Last Updated: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 14:24
Smoke from open-air burning of funeral pyres in India and Nepal is a significant source of production of carbon aerosols, a new study has claimed.
Last Updated: Thursday, October 17, 2013, 14:12
Enhanced growth of Earth`s leafy greens during the 20th century has significantly slowed the planet`s transition to being red-hot, according to a new study.
Last Updated: Thursday, October 10, 2013, 23:02
Scientists have found a way to improve yields of some crops by understanding their evolutionary process that made them significantly more productive than others over the years, a study said.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 18:08
The European Union is on track to meet its 2020 targets for reducing carbon emissions and switching to cleaner energy sources, its environmental watchdog said Wednesday.
Last Updated: Saturday, October 5, 2013, 20:27
A first-ever global deal on curbing the airline industry`s rising carbon emissions was agreed Friday, the International Civil Aviation Organization said, though hammering out the details could take years.
Last Updated: Friday, October 4, 2013, 19:41
Environment advocacy group World Wildlife Fund-India Friday invited nominations from small and medium enterprises for its Climate Solver Awards 2013.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 2, 2013, 13:13
In a bid to avoid a trade war in the wake of EU's move to impose carbon tax on all airlines using its airspace, International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is in the process of evolving an agreement on a global carbon-reduction programme to be effective from 2016.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 2, 2013, 10:57
British prosecutors say six men have been charged over a massive pollution credit fraud scheme that cost the British government many millions of pounds.
Last Updated: Friday, September 27, 2013, 12:02
The US is on the way to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and by 2020 it will reduce it by 17 percent from what it was in 2005, a government report said.
Last Updated: Thursday, September 26, 2013, 18:06
Scientists have developed a new method for turning waste plastic bags into a high-tech nanomaterial.
Last Updated: Thursday, September 26, 2013, 11:35
A team of researchers lead by Indian origin scientist has unveiled the first computer built entirely with carbon nanotubes.
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 13:16
A researcher has said that he has found proof suggesting that no ice sheet formed during the late Cretaceous Period when the climate was much warmer than today.
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