At least some of the weather extremes being seen around the world are consequences of human-induced climate change and can be expected to worsen in coming decades, a United Nations panel reported o

National Glaciers Within the last three decades, glaciers of Bhutan shrank by 189sqkm, less than half the size of one of the country’s smallest dzongkhags, Pemagatshel.

Calcutta, Nov. 18: The world is likely to get 10 times hotter in the next 90 years, a report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said.

The toll from ever-more intense floods, drought, and heatwaves will crescendo this century unless humanity anticipates the onslaught, according to a UN report set to be unveiled on Friday.

New Delhi: US President Barack Obama on Wednesday tried to make emerging economies like India accountable for the outcome at Durban climate talks.

New Delhi: Cloudbursts, such as the one that deluged Mumbai in 2005, could become a more frequent occurance.

Arctic Sea could be ice free by the summer of 2015, a leading ocean expert in Britain has claimed.

According to Prof Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University, the ice that forms over the Arctic sea is shrinking so rapidly that it may vanish altogether in four years' time, destroying the natural habitat of animals like polar bears.

Russia recognizes that concrete steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions need to be agreed at climate talks in South Africa next month before a globally binding climate deal can emerge by 2015, EU