Speakers at a meeting of national coordination body of the Mangroves for Future (MFF) programme on Thursday called for protection and conservation of mangrove forests which, they said, played a vit

"Climate change is projected to reduce timely sown irrigated wheat production by about 6% in 2020. In case of late sown wheat, the projected levels are to the extent of 18%," Pawar said in the Rajya Sabha.

Climate change is likely to bring down the production of key foodgrain crops like wheat and rice in the country by up to 18% in 2020, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said today.

After a few days of respite, hot weather conditions returned to the industrial city on Thursday. For the second time in this summer, the mercury touched 40-degree celsius mark on Thursday. The maximum temperature was approximately four degrees above normal, while the minimum temperature was recorded at 20.6 degrees, which was 2 degrees below normal. The humidity level was at 54%.

India's disaster relief agency suffers from "critical gaps" in its preparedness for calamities, making it largely ineffective when responding to the numerous disasters the country faces such as flo

The parliamentary panel says govt has failed to understand the urgency of timely infusion of capital in the system

Indiscriminate felling of trees, poaching and unplanned development were creating problems for Nagaland, which was the face of climate change in the State, Environment and Wildlife Minister Y Patto

Bangladesh can slash greenhouse gas emissions by around 22 per cent by 2020 through introducing a variety of clean technologies that would cost less than $10 per tonne of carbon-dioxide equivalent,

Anthropogenic US greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) amounted to a CO2-equivalent 6,702.3 million metric tons in 2011, down 1.6 percent from 2010 and 6.9 percent below 2005 levels.