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Officials say the incident appears to be an act of sabotage rather than caused by an accidental leak. Indian government officials are urging calm following the revelation that employees of a maintenance unit of the Kaiga atomic plant were treated...

The country is the last major economy to offer a climate target four days before the start of UN talks on fighting global warming. In a speech to India's parliament, environment minister Ramesh Jairam said his country had not caused...

Obama shifts schedule, will attend end of climate change summit Washington (CNN) -- In a change of plans, President Obama will attend the end of an upcoming climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, the White House said Friday. "Based on...

But Connie Hedegaard, the Danish environment minister and conference chairwoman, said such commitments are crucial to persuading developing countries such as China and India to formalise their domestic commitments to curb emissions. Yvo de Boer, the UN’s top climate change...

The Danish Government says the world should cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 per cent by 2050 from 1990 levels, with most of the reduction coming from rich countries. It is a figure that the G8 grouping of industrialised nations...

Report Updated on Monday, November 30, 2009, 15:49 IST New Delhi: Forests covered 21.02 percent of India's area, the latest state of the forest report showed here Monday. This is a marginal increase from the last report released in 2005....

Delhi's Centre for Science and the Environment said that water found two miles from the factory contained pesticides at levels 40 times higher than the Indian safety standard. In a second study, the UK-based Bhopal Medical Appeal (BMA) found a...

India on Monday criticised a draft Danish proposal for the December 7-18 summit as a "dead end". The draft included a goal of halving world emissions by 2050 from 1990 levels. "The Danish government consults with various countries both bilaterally...