Uncontrolled burning of paddy stubbles by Punjab farmers appears to be again putting the health of residents in the National Capital Region at risk, with Delhi's air quality falling sharply in the

The U.N.'s weather and climate agency said on Thursday there was no cause for alarm about a record-size hole this month in the ozone layer, that shields life on earth from the sun, as it should shr

The Antarctic ozone hole has swelled this month to one of its biggest sizes on record, UN and US scientists say, insisting that the Earth-shielding ozone layer remains on track to long-term recover

Strongest El Niño in decades, will have wide-ranging effects

India will now be one of the many countries where Nasa's airborne hyperspectral imaging campaign will take place which will closely monitor various changes taking place in the earth's atmosphere an

Researchers say discovery of stains from summertime flows down cliffs and crater walls increases chance of finding life on red planet

The pledges that countries are making to battle climate change would still allow the world to heat up by more than 6 degrees Fahrenheit, a new analysis shows, a level that scientists say is likely

The melting of the Arctic permafrost and the subsequent release of carbon dioxide and methane gas into the atmosphere will alone add an extra $43 trillion (£33tn) cost of climate change to the glob

Global temperature records continue to tumble, with August easily the hottest in 124 years of data, Japan's Meteorological Agency says.

Meteorologists are churning through the alphabet to come up with new names for storms, as what US space agency NASA dubs the "tropical train" spawns yet another cyclone.