A recent disaster in Nepal highlights growing instability in the warming Himalayas. Massive rock and ice collapses unleash destructive floo...

An official from the United Nations has sounded the alarm regarding the alarming prospect of severe glacial floods in the Himalayas. These ...

India is enhancing efforts to establish early warning systems for 188 critical lakes. These lakes in the Indian Himalayan Region are vulner...

Nepal faces a critical threat from its glacial lakes. Experts have identified 42 lakes at high risk of bursting. Such an event could lead t...

India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar expressed sorrow over the passing of Lorin S Robert, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Microne...

With COP30 just a week away, dozens of countries still lack accommodation in Belem, where hotel rates have soared. Brazil is now offering f...

The Bihar State Pollution Control Board reports alarming CO2 levels in Patna, exceeding global averages, with some areas recording up to 95...

In a new report, the UNDP estimated that 54 countries, accounting for more than half of the world’s poorest people, now needed immediate de...

Chipping away at persistent blights to development places India in the middle of a list of nations in its immediate neighbourhood. However,...

The index factors in exposure of population, agriculture and livestock and environmental risk in drawing up the rankings.

The decision to the effect came after the meeting of the Core Committee of Nagaland Tribal Hohos and Civil Organisations (CCNTHCO) with var...

"Mountains have not received due recognition in global and national development agenda," David Molden said.

The government has taken exception to the 'biases' in the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Asia Pacific Human Development repo...

An estimated 15% of the Sunderbans delta will go under the sea by 2020, the UN Development Programme has warned.

Siachen Glacier in Ladakh has receded by about 800 m in the last 20 years and is facing threat of climate change caused by military activit...

A jubilant Kosovo prepares to declare independence Sunday but it will face an uphill task to be economically viable after the celebrations ...

Warning that growing inequalities within and between the nations at a time of widespread economic growth could be dangerous, a top United N...