World gets a yellow card
The Warsaw climate talks serve a grim warning to the world that inaction will cost, writes …
Power games at UN climate talks
Climate talks unfolded amid high drama. Developing countries protested inaction by …
One step forward, two steps back
Countries want to do little to keep global average temperature rise to below 2oC. The …
Flat in 20 days
Global climatic anomalies allied with local weather conditions produced the most freakish …
Alphonso’s last call?
The world’s best mango is perishing in coastal Maharashtra, which grows most of the …
Seeds of hope
Northern Bangladesh successfully fights its age-old famine-like situation by creating a new …
Forest fires getting more frequent. Is climate change the reason?
India as well as other countries are busy fighting forest fires
Forecasting failure
Met department has not learnt lessons from the Uttarakhand tragedy. It remains ill-equipped
Pray before you sow
2014 could be an El Niño year. This weather event has historically caused …
`I did not have a government for 36 hours'
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah pleaded helplessness as the seat of his …
The `hot' debate
Operationalisation of equity and financial assistance will determine the future of climate …
Cop-out
Hopes were pinned on the latest UN climate summit at Lima. It was supposed to prepare the …
Mass death decoded
Environmental contamination and extreme weather events are responsible for most die-offs …
Vanishing Eden
An entire colony of painted storks deserted Keoladeo mid-season this year. Is the wetland dying?
India's climate dilemma
Will India toe the US line of capping carbon emissions from farming?
Whose budget is it, Mr Jaitley?
Being the first full year budget of the National Democratic Alliance government, there was …
When flu turns fatal
In the past two months, as many as 1,198 people in India have died of swine flu, a disease …
Of stoves, kilns and a fine distinction between emissions
In the second week of March, activists, academics, policy-makers and experts in various …
People's cure to climate woes
Ecologically vulnerable Nepal has framed its climate change adaptation plan with the help …
Tensions that continue
While launching this newsmagazine, our founder-editor Anil Agarwal had said that in the …
Imbalance of footprints
Resource-rich countries remain poor, and they spend most of their income on food. Developed …
Protecting the ozone
Countries are participating in the 36th Meeting of Open-Ended Working Group of Parties to …