New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS) Businesses in India are adapting to water scarcity. Most sectors are feeling the heat of recent droughts, leading to increased costs of raw materials, says a survey of mega companies…
Vatican City, Sep 1 (IANS) Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople on Friday issued a joint statement urging immediate action against climate change and environmental destruction. The statement was issued on the occasion…
Sydney, Sep 1 (IANS) An increase of just 1-2 degrees Celsius in shallow waters on the West Antarctic Peninsula has radically reduced marine diversity, a new study revealed on Friday. Researchers from the British Antarctic…
Colombo, Sep 1 (IANS) The Sri Lankan government on Friday banned the use and manufacture of plastic shopping bags with immediate effect. Accordingly, the manufacture of food containers, plates, cups and spoons made from expanded…
Washington, Sep 1 (IANS) A powerful hurricane named Irma is rapidly intensifying in the open Atlantic and is posing a major threat to the Caribbean and the US, weather officials said. Irma was named as…
Washington, Sep 1 (IANS) US President Donald Trump will donate $1 million of his fortune to recovery efforts in Texas though the White House said he hasn’t determined which group or groups will receive the…
Colombo, Sep 1 (IANS) Sri Lankan authorities on Friday shut down one of the largest national parks in the island nation for two months due to a worsening drought. Wildlife Conservation Department spokesperson Hasini Sarathchandra…
Canberra, Sep 1 (IANS) The introduction of a foreign snake species in Guam’s forests about 60 years ago might have caused irreversible damage to the island’s ecosystem, an Australian researcher revealed on Friday. Lizzie Wandrag,…
Canberra, Sep 1 (IANS) After Australia experienced the driest winter since 2002, the nation is now bracing for dangerous bushfires, meteorological officials warned on Friday. The dry winter in 2002 culminated in a damaging bushfire…
New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS) It was an overcast Friday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 25.5 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season’s average. “It was a cloudy Friday…
Dehradun, Sep 1 (IANS) Heavy rains continued to batter most parts of the hill state of Uttarakhand on Friday, weather officials said. Rains lashed the state capital Dehradun on Thursday evening, leaving the city inundated….
New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS) Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar on Thursday directed the government-run Navodaya Vidyalayas to adopt solar energy and to ensure that future buildings be compliant with solar and water-harvesting….
Bengaluru, Aug 31 (IANS) Swedish-Swiss company Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) will install solar inverters at 750 railway stations across the northern region to reduce carbon footprint and energy bills, its Indian arm said on Thursday….
Bengaluru, Aug 31 (IANS) Swedish-Swiss company Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) will install solar invertors at 750 railway stations across the northern region to reduce carbon footprint and energy bills, its Indian arm said on Thursday….
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) The Delhi University (DU) election office on Thursday issued a stern warning to the student groups indulging in littering and vandalising of the premises, asking them to clean the campus…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) Widespread rain on Thursday brought much-needed respite from sultry weather to the capital’s residents as the maximum temperature dropped to 32.6 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season’s average. Delhi…
Abu Dhabi, Aug 31 (IANS/WAM) The police here on Thursday launched an awareness campaign to warn residents against risks of using fireworks. The campaign is part of Abu Dhabi Police’s “Your Security is Our Happiness”…
Washington, Aug 31 (IANS) Firefighters in the US state of Texas on Thursday began a block-by-block search for survivors in some of Houston’s most devastated areas while fires at a Crosby chemical plant and a…
New Delhi/ Male, Aug 31 (IANS) Health Ministers from South-East Asian countries will attend WHO’s 70th Regional Committee Session to discuss climate change and improving access to essential medicines for all, an official said on…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) A new study by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on Thursday said the misuse of antibiotics in poultry farms is leading to a multi-drug resistant bacteria that has…