The generation of hydropower from the top seven hydropower projects in India has suffered due to climate variability in the past six decades

Youth will suffer the fury of climate change. The time to change that is now— for today and for the future

Marine heawaves have already become longer-lasting and more frequent, extensive and intense and this trend is likely to accelerate under further global warming, says a new study

Melting of Arctic ice might be altering the paths of certain high speed winds in the region called jet streams, also associated with tornadoes in the summer season in the US

Scientists say that by 2050, the capital of Indonesia will be entirely submerged

Global warming does not cause wildfires. Rather, global warming exacerbates the conditions and raises the risk of wildfire

In 2017, carbon dioxide concentration at Earth’s surface was 405 ppm—greater than the 2016 level

Now that the rich are also being hit by climate change & the “attribution” is clear, the targets for the world’s anger will be emerging rich in emerging countries like India

GCF, the primary vehicle for Paris pact finances, struggles as developed countries don’t seem too keen on donating

By 2080, deaths from heat waves could increase by up to 2,000 percent in some areas of the world, say Australian researchers

Unusual heat wave, floods, wildfire, extreme rain and drought hit everyone worldwide

Monsoon ditched them so bad that they stare at lowest rain deficit in 13 years

Women in developing countries are more vulnerable to floods and storms owing to their socially constructed roles

The Ladakhi engineer, environmentalist and innovator has been awarded ‘Asia’s Nobel’ for ‘harnessing nature, culture and education for community progress’

Climate change could be linked to a total of 14,020 excess suicides in the US and 7,460 excess suicides in Mexico by 2050, says a new study

Climate change at the global and local levels is reducing water flow in the Mahanadi river, severely impacting agriculture. Tackling that together is far more important than fighting over the sharing of its waters

River Kosi has been changing its course whimsically, damaging everything in its way, but villagers in North Bihar are rebuilding their lives by reusing the silt which damaged their land

In the past 10 years, extreme weather events cost developing countries over $62 billion in higher external interest payments

It says 6,500 km of fibre-optic cables are under threat of being submerged by water by 2033

“गोबर टाइम्स” हमारे नन्हे पाठकों के लिए पर्यावरण पर आधारित पत्रिका है जो डाउन टू अर्थ के अंग्रेजी संस्करण के साथ उपलब्ध है। 

K S Gopi Sundar, a well-known expert on cranes, recently conducted a study on how climate change and cropping patterns affect the nesting cycles of the Sarus Crane 

2018 में भारत के 16 राज्यों में 50 धूलभरी आंधी की घटनाएं हुई हैं, जिसके कारण 500 से अधिक मौतें हुईं। जानमाल को बड़ा नुकसान पहुंचाने वाली इस घटना पर दस सवाल...…

It also recorded a deficit of 9% between June 28 and July 4. What explains the anomaly?

The Church plans to withdraw investment from companies that don’t follow the terms of the Paris Agreement

भारत में पर्यावरण पर चल रही बहस को अमीरों और गरीबों के चश्मे से देखने की जरूरत है

The pace of loss of forests has slowed in recent years even though the world’s forest area decreased from 31% to 30% between 1990 and 2015

Discussions on funding proposals could not happen due to process-related disagreements among Board members

Two recent developments could precipitate a global debate on whether poverty triggers extremism

Howard Bamsey resigned abruptly after a 'disappointing' meeting on expansion of GCF-funded projects

Be it Europe, Asia or the Middle East, all are setting heat milestones

One Tiger Reserve and three wildlife sanctuaries will become unsuitable for the wild mountain ungulate in the future due to climate change

This is the expectation of the National Building Code, which defines standards for ‘comfortable’ temperatures for buildings in India

To bring scientists working in both the poles together, the International Polar Year was observed during 2007-2008 and it was decided to have such an event once in every ten years

Temperature and population density could facilitate transmission and thus increase in antibiotic resistance, say scientists 

While more than a century-old data projects a warmer world, India still needs a proper regional data on climate vulnerability

Most affected states will be Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh

Even if global warming is limited to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels this century, rapid polar warming may release additional greenhouse gases, and sea-levels will rise by several metres

