Australian stockbrokers are planning to implement an emissions trading market within the next year. The move will be one of the first concrete realisations of proposals originally mooted at the 1997

EI Nino and La Nina, the periodic global weather phenomena, played havoc with the agricultural systems, food supply chains besides life and property of people in several continents this year. Damage

The centre has decided to bear half the maintenance cost of irrigation projects after failing to persuade state govenemnts to raise irrigation cess which partly funds the cost. The pending

The first geoscientific data centre of the country, which was inaugurated at the Geological Survey of India in Calcutta today will serve as the largest repository of knowledge on earth sciences of

Doomsday seas to ravage India in 2050:Doomsday now has a date. ALmost. By the year 2050, sea-levels will rise by 21 centimetres and ravage the coasts of India and its neighbouring countries, global

Argentina has called on developing nations to do more to reduce greenhouse gases, opening the biggest U.N. climate conference since a global warming treaty in December. Late yesterday, developing

The Supreme Court in the 'Almatti Dam Case' today has directed that till further orders of the court, the construction of crest gates at Almatti dam will not begin till January,

As goverments gathered at Buenos Aires to resume talks on how to combat climate change, Greenpeace warned that impacts of this global phenomenon are already appearing. The melting and retreating of

Climate change could put 18 per cent more of the population of Africa at risk of hunger by the 2050s than would otherwise be the case, scientists said. An analysis of the impact of global warming

As patron of the Peoples' Empowerment Mission, former Union Environment & Forests Minister, Prof. Saifuddin Soz joined hands with the UNESCO in organising a seminar on "climate change - impact and