By Vishal Gulati Katowice (Poland), Dec 15 (IANS) The UN climate change conference was locked in a stalemate over a number of contentious issues relating to finance, loss and damage, and creation of a new…
Chennai, Dec 15 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami on Saturday said the state government will go for an appeal against the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order to reopen Vedanta Ltd’s copper smelter plant,…
Kolkata, Dec 15 (IANS) The Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) of Kolkata on Saturday issued a heavy rainfall warning for around 10 districts of West Bengal ahead of the approaching storm. “Yesterday’s (Friday) deep depression over…
New Delhi, Dec. Dec 15 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Saturday set the stage for the reopening of the Vedanta’s Thoothukudi-based copper smelting plant by setting aside the Tamil Nadu governments order to…
By Vineeth Menon and Shreejith Borthakur While cities cover only two per cent of the global land area, they contribute around 70 per cent of the global greenhouse emissions, one of the main drivers of…
Srinagar, Dec 15 (IANS) The cold wave has intensified in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday with the minimum temperatures dropping several notches below the freezing point, the weather office said. The minimum temperatures were likely…
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) People in the national capital woke up to a cold Saturday morning with shallow fog, with the minimum temperature recorded at 8.2 degrees Celsius, the season’s average, while the air…
Kolkata, Dec 14 (IANS) About 10.5 kgs of elephant tusk was recovered in Bengal and two persons were arrested, an official said on Friday. “Officers of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence recovered around 10.5 kgs of…
New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) The air quality in Delhi on Friday remained “poor” and it is expected to slip into “very poor” category on Saturday as the effect of rainfall would be over, the…
By Vishal Gulati Katowice (Poland), Dec 14 (IANS) As the COP24 climate summit draws to a close late Friday, negotiators are still grappling to agree on a significant commitment to strengthen the climate pledges of…
Bhubaneswar, Dec 14 (IANS) The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday said that a deep depression over the Bay of Bengal would trigger heavy rainfall in Odisha. It said light to moderate rain/ thundershowers are…
Chennai, Dec 14 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K.Palaniswami on Friday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to withdraw the Dam Safety Bill, 2018 introduced in the Lok Sabha as it impinges on the state’s rights…
Bengaluru, Dec 14 (IANS) Karnataka will seek a review of the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) December 6 order asking the state government to deposit Rs 500 crore in an escrow account for the revival of…
By Vishal Gulati Katowice (Poland), Dec 14 (IANS) Over 1,000 institutions with managed investments worth $8 trillion have committed to phasing out fossil fuels, says a report. The number of institutions committing to fossil fuel…
By Vishal Gulati Katowice (Poland), Dec 14 (IANS) Climate change and ocean change is already happening globally. This can no longer be denied. One degree of global warming has already occurred, Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland…
By Rajendra Shende “Since I last addressed the COP in 2009, Ive been deposed in a coup, thrown into jail, and forced into exile. But almost 10 years since I was last at these climate…
Srinagar, Dec 14 (IANS) Night temperatures dropped further on Friday in Jammu and Kashmir intensifying the cold wave sweeping the state. The minimum temperatures were likely to drop further during the next one week as…
By Vishal Gulati Katowice (Poland), Dec 14 (IANS) The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) on Thursday highlighted the outcome of its recent Virtual Summit and the Jumemej Declaration which calls on the ongoing UN climate summit…
New Delhi, Dec 13 (IANS) The government will levy a fee on ground water extraction from June next year to discourage misuse of water by industries and ensure a “more robust ground water regulatory mechanism”…
By Vishal Gulati Katowice (Poland), Dec 13 (IANS) The World Bank, Canada and Britain on Thursday announced financial, technical and advisory support for developing countries that have decided to transition from coal and accelerate the…