Go green now: RK Pachauri - The Times of India

COIMBATORE: Nobel laureate Rajendra K Pachauri on Wednesday said that the cotton city needs to be "greened more than any other parts of the world". If greenery initiatives are not taken up, the Coimbatore region could become a desert soon, he cautioned.

The Nobel laureate was in the city on Friday to address a gathering of green activists at the CODISSIA Trade Fair Complex. He also planted a sapling which was called a Nobel tree'.

Carbon Tax Row

Professor Ross Garnaut pointed out an interesting inverse relationship this week. Over the past three years the science of global warming has become more clear and more alarming, but in that same period, fewer Australians believed it was true.

GOP Expects Dems to Back Bill Killing ‘Backdoor Cap and Trade’

REPUBLICANS EXPECT conservative Democrats to back legislation introduced into the House and the Senate that will permanently bar the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating so-called greenhouse gases.