Environment

Oopsie! $1 Billion in UN Funds to Fight Climate Change Built Coal Power Plants Instead

About $1 billion in Japanese funding that Japan claimed was part of a UN initiative to help developing countries take action against climate change went, unnoticed, towards Ja...

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Lima climate conference has to ‘write history’ to save earth, says Figueres

Over the course of the next two weeks, delegates will attempt to hammer out the new universal treaty, which would enter force by 2020 More than 190 nations are participating i...

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Oil's fading clout will aid climate change fight in Lima: Don Pittis

It is amazing what a difference a year makes. Or in the case of oil, a few months. And in this case it may be that the decline in the status of oil ? from something akin to th...

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Lima climate change talks best chance for a generation, say upbeat diplomats

Hopes rise for global warming deal after US-China carbon commitments inject much-needed momentum into Peru talks UN climate negotiations opening in Lima on Monday have the bes...

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Women on climate change frontline make big impact on small grants

In London, Paris and Washington, where leaders have made little progress in curtailing climate change, global warming may seem a merely theoretical problem ? too far in the fu...

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Climate change: India to pay dearly, says Royal Society

Warning that floods like the ones which ravaged Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Odisha are imminent between now and 2090, a report of The Royal Society, London, has suggested effecti...

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India must be active in Lima climate change talks: Experts

India must get actively get involved in the climate change talks to be held in Peru next month, expressing how much it wants as its share in the "carbon budget", or the countr...

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Reflecting sunlight into space has terrifying consequences, say scientists

But ?geoengineers? say urgent nature of climate change means research must continue into controversial technology to combat rising temperatures Fighting global warming by refl...

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Air pollution costs Britain ?10bn a year, report shows

Britain is third highest contributor to air pollution that costs Europe up to ?149bn a year, says EU agency report Britain has 10 of Europe?s top 50 ?super-polluting? power st...

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Six vital steps world leaders must agree to take to protect Earth

International talks in Paris in 2015 could see the world?s nations agree to limit global warming to a rise of 2C. Actually achieving that target will require huge commitments ...

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KALEIDOSCOPE: LUCKNOW BETWEEN PAST AND NOW

Cultures are never frozen in time, they keep moving, keep evolving.Filmmaker and writer ...

January 19 2026

HEALTH: WHEN CANCER GETS PERSONAL

As cancer treatment continues to rely on averages and probabilities, a breakthrough appr...

January 18 2026

GENDER: CHAI AND LOVE MEET ON STAGE

In this intimate column, Vinta Nanda writes about The Chai Queens, its emotional homecom...

January 17 2026