My daughter mentioned to me at the weekend that for the first time since her school closed in March, the lead story on the BBC News website had nothing to do with Covid-19. The focus on the coronaviru...

India is one of the few countries whose actions are compliant with the Paris Agreement goal of keeping rise in temperature to below two degree Celsius, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday.Addr...

Official analyses of the environment in the Indian context are in the habit of missing the wood for the trees. While releasing the India State of Forest Report 2019, the Union minister, Prakash Javade...

In his book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum states that humanity is at the cusp of a revolution that is characterized by a range of new technologies, which ...

Madrid has passed the buck to Glasgow. The climate conference in the Spanish city, which apparently witnessed the longest stretch of deliberations among squabbling nations, has yielded very little in ...

Climate talks on key aspects remain inconclusive at CoP 25 in Madrid even as the UN summit draws to a close on Friday. Around 200 countries are participating in the summit, which climate activists fee...

The United States has begun the process of pulling out of the landmark 2015 Paris climate agreement.Secretary of state Mike Pompeo said on Monday that he submitted a formal notice to the United Nation...

World Environment Day was first celebrated in 1973. Every year, the significance of such a day becomes more and more important. Why? Because we, as a community are in denial of the serious repercussio...

Apathy towards the environment is not a recent phenomenon. Every year, countries huddle together under the banner of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change-Conference of the Parties...

India, Brazil, China and South Africa signalled on Thursday that they would be flexible on key climate issues but not at the expense of “backsliding” on the 2015 Paris Agreement that seeks climate...