New Delhi: Janata Party president Subramaniam Swamy told the Supreme Court on Friday that experts had warned against going ahead with the Rs 2,400 crore Sethusamudram project in a development that could land the government in an embarassing position.

While world environmental risk analysts have expressed fears over extreme climate changes in South Asian nations including Sri Lanka, U.N. climate panel chairman said the world could still cap global warming at far lower levels than widely expected if nations

Inspired by the Delhi government

Chairman of the Nobel-winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) RK Pachauri today said the G8 nations had

R.K. Pachauri

CHENNAI: R.K. Pachauri, chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and director-general, The Energy and Resources Institute, has taken over as chairman, governing council, National Agro Foundation (NAF), a press release issued by the Foundation said.

CHENNAI: When the Tata Nano was unveiled just over a year ago, IPCC chief R.K. Pachauri said the Rs.1 lakh-small car would give him nightmares. Today, with thousands queuing up to book the people

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 }

R.K. PACHAURI, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) head and climate change leader will soon leave for the 30th session of the IPCC in Turkey where work on the Fifth IPCC report will start.

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.

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