Global warming could spell the end of the world's largest remaining tropical rain forest, transforming the Amazon into a grassy savanna before the end of the century, researchers said. Jose Antonio

Several citizens' groups including environmentalists and parliamentarians joined hands and called for a ban on soft drinks manufactured by MNCs Pepsi and Coke, which have been given a clean chit by

Mr V.K. Raina, an expert on glacier studies, pooh-poohed claims that glaciers on the Himalayas were receding at an alarming rate. He described such reports as more of scientific fiction than fact,

One of the world's leading climate scientists has challenged those who question the impact of the human population on global warming to defend their claims that car and factory emissions of carbon

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