The Anthropocene: Looking back to move forward

2023 will be a significant year for humanity. Scientists will vote to define the Anthropocene as the new geological epoch

Simultaneous heatwaves across 5 continents: What’s unfolding in front of us

DTE analyses data put out by climatologist & weather historian Maximiliano Herrera

Semantics of Anthropocene: Have humans really formed a new era

The Earth will hardly notice when we humans are gone, just as it hardly knew we were here

Are we inured to weather crises?

Not the number of natural disasters; we now need to keep an account of losses and damages

Anthropocene doesn't exist and species of the future will not recognise it

The Anthropocene has come to fore as a powerful if perplexing way of talking about our current era

Global warming is real: Research predicts 6-fold rise in fish mass die-offs by 2100

These die-offs may have detrimental effects on the functioning of our ecosystem and food security

Messengers of the gods: 1,400-year religious protection of sika deer in Japan’s Nara have made them genetically unique

Deer around the shrine were found to have unique mitochondrial DNA, which is passed only from mother to offspring

Raptor attention: 160 species of birds of prey endangered worldwide

The threats to the birds are a result of habitat loss, pollution, human–wildlife conflicts and climate change  

Anthropocene in the Arctic

A behind the scenes account of how the scientific community came to terms with the changing landscape of the Arctic

Hawaii’s devastating wildfire is linked with climate change

Mitigating the impact of wildfires requires a multifaceted approach that involves prevention, preparedness, response and recovery strategies

UN Environment Assembly: Livestock 'fart' is back in focus

An advance note of UNEP’s executive director lists meat consumption as an unmanageable threat to global warming  

We have crossed the line on climate change, says study

Report reveals that we have breached four of nine limits and threatened the planet’s health

Simply Put: What would Noah do today

Heatwaves in Europe, North America ‘virtually impossible’ without anthropogenic emissions: WWA

The heat event in China was made 50 times more likely by human-induced climate change

India must protect its rare, unique and endangered plants and trees

A systematic species recovery programme is the need of the hour

Floodplain loss: Basins of Irrawaddy, Tapi, Indus, Cauvery rivers flowing through India altered most due to human activities

Asia lost the biggest area of floodplains among all continents from 1992-2019

Global warming is real and 2020 is among 3 warmest year ever

Decade 2011-2020 set to be the warmest decade ever recorded

Drop in air pollution in India during 2020 nationwide lockdown slowed snow melting in Himalayas, finds study

Snow & ice melt reduced by more than 27 million tonnes compared to 2019