKarbon Debate' on the conjoined issues of environment and development. This Debate saw green campaigners, economists, policy makers and corp...

The Sunderbans, spreading across West Bengal and Bangladesh, is fast emerging as the climate change flashpoint of the globe. Despite the warning signals of increased frequency of cyclones and tidal floods, the West Bengal government has drawn up a massive...

Shrinking sea ice, snow and glaciers, especially in high-latitude regions where water is frozen for sometime, the cryosphere, is affecting the ecosystem in hidden ways. Scientists have already recorded how some larger animals, such as penguins and polar b...

Patches of forest measuring anywhere between 0.1 hectare to 1200 hectares and which are bio-diversity hot spots have been unique to Meghalaya for centuries, but now they are falling into disarray owing to reasons as diverse as poverty, cultural change and...

After two decades working as a Democrat senator in the US Congress - and five years as under secretary of state for global affairs in the Clinton administration - Timothy Wirth quit politics to become president of the United Nations Foundation, a non-prof...

With the Rio+20 Earth Summit in June nearing, climate change issues are heating up. One sticky issue is the carbon emission tax on airlines imposed by the European Union (EU) from January this year. India and China, along with 22 other countries, have dec...

Union minister of state, PMO, V Narayanasamy urged research scholars and scientists to focus on reducing the cost of solar power and increasing efficiency of its production at the valedictory function of the international conference on 'Renewable Energy a...

Harvard scientists are helping show the fullest picture of how global spikes in carbon dioxide (CO2) combined to finish off the last ice age 20,000 to 10,000 years ago.Researchers compiled ice and sedimentary core samples collected from dozens of worldwid...

The Advisor to Ministry of Environment and Forests, G. V. Subrahmanyam, has said that people's participation in environment protection alone can bring the desired results more than any number of legislations brought by the Government. Environment Protect...

The northern region of Gujarat State in western India (map) is semi-arid and prone to droughts, receiving almost all of its rain during the monsoon season between June and September. But for the past three decades, many crop and dairy farms have remained...

Mountain countries from around the world are seeking a common voice in global climate change negotiations to draw attention to the vulnerabilities of mountain areas. As part of this effort, government and nongovernmental representatives from 30 countries...

Under the flagship project Climate EduXchange, an initiative of TERI and DELL that aims at harnessing the power of ICT (Information, Communication and Technology) to reach out to students and teachers on key issues related to Climate Change, schools, coll...

Environmental activist R K Pachauri today pressed for greater use of information and communication technology (ICT) to reach out to society on key issues related to climate change and sustainable development.Greater use of ICT needed to create environment...

Some corals could survive global warming, say scientists. An international team, working in the central Pacific, has discovered that coral, which has survived heat stress in the past, is more likely to survive it in the future, the PLoS One journal report...

The Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (CEFIPRA) on Monday launched a multi-disciplinary Indo-French research project titled ‘Adaptation of Irrigated Agriculture to Climate Change (AICHA). The study aims at developing an integrate...

After the differences at Durban over carbon reduction, India has an opportunity to mend fences with the least developed countries. New Delhi can lend support to the detailed plan for increased emission reduction by developed countries put forward by the ...

India's tech hub late Saturday partly plunged into darkness for an hour, as public and private organisations, companies, malls and shops joined thousands of greens to turn off lights for saving the earth from climate change. From 8.30 pm onwards, several ...

The Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education director general, VK Bahuguna, said that the unique Indo-African partnership can provide help to India and the African nations for tackling climate change and desertification. At the conclusion of a tw...

New York's Empire State Building, Delhi's India Gate, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and the Sydney Opera House were plunged into darkness on Saturday for the annual Earth Hour campaign, leading a global effort to raise awareness about climate change. In the ...