Former US vice president and Nobel Peace prize winner Al Gore compares the importance of the heart in the human body to that of the Earth in the ecosystem. Shobha Warrier listens in
Al Gore committed a blunder at the Copenhagen climate change summit by claiming that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years.
Al Gore has reportedly resorted to poetry, as his editor did not allow him to publish a chapter in the book about the ramifications of uncontrolled global warming.
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Al Gore warns that black carbon from India's use of biomass fuels that contribute to global warming can adversely impact India's great rivers, the life-blood of the country's agriculture.
Former US vice president and Nobel laureate Al Gore has been cleared of accusations that he sexually assaulted a massage therapist in a luxury Portland hotel room in 2006.
With three days left to seal a deal at Copenhagen, climate change champion Al Gore has called on developed and developing countries to reach "compromises" on their key differences for the sake of future generations.
Former US Vice President Al Gore could become the world's first carbon billionaire following his investments in green energy companies after anticipating the need to reinvent the way the world produces and consumes energy. Gore's venture capital company has been investing to develop energy-saving technologies, which could make electricity grids more efficient.
Gore, who was US President Bill Clinton's deputy in 2000, made the 2006 Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, after which he was seen as a champion of environmental issues and climate change.
IPCC, headed by Dr Pachauri, has a team of dedicated scientists from various countries who have won the prize for their pioneering work in the field of environment.
Nobel Laureate Al Gore has warned that black carbon emissions from the kerosene powered lamps and stoves of the subcontinent will adversely impact the great rivers that are the lifeblood of India's agrarian economy.
Gore was among the 2007 American Nobel Prize winners who were invited for a photo session with the president.
Former US Vice President Al Gore has hit back at his critics who have described him as the world's first carbon billionaire following his investments in green energy companies, and dismissed them as global-warming deniers.
Gore, who lost the 2000 presidential election to Bush, has since transformed himself into an avid environment campaigner, even winning an Oscar for his documentary "An inconvenient truth", a film about global warming.
Though he is a member of Students Against Violating the Environment for several years, Abhishek got really excited about global environmental problems only after getting to know the book and the film An Inconvenient Truth.
Climate Challenge India, a climate change mobilisation effort by Bangalore-based NGO Center for Social Markets has produced a film titled In Good Company: Corporate India and the Climate Challenge that partly tries to answer the question but also raises some red flags on the issue. The film was launched in May at the World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen. As CSM's founder and climate change campaigner Malini Mehra explains that the film was a labour of love.
Relieved at the safe return of two female American journalists who were arrested in North Korea some five months ago, US President Barack Obama today thanked the former First Citizen Bill Clinton for his "extraordinary humanitarian" effort in this regard.
In a dramatic move that has far-reaching implications, North Korea has sentenced two American women journalists 12 years of hard labour.
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In addition to supporting the president-elect, Klain will work to build a diverse, experienced and talented team to help President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris meet the urgent challenges facing the country, a media release said.
'Producing that set of reports was the work of hundreds of scientist, all of whom deserve honour -- and all of whom were honoured with the award of the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10,' said Nature. 'But a particular burden fell on the chair, and in that capacity Pachauri worked ceaselessly, and sometimes sleeplessly, to create compromise where necessary while refusing to dilute the key messages from the academic community he serves,' the magazine said.
Domestic wind power firm Suzlon Energy chief Tulsi Tanti, along with Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology's D P Dobhal, have made to a list of global environment champions prepared by the Time magazine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been chosen by the Time magazine as its 'Person of the Year' for his "extraordinary feat of leadership in taking a country that was in chaos and bringing it stability".
Asked about his initial reactions on the IPCC winning the Nobel Prize, Dr Pachauri said he was "deeply humbled by the honour that has been bestowed on me by the Nobel Committee. In any case, this is an honour that goes to all the scientists and authors who have contributed to the IPCC's work."
'Once a government has approved a report then they necessarily have to accept ownership of it.' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Chairman Dr R K Pachauri in an extensive interview.
A Kerala company involved in tackling the problem of dumped food waste and a Karnataka firm that has provided thousands of rural families dung-based biogas plants are among 10 global projects shortlisted for the Ashden Awards
Wesley Clark said his war-tested military record makes him the ideal Democrat to ensure the nation's security in a post-September 11 world.
Secretly taped conversations with Bush before he became president indicate that he used marijuana, but would not discuss it further.
Did Jeff Bezos decide against endorsing Harris because it would hurt his business interests? Only God and Bezos know, and neither of them are talking, notes Prem Panicker.
Donald Trump may have secured an upset win over Hillary Clinton in the US presidential race but she could still emerge as the candidate who received more popular votes, media reports said.
Pachauri was admitted to Escorts Heart Institute in the national capital where he underwent open heart surgery and was put on life support on Tuesday, sources said.
The World Bank must become Archimedes's lever to help change the world into a more prosperous, inclusive, and sustainable planet in the 21st century. The change in leadership now provides that opportunity, observes Ajay Chhibber.
A day after quitting as Chairman of UN's prestigious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, TERI Director General R K Pachauri has been admitted to a city-based hospital.
Across the world rallies were held to draw attention to climate change ahead of a United Nations summit in New York.
The November 3 presidential poll is an "election of a lifetime" for it being held amid a pandemic and seeing the "highest participation" of India-Americans, according to eminent community leader Swadesh Chatterjee.
We're aware of the allegations, said the spokesperson of UN's Ban Ki-Moon.
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