Climate Emergency CoP 25: Climate-linked health impacts not a priority yet, says WHO

Lack of funding is one of the reasons for the low priority

Global measles outbreak: Is this the new pandemic?

187 countries report measles cases

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 4, 2019)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal through the week

Battery prices falling sharply, says report

Cheaper batteries mean more sectors will get electrified with renewable energy, the analysis notes

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Large sections of western media insensitive to equity question

The Guardian and many others still believe developed nations are on track with climate targets

World Malaria Report: Despite a dip in cases, India still one of the worst-hit countries

While Africa and India saw the maximum dip in malaria cases between 2017 and 2018, they still accounted for 85 per cent deaths

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Global mean sea level highest-ever in 2019

The State of Global Climate 2019 says that this is yet another sign of the world being in a climate emergency

Climate Emergency CoP 25: World is hotter than ever before, says WMO

Paris agreement has failed to put brakes on emission rise

Climate Emergency CoP 25: 22 million people will be displaced in 2019 by extreme weather events, says WMO

The State of Global Climate 2019 says that once-in-a-century climate events are becoming regular

Climate Emergency CoP 25: A storm is brewing on ‘Loss and Damage’

It is different from mitigation and adaptation, and it needs finance

Climate Emergency CoP 25: What leaders will discuss at the meet

The four issues that world leaders are expected to discuss at the 12-day meet  

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Climatic tipping point is closer than we think

Scientists confirm that we are indeed in a climate emergency

35 years of Bhopal Gas Tragedy: I waited for 20 years, but nobody studied autopsy samples

D K Satpathy, former head of the Medico-legal Institute of Madhya Pradesh, had preserved hundreds of autopsy samples of gas victims, but none of the government agencies agreed to study them

35 years of Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Anil Agarwal on what happened that fateful night

Anil Agarwal, founder of Centre for Science and Environment and founder editor of Down To Earth, was in Bhopal immediately after the tragedy. This piece captures the state of affairs 15 days into the tragedy

Technical committee formed to create National Elephant Action Plan

The main focus of the NEAP will be to mitigate human-elephant conflict, along with improvement of habitat

Djibouti receives two years’ worth of rain in a single day

The East African country, along with neighbours, Kenya and Somalia might be in store for more flooding in the next few days

Rains could intensify further in flood-hit Tamil Nadu, Puducherry

15 of 32 Tamil Nadu’s districts received more than 10 times the normal rainfall on December 1

Climate Emergency CoP 25: UN member states continue to default on payments

7.2 million euros outstanding till November 15, 2019

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Saudi Arabia to delay oil fossil fuel phase-out

It has consistently lobbied that oil-producing countries should be compensated for phasing out fossil fuels

Climate Emergency CoP 25: India is the only major economy to be ‘2 degree compatible’

The US, China and the EU are ‘highly insufficient’ in their efforts to reduce GHG emissions

Climate Emergency CoP 25: 70% of top polluting countries failed to meet GHGs reduction target

Countries should have been on track to meet the first round of their emission reduction targets under the 2015 Paris Agreement.