The twin sword of technology

Engineering solutions like carbon capture and storage create risks that necessitate even more ingenious fixes

New method to calculate carbon footprint of logistics supply chains

The framework combines existing methods to calculate emissions at a global level across all modes of transport such as road, rail, sea, …

Alternative Paris

Paris must agree to operationalise equity by accepting that the level of effort of each country’s INDC will be equal to its share of …

Understanding climate change

Did climate change begin with industrialisation? How do we identify ‘bad’ climate change?

Cooling Earth

Municipalities in the Netherlands are exerting pressure on the national government to reduce carbon dioxide emission by half by AD 2010

Black heart

The atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are increasing and a rise in global temperatures seems imminent

Global lungs or firewood for the poor?

Indiscriminate felling of trees to meet human and animal needs is not only depleting India's forest wealth at an alarming rate, but also …

In the grip of carbon dioxide

A global climate model devised in USA attempts to probe the connection between monsoon variability and increasing carbon dioxide concentration in …

Climate convention generates heat and dust

India passes back the buck to industrialised nations as wranglings over the Climate Change protocol continue

Scientific reticence is a serious threat when it comes to climate change

Professionals need to speak out on looming dangers even at the cost of getting it wrong

Noah's ark redux

In deep water: Emissions can add 15 inches to 2100 sea level rise, study finds

Greenland and Antarctica’s ice sheets could together contribute to this 38-cm rise — beyond the amount that has been projected …

Carbon offsetting gives social benefits worth US $664 per tonne: study

Businesses that are voluntarily offsetting their emissions are having a bigger impact on society than perceived, says study by Imperial College London

Brazil kicks off carbon neutral goal for FIFA World Cup

Transportation is expected to account for about 80 per cent of the carbon footprint during the event, says a report released by FIFA

India should receive $57 trillion in compensation from Global North for climate damages: Study 

US should provide a cumulative compensation of $80 trillion, the European Union and the United Kingdom owe $46 trillion & remaining …

An epic global study of moss reveals it is far more vital to Earth’s ecosystems than we knew

They are likely to play increasingly important roles as vascular plants decline under predicted hotter, drier & more variable global climates

Durban turning futile as EU buries head in sand

With the carbon market in doldrums, emerging economies like India will have to announce bolder schemes for a low carbon future

COP27: African countries launch ‘game-changing’ carbon credits initiative

Target to provide 300 million carbon credits every year by 2030

A peek into the world of fungi

First-of-its-kind global study shows soil fungi can directly impact climate change

Organic v conservative

Scientists contest an age-old agricultural technique

Paddy cultivation reduces global warming

Trees are not very effective carbon sinks

Air pollution linked to 15% global COVID-19 deaths: Study

Contributed to 27% COVID-19 deaths in East Asia; 19% in Europe, 17% in North America 

Record greenhouse gas emissions: Time running out, warns UN

Urgent need to slash carbon dioxide emissions, says World Meteorological Organization

Why geoengineering is still a dangerous, techno-utopian dream

Experts have increasingly warned against manipulating Earth’s natural systems