Rising sea levels have submerged two islands in the Sunderbans, where tigers roam through mangrove forests in the Ganges river delta, and a dozen more islands are under threat, scientists say. A

In the first expedition of its kind in the world, a Sino-India team of experts will climb up to the sources of the mighty Brahmputra and Sutlej rivers to collect data for developing a model to know

Foreign business have embraced an obscure United Nations backed programme as a favoured approach to limiting global warming, but the early efforts have revealed some hidden problems. Under the

More than 8,000 auto running on CNG and just five pumps to cater to them. Worse, just two of them run round-the-clock. Long queues for fuel refill, too many competitors, and the recent decision of

THE EUROPEAN Union's environment chief said on Monday he will seek a 30% cut in EU greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 as the bloc tries to set an example for the world on how to fight global warming.

The European Commission has agreed to a compromise proposal over its plans to include the aviation industry in its carbon-trading scheme, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Citing an

Planting trees could make global warming worse, according to research. Creating forests has become big business, but in some parts of the world it could actually raise temperatures, a team of

2006 is set to be the world's sixthwarmest year since records began 150 years ago, the World Meteorological Organization said, offering more evidence of a trend most scientists blame on greenhouse

The current year is expected to go down in history as the sixth warmest year on record with prolonged drought in some regions, heavy rainfall and flooding in others and deadly typhoons in south-east