Aviation and shipping should cut their respective carbon dioxide emissions to 10 and 20 percent below 2005 levels over the next decade, the European Union is likely to propose at global climate talks this week.

Over 100 air passengers who had arrived from New Delhi this afternoon were held up for more than an hour at the newly refurbished airport terminal as a group of farmers blocked the exit to protest against land being acquired for the Birsa Munda Airport

British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh will tell world leaders at the U.N. climate summit on Tuesday the aviation industry could halve its carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, a spokesman for the airline said on Monday.

Today at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) we are launching the Climate Passport program allowing travelers to offset the impact of their air travel through an airport kiosk. This will be the world's first airport kiosk-giving people the opportunity to calculate the environmental impact of their flights and purchase carbon offsets to address that impact while at the airport.

Thick vegetation, garbage dumped around the airport by residents makes it an ideal feeding ground
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Hovering choppers will raise noise levels to 100 dB say activists should helipads be allowed on private buildings in the coastal city of Mumbai? Would the din from helicopters make the city noisier? These are the questions the Maharashtra coastal zone management authority has to decide. On August 4 the authority called a meeting with those lobbying for private helipads and anti-noise

food security Ethiopia defends land grab Ethiopia, where 20 per cent of the people are in urgent need of food aid, defended its plan to offer 2.7 million hectares (ha) cultivable land to foreign companies.

Barely months after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh broke the impasse on the Navi Mumbai airport by clearing the amendment of the Coastal Regulation Zone Act to permit construction of greenfield airports, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has locked horns with the Maharashtra government and the Civil Aviation Ministry by reopening the debate on the selection of the site itself.

Exposure for a specific duration cures jet-lag PEOPLE who fly across time zones spend the first few days on ground in a daze, uncertain whether they should sleep or keep awake. Known as jet-lag, this disturbance in the pattern of sleep can lead to digestive problems, fatigue, disorientation and even mild depression. Some common remedies suggested include walking barefoot or