EBay is pushing environmental friendliness thanks to poor sales. The online auction site is hoping that it can make a bit more bank if it positions itself as a 'green' shopping option. On its newly launched offshoot, "green.ebay.com, eBay makes the case that buying something used is as envir...

MUMBAI: Abhishek Bachchan certainly believes in extending his beliefs across his endorsement deals. Taking forward the ideology behind his cellular company Idea to the next level, AB junior is now going to be the brand ambassador of WWF's Earth Hour.

The actor flew into Del...

PARIS — Israel, widely believed to have nuclear weapons and possessing no oil, said on Tuesday that it intended to develop civilian nuclear plants for energy, offering to build one as a joint project with Jordan, under French supervision.

The Israeli infrastructu...

The largest ever wildlife trade convention (known as CITES Cop15) runs from 13-25 March. It's a unique chance for world governments to protect species in our oceans, as well as halting a worldwide poaching crisis.

At the upcoming meeting of the Convention on Internatio...

If reports are to be believed, the US still holds the dubious distinction of being the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

According to a report in New Scientist, the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California, reports that in 2004, 23 p...

On February 16, while President...

 Strasbourg - The European Union's top climate negotiator said Tuesday she wants the bloc to pursue deeper emission cuts, despite the fact that its current pledge of 20 per cent reductions by 2020 did not elicit comparable responses from the United States or China. After the failure of globa...

The Environmental Protection Agency chief fought back on Monday against Senate attempts to challenge the agency's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, saying delaying action would be bad for the economy.

 WASHINGTON — China and India formally agreed to join the international climate change agreement reached last December in Copenhagen, the last two major economies to sign up.

African American voters want Congress to enact legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, even if it means higher energy bills, a just-released survey by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies has found.

The Washington-based think tank, which tracks voting...

Arrow Energy of Australia said Monday that it had received a takeover offer worth about $3 billion from a company owned by Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina, the government-run gas and oil giant.

Arrow, which produces natural gas from coal beds, called the offer of 3.3 ...

INDIA has lauded the lack of carbon cuts in the non-binding Copenhagen Accord, boosting claims by rich countries that developing nations derailed the deal.

On his return from Copenhagen, the Indian Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh, told Parliament his mandate had been to...

No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and mastermind of its latest report in 2007.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said India stood committed to ensure that its per capita carbon emissions would never exceed the average levels of developed countries and would adopt purpose domestic actions to enhance its climate change management.

He also said that cl...