NEW DELHI: Director of the Hyderabad-based Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services , Shailesh Nayak on Wednesday assumed charge as the Secretary of the Ministry of Earth Sciences on Wednesday. A geologist by training, Dr. ...

Eight leading scientific organizations will release a document Wednesday calling for the next presidential administration and Congress to better protect the nation from the impacts of severe weather and climate change.

More than a quarter-century ago, a historian with an interest in American politics was at a dinner party at the California Institute of Technology and found himself seated next to a Soviet geophysicist and mathematician who studied earthquake prediction.

The National Intelligence Council (NIC) has completed a new classified assessment that explores how climate change could threaten U.S. security in the next 20 years by causing political instability, mass movements of refugees, terrorism, or conflicts over

Experts discuss how fossil fuels and biofuels will affect the world's economy and environment in the changing global energy market. Speakers will discuss climate change effects on agriculture, as well as effective means of measuring remaining fossil fuel