UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged environment ministers on Wednesday to reject attempts by sceptics to undermine efforts to forge a climate change deal, stressing that global warming poses "a clear and present danger."

Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Prithviraj Chavan on Monday said that India

Conflict of interest in formulating climate policy and heading TERIi, which gets sizeable research funding in areas like glaciology and renewable energy and is a big player in green business opportunities.

In a bid to help fill scientific knowledge gap at the sub-regional level, India for the first time has agreed to provide key institutional inputs to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s Fifth Assessment Report, due in 2014.

NEW DELHI: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief R.K. Pachauri, battling calls for resignation due to a mistake in the IPCC report on Himalayan glaciers, found support from both the United Nation

NEW DELHI, Feb. 4: Embattled IPCC chief R.K. Pachauri on Thursday found support in UN

The UN has received pledges from 55 countries, accounting for 78 per cent of global emissions, to cut their share of greenhouse gases by 2050, a development welcomed by the world body as an ''important invigoration'' to the Copenhagen climate talks.

The number of people in southern Sudan in need of food assistance has more than quadrupled from almost one million in 2009 to 4.3 million this year because of conflict and drought, the U.N. food agency said on Tuesday.

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A mistaken claim about glaciers raises questions about the UN

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