Beijing, March 11 (IANS) Eleven Siberian tigers have died of malnutrition at a zoo in China in the past three months, a wild life official said.
The tigers of the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in northeast China's Lianoning province died due to malnutrition rather than infectious diseases, said Liu Xiaoqiang,
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United Nations, March 11 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has announced an independent review of its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that faced flak due to some wrong predictions in a report on the impact of global warming.
A comprehensive and independent revision of the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Brussels, March 11 (DPA) The European Union is set to achieve its self-imposed target of deriving at least 20 per cent of its energy consumption from renewable sources by 2020, the bloc's executive said Thursday.
The target is part of the EU's so-called 20-20-20 strategy, which also foresees a 20 percent
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Bhubaneswar, March 11 (IANS) Scattered rainfall has brought relief to the people in several parts of Orissa Wednesday evening, the meteorological centre here said.
Rainfall occurred in the south coastal belt. Bhubaneswar and its adjoining Cuttack city also witnessed a brief spell of rain, an official said.
The maximum day temperature dropped
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Washington, March 9 (DPA) US greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.9 percent in 2008 amid a recession and record high petrol prices, according to a preliminary estimate Tuesday from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Lower demand for electricity and petrol helped drive down energy use over the course of the year
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New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) A case has been filed against a south Delhi five-star hotel for serving sea cucumber - a protected marine animal, a statement by the environment ministry said Tuesday.
Known commonly as blackfish, the highly protected species under the Schedule-1 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, was
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New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) In a bid to conserve energy, the capital's main civic agency Tuesday launched the country's first remote-controlled street lights that can be switched on and off using an internet-enabled main server located in the heart of the city.
The first phase of this street light upgradation
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New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) India has agreed to be listed in the introductory remarks of the Copenhagen Accord, Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh told parliament Tuesday.
Stating that India has agreed to such a listing after careful consideration, Ramesh said: 'Listing in chapeau of the accord implies that we
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Lucknow, March 9 (IANS) The temperature is likely to dip in Uttar Pradesh the next few days, with a cold wave making a comeback in the state, the weatherman said Tuesday.
The state experienced an unusually warm weather in recent days. Both the day and night temperatures were 4-5 degrees above
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New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Delhi woke up Tuesday to a nippy morning with a slight dip in the minimum temperature.
'The minimum temperature recorded early Tuesday was 14.5 degrees Celsius. The morning has been chilly because of a western disturbance over Afghanistan,' an official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD)
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