Asia chip makers powered by coal and gas imperil climate goalsThe Greenpeace report focused on companies based in East Asia, home to over a third of the semiconductor manufacturing industry’s market sh...
20 Apr, 2023, 09.34 AM IST
WHO raises bar for air quality, says health impacted even at lower levels of pollutionThe thresholds have been revised as it is found that air pollution inflicts damage on human health at even lower concentrations than previo...
23 Sep, 2021, 06.40 AM IST
7 of the top 10 most polluted cities in the world are in IndiaAir pollution is likely to cause the death of an estimated seven million lives globally in the next year.
06 Mar, 2019, 05.01 PM IST
7 of the top 10 most polluted cities in the world are in India: StudyGurugram, located southwest of India's capital New Delhi, led all cities in pollution levels in 2018, even as its score improved from the p...
05 Mar, 2019, 12.35 PM IST
At 2 degree Celsius warming, Kolkata could see deadly heatwaves: IPCC reportThe IPCC has come out with a special report on global warming that said limiting it to 1.5 degrees Celsius will require rapid, far-reaching...
09 Oct, 2018, 12.58 PM IST
Global climate goals within 'feasible' reach: SurveyIt however said that while "more progress" is needed and the margin for error is tight, results of the past year provide "good reason for o...
22 Mar, 2017, 05.37 PM IST
- Indian government failed to address attacks on minorities: Human rights groups
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International also slammed the government for blocking foreign funding and targeting non-governmental organi...
27 Jan, 2016, 10.32 PM IST
Green bodies welcome India's INDC on climate actionReacting to the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions announced by India, green bodies said that it was a much-awaited climate actio...
02 Oct, 2015, 05.59 PM IST
Rahul Gandhi backs Greenpeace, other civil society activistsRahul met members of civil society including Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai, who had a running feud with NDA dispensation and expressed s...
04 Jun, 2015, 10.11 PM IST
Maoists getting support from European organisations, home ministry saysThe ministry said it has information that senior cadres of the Communist Party of Philippines imparted training to the cadres of CPI (Maois...
15 Jul, 2014, 03.01 PM IST
- Green groups walkout of UN Climate Change conference
Green NGOs staged a walkout from the UN Climate Change conference accusing the developed nations of "wasting precious time to save the worl...
21 Nov, 2013, 10.49 PM IST
- 'We need to become as global as the problems we tackle'
As an NGO known for its aggressive, eye-catching protests on environmental issues across the world, Greenpeace is rediscovering what it mea...
26 Nov, 2010, 12.54 AM IST
- Genetically modified crops get mixed response in Asia
With food prices hitting record highs the jury is still out in Asia as to whether genetically modified crops hold the key to future food se...
11 May, 2008, 09.44 AM IST
- 'Gateway of India will be under water by 2100'
The Gateway of India will be wiped off the Mumbai skyline. Bhelpuri at Chowpatty will become the stuff of grandmother's tales.
31 Mar, 2008, 09.45 AM IST
'Gateway of India will be under water by 2100'Ninety-two years from now, Gateway of India will be wiped off the Mumbai skyline. Rise in sea level would also affect actor Shah Rukh Khan'...
31 Mar, 2008, 12.41 AM IST
- 'Warming will trigger huge exodus'
A rise in sea level due to global warming is expected to affect more than 43 lakh Indians living in the coastal cities of Chennai, Mumbai a...
27 Mar, 2008, 03.02 AM IST
- Security tight as APEC meeting begins
Police tightened security on Sunday as senior officials from Pacific Rim nations began meetings to prepare for a summit of regional leaders...
02 Sep, 2007, 03.38 PM IST