On a scale of 0 to 10, India scores a poor 0.5 in preparedness for the effects of climate change that could include severe water scarcity, floods, drought and mass migration More...

Already, in any emergency, half of all those affected are children. A new report published by Save the Children UK says children will be hardest hit by increasingly frequent and severe natural disasters brought on by climate change More...

As the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issues its bleakest warning yet on the effects of global warming, China sends out mixed signals on the issue. While playing a key hand in undermining scientific confidence on the effects of global warming, China has reportedly agreed to be part of post-Kyoto climate talks More...

Two survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy and several other Indian activists are on the UNEP's list of nominees for the world's leading female environmentalists More...

A hundred countries have established national forest programmes and are seeing an increase in forest area, according to 'State of the World's Forests', a UN report that underlines the positive effects of economic prosperity and careful forest management More...

A proposal to breed tigers in captivity to harvest their body parts for use in traditional Chinese medicine has generated a lot of heat. Proponents say it will help curb poaching by ensuring that supply meets demand, but conservationists, understandably, are vehemently opposed to the idea

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At a recent meeting in the capital, state ministers for tribal affairs backed a plan to run special projects in 54 identified tribal pockets, aimed at improving the lives of tribal populations and ensuring that funds earmarked for tribals are not diverted More...

In the second instalment of a recent IPCC report, scheduled to be formally launched in April, scientists warn that given current rates of global warming, India could face rising temperatures, more heat waves, extreme precipitation, frequent drought and the disappearance of glaciers. A dismal scenario that the country must take more seriously, say experts More...

The way of life and the environment of the coastal state are under threat from unplanned 'development', specifically a Regional Plan that has allowed builders to run roughshod over villagers and flatten hills with impunity, empowered by the wilful collusion of politicians and local officials, writes Maria Aurora Couto

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