Aid of $10 billion from rich nations would be a "good beginning" to launch a U.N. climate treaty due to be agreed in Copenhagen in December, the United Nations' top climate official said on Thursday.
At least some of the weather extremes being seen around the world are consequences of human-induced climate change and can be expected to worsen in coming decades, a United Nations panel reported on Friday.
The Indian meteorological department is unable to explain why the recent heat wave is taking place in India. Hardly surprising for a government department
With the heat wave continuing to engulf the Northern region, residents of the Jalandhar city are facing an acute shortage of water and unannounced power cuts. Residents of almost all parts of the
Showers bring down temperature The prayers of the residents of the Jammu region were answered by the rain God, as the much-awaited rain last night brought some relief to them. The residents had been reeling under intense heat wave for the past few weeks.
The fragrant smell of mud filled the nostrils of the denizens early Monday morning, announcing the arrival of the south-west monsoon. The denizens, reeling under heat wave, were much relieved as heavy showers lashed the city for over one-and-half hours. And for once no one complained as the mercury plummeted by five degrees.
Major economies including the United States and China are considering setting a goal of halving world greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 when they hold a summit in Italy next month, a draft document showed.
The United States has been resisting European calls for industrialized nations to target an upper limit for global warming of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), according to a draft summit text.
India has suffered from many disasters in its recent history, both natural and climate-related, and these continue to cause devastation. In November 2015, floods in the southern city of Chennai, Tamil
India has suffered from many disasters in its recent history, both natural and climate-related, and these continue to cause devastation. In November 2015, floods in the southern city of Chennai, Tamil
Climate change could lead to a rise in average summer temperatures in parts of Britain that is nearly double the level which the European Union and others say is dangerous, a study said on Thursday.
Climate change has already caused "visible impacts" in the United States and poses particular risks to the U.S. agriculture and energy industries, a new government report said on Tuesday.
There is "scarcely an instrument of U.S. foreign policy" that was not vulnerable to climate change, which scientists say will raise sea levels by melting glaciers and ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica, Kerry, a Democrat, said at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting.
Japan should shun a "politically inexplicable" option of a rise in greenhouse gas emissions when it sets a 2020 target in coming days, the U.N.'s top climate change official said on Wednesday.
In this commentary the authors summarize the health risks of climate change in the United States and examine the extent of federal funding devoted to understanding, avoiding, preparing for, and responding to the human health risks of climate change.
SARAH BOSELEY Senior doctors in the U.K. recently published a report warning that climate change is the biggest threat to global health of the 21st century. Rising global temperatures would have a catastrophic effect on human health, the doctors said, and patterns of infection would change, with insect-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever spreading more easily. Heat waves
Searing heat continued to scorch the plains of north India as temperatures remained above 40 degrees Celsius. In Delhi, the maximum temperature Friday was 44.2
Heat wave sweeps North India; temperatures soar at several places Thunderstorms killed 16 people in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday even as heat and humidity continued to wear down people in North India where temperatures soared at several places while falling marginally in Delhi. In the national Capital, where the mercury on Tuesday shot up to the season's highest of 44.1 degree Celsius, the maxim
Bhubaneswar: As Orissa continued to boil in an abnormally hot summer, reports of sunstroke deaths rose to 53 on Monday. However, in the state government
April 22: The Met department has sounded a heatwave alert in the city and many parts of the state after temperatures reached 5
