Washington: Buildings destroyed by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake released thousands of tonnes of climate-warming and ozone-depleting chemicals into the atmosphere, finds a new study.The new study suggests that the thousands of buildings destroyed and damaged
Sydney: In their most comprehensive forecast yet, Australia's national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) and Bureau of Meteorology, have predicted temperature rises of up to 5.1c in Australia by 2090.CSIRO
New Delhi: India was "positive" and "proactive" in its approach to climate change negotiations that were concluded in Lima last week, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Friday.Unveiling a publication on climate change adaptation, he
Lima: Crucial UN climate talks, already into extra time, today remained deadlocked as the developing countries rejected the compromise outline after the US and China clashed over the draft text of the envisioned global climate
Lima: Thousands of activists today marched through the streets of the Peruvian capital, demanding swift action on climate change and asking policymakers to make a 100 per cent shift to renewable energy by the year
Lima: Terming India as a "very important player" in the climate change negotiations, the US has said it is not involved in any agreement on climate with India ahead of President Obama's Republic Day visit
Lima: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged countries attending a climate conference in Peru's capital Lima for a "balanced, well-structured and coherent draft text" of an agreement envisaged for 2015.Addressing the 20th Conference of
Washington: Climate change could undermine efforts to defeat extreme poverty around the globe, the World Bank has warned.In a new report on the impact of global warming, the bank said sharp temperature rises would cut
New Delhi: The Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change was reconstituted on Wednesday, days ahead of a crucial UN meet on global warming in Peru.While TERI chairperson R.K. Pachauri, Nitin Desai and retired diplomat Chandrasekhar
New Delhi: President Mukherjee will be on his five – day visit to Finland and Norway starting from tomorrow, thus being the first Indian President to not only cross the Arctic Circle but also visit
New Delhi: Rising temperatures are forcing a huge, untold number of species to move their homes northward or climb to higher altitudes, says an alarming study.Global warming and changing rainfall patterns have resulted in shifts
United Nations: Warning that the cost of climate change is ‘fast becoming unbearable', UN Chief Ban Ki-moon has asked an unprecedented gathering of world leaders to take action to reverse global warming and begin to
New Delhi: Two days ahead of the United Nations Climate Summit, where more than 120 world leaders will convene for a meeting aimed at galvanising political will for a new global climate treaty by the
New York: New York City was the scene of a huge and colourful demonstration against climate change with more than 300,000 people turning out as part of an international initiative to raise awareness about the
New Delhi: Sending out a signal to the developed world on the issue of climate change, India today said developing countries like it have “a right to grow” and in the process “our net emission
Washington, July 16: Sea levels may rise by about 2.3 meters for each degree celsius of global warming within the next 2,000 years, an international team of researchers has said.While thermal expansion of the ocean
New Delhi, Dec 9: For a millennium, the majestic, lily-white polar bear has lorded over the frozen wastes of the Arctic. But if two Russian experts are to be believed, the enigmatic “monarch of the
Porbandar (Guj), Oct 2 : Ideals of Mahatma Gandhi offer solution to overcome various universal issues including global warming, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said on the occasion of the 143rd birth anniversary of Father
New Delhi, Mar 31: Delhiites tonight joined millions of people across the globe to observe the Earth Hour by switching off electrical appliances for an hour to pledge support to combat the threat of global
A retired Indian engineer is waging his own one-man battle to stop global warming melting away the Himalayan glaciers: He claims he has discovered a way to create new glaciers, reports The Telegraph, London.Chewang Norphel,
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