World Water Day 2020: How water can be used in the battle against climate change
It is an enabling and limiting factor in humanity’s ability to mitigate and adapt to climate change
New CoP 26 Glasgow president: Alok Sharma distracts from national ambition
Nature-based solutions and Net Zero are welcome and adaptation finance is crucial. But they must not distract from enhancing countries’ …
Draft EU climate law: Too little ambition, net-zero target too late
2050 global net-zero goals only ensure 66 per cent chance of limiting warming to 1.5°C; high levels of ambition needed
BP and British media must stop green-washing
All promises of climate action must come with estimates of costs and emissions mitigated
Human actions have made a huge mess of natural world
Even though this biodiversity crisis is humanity’s fault, there is still time to save the Earth if governments, companies and individuals …
Lack of water intensifies distress in the Mahanadi basin
Climate change at the global and local levels is reducing water flow in the Mahanadi river, severely impacting agriculture. Tackling that …
Temperature increase could accelerate rise in antibiotic resistance
Temperature and population density could facilitate transmission and thus increase in antibiotic resistance, say scientists
Gabon destroys Africa's single most extensive mangrove area for construction
Weak legislation, corruption, lack of data are compunding environmental problems in a country which has over 10% of its area covered by national parks
China and India’s border dispute is a slow-moving environmental disaster
Almost half the world’s population and 20% of its economy depend on Himalayan rivers. China and India’s …
The UAE wants to build a 'rainmaking mountain' – are we all ok with that?
The point is that hills make rain – or to be more precise, hills can create the conditions which cause moisture in the air to condense and …
India announces 8 new observatories to study the impacts of climate change
The observatories will conduct research on the impact of climate change on bird populations, freshwater lakes in the Himalayan region, movement …
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 …
Livestock rearer deals with climate change
Pastoralist Voices on Climate Change, directed by Joana Roque de Pinho, Lindsay Simpson and Nicolas Tapia
Black heart
The atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are increasing and a rise in global temperatures seems imminent
Greenhouse break
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Developed nations refuse to reform
Industrialised nations continue to be the major contnlxftrs of greenhouse gases and their emissions are increasing
Bumpy ride
At the recent Berlin Climate Summit, amid North-South wrangles, an agreement was reached to detail how to - and who has to reduce greenhouse gas …
No climate for change
Despite Third World pressures, the Northern countries refused self-restraint in the Berlin Climate Change summit
Convenient yardstick
Despite its disproportionately large carbon emissions, the US wants proportionate restrictions on the developing countries
Spy which loves nature
To record environmental trends US spy satellites will now be used for monitoring natural phenomena
HEADS or TAILS
A close look at the history of climate change negotiations reveals some alarmingly reckless traits in Indian policymaking
"Brown clouds are a transcontinental issue"
Asian Brown Clouds created a lot of heat in South Asia, a few years ago (see: 'Aerial Raid,' Down To Earth, August 15, 2002). Now the chief …
Climate change will create billion refugees, says study
Climate change is likely to create at least a billion refugees by 2050 according to a recent report.
Frigid is good
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Jairam Ramesh wants Centre and State to coordinate on a plan against climate change
Jairam Ramesh, India’s Union Minister of Forest and Environment briefs South Asian journalists on India’s stand on climate …