Climate change will make rice less nutritious, putting millions of the world's poor at risk

As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise, rice plants produce fewer vitamins and other key nutrients

Rising CO2 level can lead to drier Amazon and bring more rain in African and Pacific forests

Large-scale changes in rainfall can happen based on how tropical forests respond to excess CO2 in the atmosphere

The three-minute story of 800,000 years of climate change with a sting in the tail

Since the industrial revolution, CO2 levels in the atmosphere have climbed to levels that are unprecedented

Smartphones would be environmentally the most destructive device by 2020: study

85 per cent of their emissions impact comes from production because it needs a lot of energy to produce chip and motherboard of smartphones

Global warming likely to be in the range of 2.2-3.4°C by 2100, breaching limit set under Paris deal

While chance of cataclysmic levels of warming is miniscule, but achieving Paris climate deal’s objective more uncertain

Even protected forest areas are significant source of CO2 emission: study

Most of the carbon-emitting protected areas are located in Brazil and Indonesia

US scraps CO2 monitoring programme that doesn’t cost more than a battle tank

NASA's Carbon Monitoring System provides data on greenhouse gas emissions and carbon stocks to help countries evaluate their progress towards …

CO2 levels increasing at unprecedented rate: UN report

Average CO2 concentrations in 2016 reached 403.3 PPM, up from 400PPM in 2015

World breached safe atmospheric CO2 levels 33 years ago

Global consumption of fossil fuels, the primary source of CO2 emissions, has gone up by 78 per cent in last three decades

Climate crisis continues unabated: United in science, but are we united in action?

While emissions fell during the peak of the pandemic confinement measures, they have already mostly recovered to within 5% of the same period in …

IPCC Fifth Assessment Report holds no big surprise

What it does is to reiterate that climate change is happening because of mankind. Will the report finally prompt nations to act?

From India Environment Portal

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Global CO2 levels breach 400 mark again

This time, the level stayed above 400 ppm for a month, leading researchers to call it ‘a milestone’ for the planet on its way to …

New NASA video shows how carbon dioxide flows in Earth’s atmosphere

Nearly all emissions of the greenhouse gas originate in the Northern Hemisphere