Nepal has made significant efforts towards low-emission development, using government tools to encourage finance flows towards climate action. However, achieving its ambitions will be difficult given current
FREDDY DIAS outlines the threats climate change poses to Goa, and stresses the need for immediate action to counter it
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, along with senior officials, left on Tuesday for Italy to attend the G-8 and G-5 Outreach summit. The global financial meltdown, energy security and climate change are some of the core issues that will be focused on in the summit.
Indian scientists, who have been monitoring fluctuations in the continental ice margin at the Western Schirmacher range in Antarctica, have found a recession of about 7 metres ice per decade
The modern Arctic Ocean is regarded as a barometer of global change and amplifier of global warming and therefore records of past Arctic change are critical for palaeoclimate reconstruction.
Explosion of animal life could have been triggered by blanket of vegetation.
Emissions targets, clean-energy projects and calls for justice are multiplying, reports Jeff Tollefson.
Not a single penny from 300-crore Taka Climate Change Fund allocated for 2008-09 fiscal either was released or spent due to indecision of the governments.
The average American family would pay at most $1 a day more to fight climate change, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency told a Senate committee on Tuesday.
Major economies tried on Tuesday to break the deadlock between rich and poor nations over 2050 goals for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions at a last-minute meeting before an expanded G8 summit in Italy.
Across the globe an emerging El Nino weather pattern threatens to cause droughts and floods and trigger a spike in planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from burning forests. El Nino is a warming of tropical Pacific waters that affects wind circulation patterns. Its effects on the global climate vary from one event to the next.
