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With the small island countries and the least developed states veering towards the European line on climate change, the larger developing economies came together with African countries, binding around the BASIC four – India, China, South Africa and Brazil – to demand that principles of equity and ‘common but differentiated responsibility’ be operationalised in the post-2020 climate regime.

Engineers have developed a way of using lasers to remove ink from paper so it can be reused in printers and photocopiers.

After a decade of promise, advanced biofuels makers are entering a crucial make-or-break period with the first of a new generation of production facilities about to come on line.

Tiger population revival programme in India has received a boost with one more tigress named T-2 giving birth to three cubs in the Panna Tiger Reserve (PTR), in eastern Madhya Pradesh.

Goa's lone zoo tucked in Bondla wildlife sanctuary will soon have birds on display in two aviaries, designed for wetland and terrestrial birds.

A new computational study has concluded that pollution is warming the atmosphere through summer thunderstorm clouds.

Goa's lone zoo tucked in Bondla wildlife sanctuary will soon have birds on display in two aviaries, designed for wetland and terrestrial birds.

Weather scientists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology are studying high resolution climate projections over South Asian Monsoon region which is expected to contribute to future crop and water management and planning in India.

Throwing an audacious challenge to the state forest department, the poachers have struck once again, killing a tiger in Chandrapur forest range. The mutilated carcass of a tiger - sans head and paws and chopped into 10 pieces - was recovered in Borda jungle along Chichpalli-Borda road on Friday morning.

On Wednesday, a jungle cat, which was mistakenly identified as a leopard, was lynched to death by villagers in spite of the forest department’s efforts to control the mob.

Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha's Kendrapara district have taken into custody the kingpin of a poaching racket while making a seizure of 25 kg of raw deer meat from the protected mangrove forest areas, official sources said.

The Gujarat Ecological Education and Research (GEER) Foundation, an autonomous body of Forests and Environment department, will carry out a vultures' census in association with local NGOs in the state on May 26 and 27.

Wildlife experts and foresters are working with the Uttar Pradesh government to set up a conservation centre for vultures, whose population has drastically fallen in India.

A scientific study published on Wednesday revealed that the Himalayas, one of world’s richest biodiversity zones, is warming faster than other parts of the globe.

Twenty one forest fires are burning on a total of 3,085 hectares including 2,600 hectares in Buryatia and 485.7 hectares in Khabarovsk territory, officials said.

Environment and Forests Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said her ministry is constantly looking into the reasons behind the recent tiger deaths.

The struggle against the reduced flow and pollution in the holy Ganga is increasing. The people associated with Ganga Seva Abhiyanam assembled at different points and highlighted the significance of the river for three hours on Tuesday.

Australia has been ranked as the seventh top polluter mainly due to carbon emissions, a World Wildlife Fund report said.

While some 1,200 airlines had complied with the EU requirements, eight Chinese and two Indian airlines representing less than three percent of aviation emissions in the 27-nation bloc had refused.

Unless the world addresses the problem, by 2030 even two planet Earths would not be enough to sustain human activity, WWF said.

The pleasing incense filling the atmosphere during aarati and other rituals has been overcome by the strong odour of garbage. This is the scene at one of the most spectacular ghats in the city, the Dasaswamedh Ghat.

Jayanthi Natarajan told Lok Sabha today that West Bengal has the highest number of red category industries causing high pollution, followed by Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.

Tamil Nadu government today proposed setting up a butterfly park in chief minister J Jayalalithaa's constituency Srirangam.

The founder of conservation group Sea Shepherd, which annually disrupts Japan's whale hunt, has been arrested in Frankfurt for extradition to Costa Rica.

A young tiger was found dead in the tourist zone of Bandhavgarh tiger reserve in the eastern part of Madhya Pradesh on Saturday, officials said.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to table White Paper on black money in Parliament today, providing information about black money stashed abroad.

Dressed in a bright T-shirt and shorts, at first glance, Satyam Kumar looks like any other ordinary 12-year-old, but his achievement of cracking the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) entrance exam ...

Delhi Police on Sunday recorded the statement of Mumbai businessman Sahil Peerzada who corroborated the version provided by his fiancee, an American citizen who was allegedly molested by Australian cr...

The monthly pension of Rs 200 given to the elderly is "an insult to the dignity of an individual", Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has said, requesting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to immedi...

As sky gazers in various parts of the world gear up to watch Monday's annular solar eclipse - a rare event in which the sun will appear as a thin ring behind the moon - people in India will miss the '...

In a bid to mount pressure on India, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has talked to his counterpart Manmohan Singh to express concern over the situation involving two Italian marines held in Kerala ...

In addition to Rabindranath Tagore songs, pedestrians and motorists in the city are now being treated to a song glorifying the theme "Ma Mati Manush" at traffic intersections to commemorate the comple...

Five days after he was allegedly attacked, a Karnataka Administrative Service (KAS) officer, who was also reportedly a whistle-blower in a controversial land allotment case, died at a private hospital...

AK-47s continue to be the preferred assault weapon for the country's paramilitary forces deployed to neutralise terrorists and Maoists at the frontiers and in the hinterland.

Former Indian cricketer Kirti Azad began a fast today, demanding that the Indian Premier League, which has been a hit by a series a controversies, be scrapped. Azad, who is also a Bharatiya Janata ...

It's been a year since Mamata Banerjee stormed to power in West Bengal after ending the Left Front's 34-year rule. And the state government is celebrating the occasion by highlighting its achievements...

Presidential polls: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa has asked political parties to back PA Sangma as presidential candidate.

Devotees usually carry offerings to a temple but the devout visiting the world famous Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi will now get something to take back- 'pious' manure.

Aspiring doctors will have to spend a year working in rural areas before getting their MBBS degrees, as the government has decided to make rural posting compulsory for them.

A top Maoist leader Vivek alias Kumar operating mainly in south India has been arrested in Chennai. However the woman accompanying him considered to be his live-in partner, escaped.

A legal defamation notice has been reportedly sent to Sidhartha Mallya, director of the IPL franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore, for his remarks on micro-blogging site Twitter in the molestation cas...

A Delhi court today granted bail to Royal Challengers Bangalore player Luke Pomersbach, who is accused of molesting a US citizen on Thursday night. The court today after examining the CCTV footage fro...

After opposing the establishment of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today voiced his protest against certain provisions proposed in the Mines and Min...

Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa will skip the national executive meet of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) scheduled to be held in Mumbai on May 24 and 25. Earlier this week, Gujarat C...

Four children died overnight at the G B Pant Hospital in Srinagar, taking the death toll at Kashmir's only pediatric hospital to 363 this year.

The foreign ministry of Italy has summoned Debabrata Saha, the Indian ambassador to Rome, after a court in Kollam today rejected the bail application of the two Italian marines who are accused of kill...

In Vidarbha, rocked by farmer suicides, a new controversy is brewing. In one sweep, over the past year, the state government cleared a whopping 85 power projects across this region. For this they have...

Farmers in Singur, who unwillingly parted with their land for the Tata Nano car project and did not take compensation, would be given Rs 1000 a month, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announ...

Skygazers in parts of the world are up for a celestial treat on Monday (May 21) when an annular solar eclipse takes place- a rare event in which the sun will appear as a thin ring behind the moon. How...

16 people died and almost two dozen were seriously injured after a private bus collided with a stationary truck in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district late on Friday night.