Special Correspondent: New Delhi, Nov. 19: The developed countries appear to be failing to keep their promise made last year to provide fast-track finance to help the world’s poor countries adapt to the impacts of climate change, a UK-based non-government research organisation said on Thursday. The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) said “the

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Former US Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore has been spreading the message of climate change, but his own country the United States, which is the world’s second largest polluter, has failed to pass a law to fight global warming. He spoke to Chetan Chauhan on wide range of issues including the

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Science News: Modern explorers have pushed into nearly every nook and cranny of the globe, from polar Antarctica to the depths of the Amazonian jungle. Yet there’s land still to explore, and regularly comes news of unexpected and wondrous findings — a mongooselike carnivore spotted in Madagascar, a massive waterfall discovered in Peru. Such is

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HONG KONG -China said countries have a “common duty” to tackle global warming, pointing to a rift between rich and developing nations on climate change policy. Governments of industrialized and developing countries — including the world’s biggest polluters China and the US — have been battling over who should carry the burden for curbing the

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China said on Friday it will not agree to any deal tying climate change aid from rich nations to its acceptance of tighter international checks of its greenhouse gas emissions, which it said will grow for some time. Huang Huikang, the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s special representative for climate change talks, laid bare rifts between Beijing

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“The impact of climate change on some Himalayan glaciers is much worse than previously thought.” Tian Lide, a glaciologist with the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP) And you thought the world was bipolar. Turns out it is tripolar. After the North and South Poles, there is one more that researchers

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A new directive of the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MEF) report has categorised Northeastern States and three other regions – Himalayan, Coastal and Western Ghats of the country as vulnerable regions to climate change. It termed the region as “vulnerable to water-induced disasters because of its location in the eastern Himalayan periphery, fragile geo-environmental

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