Even as some world leaders tamp down expectations for the December 7-18 UN climate conference, experts say the threat of a 4°C warming over pre-industrial times is all too plausible. Once that threshold is crossed, what might a four-degree world look like? Oceans have risen by at least 3.25 feet, drowning several island nations and .. more »

The jeans, marketed under the “Noko” brand, carry a price tag of $215 and will share shelf space at Stockholm’s PUB store with brands such as Guess and Levi’s. Noko’s founders said they had spent over a year trying to gain access to factory operators.. more »

From coffins made of recycled cardboard to saying no to embalming chemicals that seep into the soil, people are increasingly searching for ways to make their final resting place a more environmentally-friendly one. Now cremation, the choice today of a third of Americans and more than half of Canadians, is getting a green make-over. A standard .. more »

New Delhi: India will not accept a legally binding emission cut nor a peak year of carbon emissions at the global climate talks in Copenhagen, environment minister Jairam Ramesh said on Thursday. "There is no question of India accepting a legally binding emission reduction cut," he told Parliament, laying out India's negotiating .. more »

Singh told Obama when the President called him up this morning that India looked forward to a successful outcome in Copenhagen, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said today. Though Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have suggested that the Prime Minister should attend the Copenhagen summit, Singh is weighing his options and yet to .. more »

Ahead of the Copenhagen summit, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Tuesday that India would subject to voluntary emission cuts and not accept any legally binding emission cuts. International community has been building pressure on India after US President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced commitments to reduce .. more »

Ahead of the Copenhagen summit, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Tuesday that India would subject to voluntary emission cuts and not accept any legally binding emission cuts. International community has been building pressure on India after US President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced commitments to reduce .. more »

Four days ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit, India Thursday announced it would reduce its emission intensity by 20-25 percent by 2020 from the 2005 level. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, in an eloquent exposition of the country's stand, which he said was worked out in concert with some developing countries including China, said India .. more »

Sharing India's views, French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday said the upcoming Copenhagen meet on climate change should not miss the opportunity to tackle the problem as it would be a "historic failure" and asserted that New Delhi will not be a deal-breaker. Sarkozy, who held a luncheon meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan .. more »

New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram said in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that the security situation in the country had improved vastly after 26/11 as a result of which no single terror attack or incident of communal violence had occurred in the country in the last one year. The Home Minister reiterated the Government’s zero tolerance .. more »

New Delhi: India is as vulnerable to a terror attack today as it was a few months ago, because terrorist groups have forged alliances against the country, home minister P Chidambaram said today. "We are as vulnerable today, as we were a few months ago. Groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) are now coordinating their actions. One of these groups .. more »

Replying to a short duration discussion in the house on the internal security situation in the country, Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Wednesday that at least a dozen terror attacks were foiled in the last one year. He said that government's anti-terror campaign in the wake of the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai has been highly successful. .. more »

'There has been no terror attack in the last one year and two days. In fact, we have foiled a dozen terror attacks,' he said while replying to a short duration discussion in the Rajya Sabha on the internal security situation. 'Against Pakistan, we have built capacity but we remain vulnerable as our adversary has not changed his .. more »

"We are as vulnerable today, as we were a few months ago. Groups like LeT are now coordinating their action. One of these groups appears to have forged ties with Al-Qaeda [ Without naming Pakistan, Chidambaram said even while there has not been any terrorist attack in the last one year, the country cannot lower its guard because "our .. more »

“We are as vulnerable today, as we were a few months ago. Groups like LeT (Lashkar-e-Toiba) are now coordinating their action. One of these groups appears to have forged ties with al-Qaeda," he said in the Rajya Sabha. Chidambaram, without naming Pakistan, said even while there has not been any terrorist attack in the last .. more »