Heat waves are likely to increase by up to 30 times by 2100; the government needs to focus on the most vulnerable population, including the poor, women, children, elderly and disabled

IIT-Delhi researchers have developed models which are being used by many Indian Ocean rim countries, besides Indian Meteorological Department, for operational purpose

Weak legislation, corruption, lack of data are compunding environmental problems in a country which has over 10% of its area covered by national parks

What is a comfortable temperature? The question seems benign at surface but the answer has far reaching ecological consequences

4 people die as the southwest monsoon brings torrential rain to the city

Communities in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda are facing fresh bouts of flooding besides facing hardships due to earlier bouts

Rising sea temperatures will reduce the availability of prey for the predator seabird and their population growth rate will decline by 5.3%

New research reveals number of cities and citizens threatened by direct and indirect climate hazards if global greenhouse gas emissions continue unchecked

Climate change is making sea levels rise, which is putting 2.5 million properties along the coast at a risk of chronic flooding

Almost half the world’s population and 20% of its economy depend on Himalayan rivers. China and India’s competition for their headwaters increases this threat

Belgium, Denmark, Germany and the UK are no longer at the forefront of the fight against climate change

Nipah virus is part of a clutch of emerging pandemics threatening the world due to global warming and environmental pressure

It’s time researchers and policy makers think about managing the water when even the more resilient of the two poles has given in to climate change

The fact is that storms of 2018 hold a mirror to our future

A confluence of global, regional and local variables is leading to the development of massive storms

They suspect climate change to be the cause of the death of baobab trees that live for thousands of years

The magnitude of floods is likely to increase by 25 per cent in Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, parts of Meghalaya and Nagaland

This is important since oilseed crop requires cold days and the number of cold days required for full plant cycle has shrunk owing to climate change

Researchers took Gehyra variegate, a gecko, as the sample species and found that it does not shy away from heat and can maintain its population during drougt

By 2018 end, the Paris Agreement rule book has to be finalised. But efforts to finalise these set of rules at Bonn was marred by tardy pace and no concrete text

The country has not followed the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures

मई के आखिरी हफ्ते में उत्तर भारत लगातार लू यानी हीटवेव की चपेट में रहा और इससे अब भी राहत मिलती नजर नहीं आ रही है। 

An unprecedented storm season challenges India's scientific community

Crop losses, caused by extreme weather events, steered small-scale farmers towards new farming techniques

Since Sub-Saharan Africa is largely off grid, it has great opportunity to skip installing fossil fuel-based power generation infrastructure and jump to renewables

A UN-backed mechanism to curb carbon sequestration and ensure biodiversity conservation, REDD+, is compromising community rights. Is there a better way?

Almost 70 per cent of the funds committed by developed countries to finance climate action in Africa are tied to conditional loans and credit lines

These ‘climate victims’, who live near the coast or in the mountains, are witnesses to melting glaciers and affected by permafrost melting

Lominda Afedraru visits farmers in various parts of Uganda and assesses how the government is mitigating climate change impacts

Political will is needed to address marine pollution and climate change in Africa

Fisherfolk blame big trawlers but they do not talk about the illegal trade they indulge in

Africa has only 1,152 weather stations; most of which are in dilapidated condition. Adequate infrastructure and quality data is needed to help provide seasonal forecasts 

आर्थिक हित व एजेंसी की प्राथमिकताएं यह तय करती हैं कि देश उपग्रह के आंकड़ों का इस्तेमाल किस तरह करें। 

With extreme weather events becoming the new normal, forecasting has become more important than ever. It's time African nations invest in observation networks 

Rising temperatures coupled with misuse and overuse of water resources has had a catastrophic impact on the nation

Large-scale changes in rainfall can happen based on how tropical forests respond to excess CO2 in the atmosphere

While 43 African countries plan to raise 20 per cent of adaptation funds, the remaining needs to be funded by the international community, which has in the past defaulted on aid commitments

While droughts and floods have wreaked havoc on the sector, change in farming practices can bring about a better tomorrow

More than 2,000 natural disasters have hit Africa since 1970 affecting 500 million people and killing 0.9 million

