'US officials must grapple with the possibility that one of its closest partners attempted an extrajudicial killing on its soil.' 'This is not something that friends typically do to friends.'
Researchers at the University of Iceland are studying the possibility of sequestration of carbon dioxide in basalt, a common extrusive volcanic rock that makes up most of the world's oceanic crust.
The island nation faces a real threat of being inundated if the sea level rises by even one metre.
First Lady Jill Biden said after years of strengthening ties, the US-India partnership is deep and expansive as the two countries jointly tackle global challenges.
India supports "a fresh SAARC position on Climate Change for COP (Conference of Parties) 16 in accordance with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Chnage principles and the Bali Action Plan," External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said, addressing the SAARC Council of Ministers.
The marvellous boat is covered in 5,300 square feet of photovoltaic solar panels consisting of 38,000 next-generation cells by SunPower.
Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said "India's rhetoric was as strident as we ever heard China's, so we need to build a climate partnership with India, too; working from the same principles, but respecting the massive differences."
Media rights for the Indian cricket team is always a prized scalp and it was Viacom18 who bagged the deal on Thursday to broadcast India's home matches for the 2023-28 cycle.
A newly-developed scientific strategy may finally end the woes of farmers by averting the possibility of lower crop production or even crop failure and higher food prices in the event of delay in monsoon rains.
India's flagship motor show Auto Expo 2023 kicked off on Wednesday with the global unveiling of Suzuki Motor Corporation's concept electric SUV 'eVX' which is slated to hit the market by 2025. The company's Indian arm Maruti Suzuki India is among the major manufacturers participating in the show that has returned after three years. The Concept eVX is a mid-size electric SUV concept designed and developed by Suzuki Motor Corporation (SMC), Japan. It will be powered by a 60 kWh battery pack offering up to 550 km of driving range on single charge.
Greenpeace today came down heavily on leading refrigerator manufacturers, accusing them of failing to embrace environment-friendly technologies, thereby causing global warming and climate change.
Embattled UN climate panel chief R K Pachauri found support on Friday from world leaders attending the climate change conference in New Delhi as they contended that some mistake in the IPCC report does not change the basic facts of global warming.
As hopes for any deal on global warming dims at the Cancun meet later this year, United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres on Wednesday made it clear that the Kyoto Protocol will continue post 2012 as a second protocol since it does not have a 'sunset' clause.
Europe, led by Switzerland, leads the way as the U.S. falls.
A report released at the Copenhagen climate change conference ) has listed ten species likely to suffer huge losses due to global warming.This makes climate change an "additional and major threat."
Hitting hard at global warming sceptics, powerful United States lawmakers have accused them of 'engaging in a policy of distraction' by promoting hacked e-mails which claimed that scientists had exaggerated the crisis and asserted that the world is getting hotter faster.
"The year 2010 is the year of Tiger in China, which will put more pressure on poaching in China," said Jairam Ramesh.
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.
The Bachat Lamp Yojna moots a novel way of subsidising the sale of CFLs for lighting homesteads; each CFL, costing over Rs 100, will be sold by the Discoms at Rs 15. The remaining cost will be recovered from the sale of certified emission rights (or carbon credits), earned as a result of their use, under the clean development mechanism of the Kyoto protocol on climate change.
A national network project, run by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research since 2004, carried out to study the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture, is also throwing some light on the complex inter-relation between CO2, global warming and crop productivity.
Anticipating that severe flooding may become more frequent due to global warming, a WHO report said that independent studies in cyclone-affected Orissa and a flooded town in England has shown that post-traumatic stress disorder syndromes of different severity in affected people even after an year.
At this juncture, top-10-list.org has done a survey to seek the greenest cities of the world -- its main criterion of selection being the carbon dioxide emission level. The city with the least CO2 emission has been named the greenest city.
'We bonded over the fact that we are both from Delhi and he spent a lot of his childhood in the same neighbourhood as me.'
Meet Madhukar Vadu, who has written a book on the tribal art of Warli paintings, titled Unter Dim Regan Boga.
While United Nations climate chief Dr Rajendra Pachauri has rejected calls to step down in the wake of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change's withdrawal of an erroneous warning on Himalayan glaciers, the Indian climate official has admitted that there could be more errors in the Nobel prize winning report.Dr Pachauri said he was considering whether to take action against those responsible.
As global warming makes the weather more unpredictable, the water economy of urban India will have to be planned without depending on reservoirs getting routinely filled up by rain every year.
Ban Ki-moon said he is encouraged that more than 105 heads of state and government are committed to participate in the meeting of world leaders on the 18th of this month.
Major nations in the group are concerned over several drafts of a potential agreement that are floating around including the Danish proposal, which is yet to be fully disclosed.
Even if the leaders can't negotiate a binding agreement, many countries hope to work out commitments to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions and provide assistance to poorer countries likely to be hardest hit by the effects of global warming.
Ukraine's First Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova will pay a four-day visit to India from Sunday, the first official visit from the East European country since the Russian invasion began last year.
Global warming could cause the death of a quarter of a million children next year as a result of natural disasters causing an increase in injuries, water-borne diseases and starvation.
Pitching for transfer of clean technologies to enable the developing countries to adapt to climate change, Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal asked the developed nations to keep politics aside while addressing environmental issues. Addressing a seminar on climate change here, he said it was time to think about 'alternative and workable' solutions to address the issue of carbon emissions.
'We should credit Prime Minister Modi with having foresight and courage and showing leadership on climate change.'
According to a report in The Telegraph, Chewang Norphel, 76, has said that he "built" 12 new glaciers already and is racing to create five more before he dies.
The economy is likely to log in a tepid 6 per cent growth next fiscal, in line with the consensus estimates, rating agency Crisil said on Thursday. The agency also sees the economy averaging a growth rate of 6.8 per cent over the next five fiscals. Crisil further said it expects the corporate revenue to log in double-digit rise again next fiscal.
Biofuel revolution by developed countries will lead to food crisis for the world's poor, speed up global warming and lead to the loss of vital habitat worldwide, environmentalists have warned. Campaigners would urge the government to impose guarantees that the new technology reduces carbon emissions. Also, biofuel production was destroying vast areas of unspoilt habitat & has made at least one species extinct. WB & UN are concerned about biofuel's effect on world food prices.
This new technology primarily uses solar energy.
United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday warned time is running out to fight global warming but said the US was determined to act and that climate was the biggest issue in its ties with countries like India and China often blamed for the stalled talks.
Nordhaus, a professor at Yale University, is best known for his work on climate economics. Romer, of New York University's Stern School of Business, is a proponent of a theory that examines how the world can achieve sustainable growth.
A European Union ban on the traditional light bulb came into effect on Tuesday, despite strenuous opposition from a range of civil society groups. The ban is the EU's latest effort to combat global warming via energy saving.
