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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...

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...

With icy winds blowing on a sunny morning, 24 of Nepal’s 27 ministers — in layers of protective clothing, and armed with oxygen tanks — held a historic meeting at Kala Patthar, 17,192 ft above sea level...Everest base camp is...

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...

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....

Up to 20 million Bangladeshis may be forced to leave the country in the next 40 years because of climate change , one of the country's most senior politicians has said. Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, Bangladesh 's finance minister, called...

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...

Gilgit-Baltistan on Sunday morning, but no loss of property or life was reported from anywhere in the country, Metrological Department said. The tremor struck at 9:33 am on Sunday and recorded 5.6 on the Richter Scale. The jolts were felt...

Disaster-prone Bangladesh will need $10 billion from big polluting nations to help it adapt to powerful storms, floods and rising seas, chief of the parliamentary standing committee on environment and forests said. Bangladesh, one of the world's most densely populated...