Grace Manda from Malawi never thought a climate-resilient method of farming could help her build a fixed roof, send her kids to school, that too from cultivating a hectare of unfertile land

Unlikely since nobody knows where and how it has spent environmental cessess, such as the coal cess, meant to mitigate climate change 

Africa is the only continent that imports more food than it produces. Down To Earth brings ground report from 10 African countries to assess steps taken to become self-sufficient in food

भारत में हीटवेव तीसरी सबसे बड़ी “हत्यारन” के रूप में उभरी है। इसका दायरा बढ़ रहा है और यह नए-नए क्षेत्रों को चपेट में ले रही है। क्या इसके लिए जलवायु परिवर्तन जिम्मेदार है?

The corals in the Gulf of Mannar suffered severe losses during the global coral bleaching event that occurred between March and October 2016, says a new study

Even as West Africa struggles to plug rampant illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing, rising sea surface temperature poses new challenges

They stress on the need for a comprehensive and party-driven negotiating text by Bangkok intersession in September 2018

Support smallholders, family farmers to reduce poverty, says FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva at a regional conference in Russia

The impact of climate change on the spread of diseases in Africa is well established but there is little data available for action

The West Bengal State Climate Action Plan expressed concern over reduced productivity of Darjeeling tea due to increase in extended drought periods

A recent study says that land-use change interacts with climate to determine species redistribution

While some Parties are emphasisng the need to focus on existing features of NDCs, others are calling for new features

The impacts of climate change are making the continent even more vulnerable

Indian scientists have confirmed and tracked the retreat—over 3kms—of an important Himalayan glacier, attributing it to climate change, and giving a shape to the changes to come

Global warming is manifesting itself over parts of India in the maximum temperatures observed during the warm pre-monsoon period

NASA's Carbon Monitoring System provides data on greenhouse gas emissions and carbon stocks to help countries evaluate their progress towards reducing atmospheric CO2

Prem Shankar Jha makes a case for solar energy while tracing the history of global warming

While extended range forecast shows some signs of an early onset, other meteorological conditions have shrouded the forecast in uncertainty

With Parties differing on their fundamental stances, creation of a robust and fair Paris climate rule book looks like a tough task

While the Bonn meet was packed with hundreds of parallel meetings, progress on readying a text for COP 24 has been slow

Four out of five glaciers could disappear entirely within the next twenty years, it warns

Over the next two and half years, the negotiating group will meet five times to discuss and prepare reports on the work required for each of the six agenda items

Unusually high temperature has aided such intense storms across the country, indicating more turbulent days ahead

International shipping produces as much CO2 as aircraft. Here’s what we can do about that

The two-day dialogue on loss and damage could not move beyond stating the obvious and raising concerns over roadblocks

Developed countries, including US, were seen obstructing an attempt by the Africa group to submit a draft decision on climate financing

From cloudburst in Himachal, dust storms in Rajasthan and UP to lightning in Andhra Pradesh and devastating rainfall in Haryana and Punjab, freak weather is making its presence felt

Local authorities say that the death toll due to the dust storm is expected to rise

Scientists reason why the beneficial weather phenomenon has become increasingly disastrous

Nawabshah, in Sindh, registered a sweltering 50.2 degree Celsius on April 30

It is misguided to blame armed conflict and violence on climate change alone

Did a change in climate caused or contributed to a mass extinction around 260 million years ago?

Interestingly, Himalayan states such as Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim have seen the highest increase in annual mean minimum and maximum temperature over the last few decades

Rapidly rising sea level might force a climate-sceptic regime to rethink its policies and safeguard lives and security assets

Two reports reveal that the African powerhouse’s productivity could decline by 11 per cent due to climate change’s impact on its small farmers

For the first time ever, an international coalition of leading researchers, scientists and policymakers has come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change.

From Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense.

Moving out of nature's timing can mess up the food chain

Climate change is rapidly warming the Earth and altering ecosystems on land and at sea that produce our food

A host of climate change-related problems bedevil the district’s women and girls, unlike men and boys

These holes could not only hasten glacial melt but also host unique ecosystems