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Trump, who doubts that climate change is primarily caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions, said in June that he would instead focus on promoting jobs in the US fossil fuel industry. (Photo: Representational/File)

Strong climate policies by India, China will offset less US action:...

The average world temperatures are still on track to rise far above the key goal set in the 2015 Paris Agreement.

15 Nov 2017 7:07 PM IST

NOAA climate scientist Ahira Sanchez-Lugo called it clear evidence of climate change.

Climate change pushing Earth toward risky 'tipping points': report

Scientists say that threshold is higher and climate change is here. It is dangerous and it is about to get much worse.

14 Nov 2017 3:03 PM IST

The exhaust pipes of a VW Diesel car are photographed in Frankfurt, Germany. The UN Climate Change Conference 2017 will take place under Presidency of the Government of Fiji in Bonn, Germany and starts on November 6, 2017. (Photo credit: AP)

Climate change: 5 things to know about Bonn climate summit

Climate change is back on the agenda with a global climate conference kicking off Monday in the German city of Bonn.

6 Nov 2017 9:09 AM IST

The new maps reveal that two to four times more oceanfront glaciers extend deeper than 200 metres below sea level than earlier maps showed. (Photo: Pixabay)

Greenland's ice at more risk than thought: Study

The new maps reveal that two to four times more oceanfront glaciers extend deeper than 200 metres below sea level than...

4 Nov 2017 5:22 PM IST

A car amid debris following an earthquake in Casamicciola on the Italian resort island of Ischia. An earthquake rattled the island at the peak of tourist season Monday night. (Photo: AP)

Bad' weather report: Scientists say earth's fever on steady rise

Scientists monitoring Earth's climate and environment have delivered a cascade of grim news in 2017.

3 Nov 2017 1:37 PM IST

The poor and elderly are most threatened by worsening climate change.

Global Warming is taking a toll on people's health: doctors

The report highlighted health problems stemming from more frequent heat waves, disease spread by insects, air pollution...

1 Nov 2017 11:37 AM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: Pexels)

Planet-warming methane from livestock underestimated: study

The concentration of methane in the air has climbed 10 times more quickly in the last decade.

29 Sept 2017 2:08 PM IST

The vegetable is so large that it needs to be taken around in a wheelbarrow, and Calder will soon be showing off the vegetable of his labour at the local farm fair. (Photo: Pixabay)

Retired Scottish lorry driver grows colossal 5-foot cabbage, 50 times...

72-year-old Bryan Calder grew the massive cabbage in his Forfar allotment saying it required no special treatment,...

12 Sept 2017 2:45 PM IST

The researchers modified an ordinary laboratory strain of the ubiquitous human gut microbe Escherichia coli. (Photo: Pixabay)

Black Death could return: Global warming releases lethal microbes from...

Peter Frankopan said melting of ice due to higher global temperatures could unleash biological agents trapped for...

23 Oct 2018 1:51 PM IST

In the United States, Brazil and China, at least two-thirds of the barley goes into six-packs, drafts, kegs, cans and bottles (Photo: AFP)

Scientists say beer may become costlier because of global warming

Barley is one of the most heat-sensitive crops globally, but this study connects that to something that people care...

15 Oct 2018 9:08 PM IST

The minimum temperature recorded on Wednesday was 23.4 degrees, at par with the normal average.

Rising heat affects all, world must act as one

Global warming and climate change have become a part of our lexicon during the past couple of decades.

15 Oct 2018 12:06 AM IST

Global warming. (Photo: Pixabay)

Heed climate warning

The point is whether the human race will find the collective political and moral will to fight climate change.

11 Oct 2018 12:43 AM IST