Delhi will join 91 other countries in switching off their lights for Earth Hour at 8.30 pm sharp across the globe.

Kolkata: The World Wide Fund for Nature has warned that days are numbered for much of the sensitive Sunderbans eco-system and in 60 years, vast tracts of the mangroves, home to the Bengal tiger, will go under sea.

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A roomful of reporters, whirring TV cameras and popping camera flashes. Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, the world's climate czar, is used to such attention. As chairman of a UN body appointed to study the impact of climate change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with Al Gore, he earned plaudits.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The WWF-India, in association with Centre for Environment and Development and supported by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests, will organise a National Environment Awareness Campaign-2010 on February 8.In Thiruvananthapuram, the programme will be held at Museum Auditorium, at 10 a.m.

Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the earth keeps warming at the current rate.

Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Thursday appointed a three-member expert committee to study the tidal movement of the Mithi river after construction of a 300-metre long wall on the Vakola Nalla. The committee, which has been told to submit a report in four week, will also look at the effects the wall construction has on the surrounding mangroves.

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The increasing global temperature may spell doom for the Sunderban tigers as a WWF study has cautioned that rise of 28 centimetre in sea levels will engulf 96 per cent of their habitat.

The increasing global temperature may spell doom for the Sunderban tigers as a WWF study has cautioned that rise of 28 centimetre in sea levels will engulf 96 per cent of their habitat.

The findings, though specific for Bangladesh, may be a cause of concern for India as well because the Sunderbans are spread across India and Bangladesh having same ecosystem and tiger population.