U.S. and European researchers have discovered a greenhouse gas with frightful characteristics--it is 18,000 to 22,200 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, and it has an atmospheric life estimated

Despite their failure to set a unified deadline for the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions, environment ministers of the Group of Eight who met in Otsu at the weekend

WAPDA has prepared an ambitious master plan for Sehwan Barrage Complex and two gigantic development projects for "Riverine area" and "Rainy/Thar Canals" which includes remodelling of Guddu Barrage at

Delegates from 40 countries from the Asia-Pacific region on Sunday began discussing mutual cooperation and strategies to improve the environment at a one-day conference held in Kitakyushu,

As the temperature rises in the Arctic, it sends a chill around the planet. Back from a cruise to the North Pole aboard the Russian icebreaker Yamal, tourists told the New York Times that a 1.5-km

National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Ltd has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Sikkim government to set up Rs 2,198 crore Teesta Stage-5 hydropower project in the Himalayan

Govt all gas about converting: Four months after March 31 - the day the apex court ordered the government to phase out all pre and post-1990 commercial diesel vehicles by converting them to a cleaner

Increasing quantities of a rare greenhouse gas have been found, which is 18,000 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide, and comes from an unknown origin. Concentrations of the gas,

The United States is proposing that countries should get as much credit for their carbon dioxide sinks as they would for cutting industrial and domestic emissions. In preparation for the next

Tropical oceans are warming by as much as 0.05 degrees Celsius per year. The warming is particularly severe in the northern hemisphere, causing significant damage to the coral reefs which are