As IPCC report warns of climate impact on food security, researchers are looking at whether talking about food could break political deadlock on global warming

The world will need far tougher curbs on greenhouse gases, by both developed nations and emerging economies, to keep global warming from exceeding a promised ceiling, a draft U.N. report shows.

Action plan 2014-2015 on disaster management (West Bengal)

A drought monitoring system is being developed in South Asia, in a collaboration between GWP and the IWMI. A first Assessment Report has been released by GWP South Asia and the GWP-WMO Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP). Over one billion people in South Asia are dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods.

After the Thar Desert, famine-like conditions are being felt in the hilly Kohistan area of district Thatta and if the government bureaucracy repeated slackness Sindh province may witness another hu

* Asia to face more extreme weather conditions
* India, China to see negative impact on wheat yield

If rich nations think they can escape unscathed from the damaging effects of global warming, it’s time for a re-check. The new report of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has one again sounded a warning bell about impending disasters, raising it to a whole new level this time.

India's high vulnerability and exposure to climate change will slow its economic growth, impact health and development, make poverty reduction more difficult and erode food security, a new report b

In a new mission, Nasa fixed a lumbering twin-engine plane with high-tech equipment to make regular snow surveys, starting last weekend in drought-stricken California before the weather front expec

Rs. 44.19-crore project to build check-dams has been shelved

A Rs. 44.19-crore proposal by the Minor Irrigation department to construct check-dams in the district to preserve the water table has been shelved with the State government refusing to spare funds.

International scientists will gather near Tokyo on Tuesday for a week-long meeting centred on a grim climate change report that warned of floods and drought that would stoke conflicts and wreak hav

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