Climate Emergency CoP 25: Madrid, the longest CoP ever, ends in disappointment

Never-before-seen disconnect between what climate science and people demand and what governments deliver on display at the summit

Climate Crisis: Increased evidence of maladaptation, says IPCC Synthesis Report

India has many examples of maladaptation, making vulnerable communities becoming more helpless to climate impact

कॉप-27 का हासिल: नुकसान एवं क्षति कोष को मंजूरी, मजबूरी या जरूरी?

मौसमी गतिविधियों के चलते क्षति और नुकसान का जो आकलन किया जाता है, उसमें मौसमी गतिविधियों के गैर-आर्थिक प्रभाव शामिल नहीं होते

Clear signs: 1.5°C warmer world to be catastrophic for India

DTE pieces together latest IPCC data to chart how temperature, rainfall patterns in India’s states will change in a 1.5°C warmer world

Union Budget 2020-21 spares little for climate mitigation

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman reiterates old announcements, cuts budget for National Adaptation Fund  

Arctic has warmed thrice as much as the planet in the last 50 years: Report

Cold spells lasting more than 15 days have almost completely disappeared from the Arctic since 2000, according to a new report

Unusual rains cause locust attacks in UP, MP after 27 years

Excess rainfall in March, April and early May, along with north westerly winds due to Super cyclone Amphan carried locusts to areas they did …

International Day of Climate Action: All talk, no show on Paris Agreement targets

Countries may have announced grandiose plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but they are unlikely to meet the global target to become carbon …

जलवायु आपातकाल, कॉप-25: बेहद निराशा के साथ संपंन हुआ सम्मेलन

कॉप-25 में जलवायु विज्ञान और लोग जो चाहते हैं, उसको लेकर कोई निर्णय नहीं लिया जा सका, जो बेहद निराशाजनक है

जलवायु आपातकाल, कॉप-25: दोहा में बताये रास्ते पर चले दुनिया: भारत और चीन

दुनिया के दो सबसे घनी आबादी वाले देशों ने भी विकसित देशों द्वारा दिए जा रहे अपर्याप्त धन पर चिंता व्यक्त की है

Climate change kills 98% insects in Puerto Rico’s rainforest: study

This decline will majorly impact the forest plantation and the animals living there

Centre constitutes committee for implementation of 2015 Paris Agreement

The committee will also act as a national authority for the regulation of carbon markets in India

Turbulent times: How climate is altering major markers of planet Earth

As countries grapple with intense marine heat waves and stronger storms, the latest IPCC report says climate change has already altered our oceans,…

Horn of Africa drought made 100 times more likely by climate change

Low rainfall and high evapotranspiration would not have led to droughts without global warming, study shows

Weather alerts: Will everyone continue to have access

Amid mushrooming private, for-profit enterprises will old-fashioned public players be able to serve weather data for free

Climate impact: Europe is warming two times faster than rest of planet

Over 16,000 deaths in continent in 2022 due to meteorological, hydrological and climate-related hazards, found WMO & Copernicus …

डाउन टू अर्थ विश्लेषण: कॉप-27 से क्या हुआ हासिल?

मिस्र के शहर शर्म अल शेख शहर में एक पखवाड़े तक चले कॉप-27 में आखिरकार नुकसान व क्षति के लिए कोष बनाने की मंजूरी ...

जलवायु संकट-3: पूर्वाेत्तर भारत में मंडरा रहा है बड़ा खतरा

जलवायु परिवर्तन ने भारत में जैव विविधता से भरे-पूरे पूर्वोत्तर राज्यों को कम होती मॉनसूनी बारिश और अचानक आने वाली बाढ़ के खतरे में ...

Explainer series: Tracking climate crisis in North East India

Some villages are parched, some are seeing unusual floods: The climate crisis is doing the unimagineable in North East India. DTE tells …

Monsoon watch: The 2019 season has the sure-shot imprint of climate change

The monsoon has played truant this year, with many areas now under floods, which were facing drought earlier

COP27: ‘Translation between change in weather and damages is not linear’

Down To Earth talks to Friederike Otto, climate scientist at Imperial College London about the science of weather attribution

Greenhouse gas levels hit new high in 2020: WMO

The average global warming would exceed Paris Agreement’s target of global temperature rise of 2°C above pre-industrial levels&…

‘Antarctic sea ice has transitioned to a different state with less volume overall, shorter presence’

Sea ice scientist Petra Heil on consequences of low Antarctic sea ice extent & role of anthropogenic warming

Climate change is causing Western Disturbances to weaken; here is how

The warming of the Arctic and the Mediterranean Sea mean that Western Disturbances are striking India less in winter and more in summer; with …

‘February 7 appears to be what I would call a rock avalanche’

Down To Earth speaks to Daniel Shugar from the University of Calgary in Canada on what exactly could have happened in Chamoli