Insurers call climate change the ‘mother of all risks’
The UK is set to miss a hardly ambitious target of providing 15 per cent of the country’s energy needs from renewable sources by 2020, […]
Global Warming
Agreements announced to boost India’s Clean Energy and Environment portfolio
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced five new partnerships, four of which are with the Government of India, to expand U.S.-India […]
Ocean Warming To impact food production in India: Study
Food security of India and several other major key food producing countries are threatened by changing weather patterns due to warming of the oceans, which […]
Young India Social Innovation Summit 2016 on 29 & 30 Sept
Young India Social Innovation Summit 2016 is taking place at Bhubaneswar on 29 & 30 Sept. It will represent a national convening of social innovators […]
Climate change: Trade liberalization could buffer economic losses in agriculture
Global warming could create substantial economic damage in agriculture, a new study conducted by a team of scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact […]
Human activity has been causing global warming for almost two centuries, Study
Human activity has been causing global warming for almost two centuries, says new research, proving that human-induced climate change is not just a 20th century […]
Climate change linked to rise in kidney ailments
Chennai: When a mystery kidney disease killed more than 20,000 people in Central America over the course of a decade, it set alarm bells ringing […]
What If Global Warming Emptied India?
In an armchair experiment where humans are thought of as no wiser than animals, scientists have found that climate change could empty some nations by […]
India should adopt a one-child policy
Since Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of India, he has taken several positive initiatives and formulated a number of innovative schemes, including the ‘Make […]
‘Water bodies under threat’
Observed annually to raise global awareness of the need to take positive environmental action, World Environment Day (WED) looks at ways for making our world […]