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Sunita Narain's Desk: End the annual charades

End the annual charades
Illustration: Yogendra Anand/CSE

The annual climate summit and our own annual pollution circus have both become excuses for showcasing action that is utterly inadequate and unserious

Cover story: Earth is warming faster

Earth is warming faster
Illustrations: Ritika Bohra / CSE

Changes in weather systems, once expected decades hence, appear to be unfolding now. In India the consequences are intensifying

Special report: Setback in Hasdeo

The Ghatbarra case garnered attention as Adani Group’s mining activities in Hasdeo Arand has faced opposition and protest due to environment destruction and impact on native communities
The Ghatbarra case garnered attention as Adani Group’s mining activities in Hasdeo Arand has faced opposition and protest due to environment destruction and impact on native communities(Photograph courtesy: x/@tribalVoice99_)

Chhattisgarh high court order upholds mining in the state’s Hasdeo Arand forest over community claims, challenging core tenets of Forest Rights Act

Special Report: It’s all in the name

It’s all in the name
Illustration: Yogendra Anand/CSE

The Delhi High Court has ruled that no product in India can carry the label ‘ORS’ unless it strictly adheres to the formula recommended by the World Health Organization

Special report: Heavier footprints

Climate inequality deepening: “Tax the carbon content of assets and investments held by the wealthiest”
Photo for representation.Johnny Greig via iStock

Investments and capital owned by the world’s wealthiest few are driving the climate crisis, according to a first-of-its-kind report

Interview: ‘Tax the carbon content of investments of the rich’

‘Tax the carbon content of investments of the rich’
Representational photo from iStock

Economists Lucas Chancel and Cornelia Mohren, authors of ‘Climate Inequality Report 2025’, on how transition to a carbon-neutral future presents opportunities to reduce wealth and climate inequalities

Patently Absurd: ICAR’s claims exposed by its own data

ICAR’s claims exposed by its own data
Illustration: Yogendra Anand/CSE

Why has ICAR flouted crop testing rules and ignored data red flags to push gene-edited rice strains that will not benefit farmers?

Civil Lines: Uncle Sam’s hunger pangs

Uncle Sam’s hunger pangs
A homeless man in Manhattan, New York.Photo: iStock

High reliance of American people on food stamps tells the story of the US' acute hunger, poverty and inequality

Interview: 'Global South cities have a crucial opportunity to learn from costly mistakes elsewhere on land subsidence'


Global South cities have a crucial opportunity to learn from costly mistakes elsewhere on land subsidence: Leonard Ohenhen
Leonard Ohenhen

US academic Leonard Ohenhen on land subsidence in the US and the lessons it can offer to developing countries

Life and nature: Inherited cures

Inherited cures
Ashili Awomi, an 88-year-old Sumi Naga traditional healer, tends to a patient in Litta village of Zunheboto district, Nagaland. (Extreme right, top to bottom): Hairy white wand (Leucosceptrum canum), sau tree (Albizia chinensis) and beech wood (Gmelina arborea). (Photograph: Surupumi Photography)

The ethnomedicinal practices of the Sumi Nagas are a living knowledge system that need legal protection from biopiracy

Also find in-depth analysis on:

  • Shifting weather extremes in India and the world, in the words of scientists Raghu Murtugudde, Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay, Roxy Mathew Koll and Subimal Ghosh

  • Analysis on the state of the world's climate in the latest "Emissions Gap", "Adaptation Gap" and "State of the Global Climate" reports

  • Kerala's declaration of achieving poverty-free status

  • The imperfect science of cloud seeding

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