Development is proving more and more unsustainable: Pachauri

CHENNAI: The present challenge faced by the world lies in returning to a path of sustainable development and this is much bigger than meeting the threat of climate change, R.K. Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said here on Saturday.

Climate change will affect basic needs and access to food resources...It will also have an impact on agriculture productivity and fresh water availability }

To give an impetus to the study of Indian glaciers, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has signed a first-of-its-kind Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Mountaineering Federation (IMF), hoping to combine the scientific study and assessment of India

Will Maldives cease to exist, engulfed by seas rising from the effects of global warming?

Barun Roy / New Delhi April 9, 2009, 0:17 IST

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NEW DELHI: The Energy and Resources Institute and the Indian Mountaineering Foundation on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding to study, preserve and safeguard the Himalayan glaciers under the National Mission of Sustaining the Himalayan Eco-system.

LONDON: The massive Antarctic iceberg is

Major climatic changes due to global warming would lead to disturbed rainfall patterns in the country, an eminent environmentalist said on Sunday.

"The rise in global warming will lead to major changes in rainfall patterns. In essence rainfall will decrease and become more erratic, said RK Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.