The climate for a change

Hot and anxious

Global climate change is today a spectre which allows for no ostriches

Simply Put: CoP 25

Cyclone Maha: Landfall likely Nov 6

Expect rains, a rough sea, damage to crops and property

Public good approach to weather data not suitable for commercial purposes: WMO director

Dimitar Ivanov, director at Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization, speaks to Down to Earth on the public vs private debate in …

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 Warriors: After Greta, now meet Hilda

Hilda Flavia Nakabuye is a 22-year-old Ugandan college student, who recently delivered a powerful speech in Copenhagen on the climate crisis

Sustainable climate policy cannot dodge the question of consumption

Climate policy rooted in aggressively perpetuating consumption cannot guarantee more than a temporary respite from ecological crisis

Simply put: Skolstrejk för Klimatet

'Climate change reversal unlikely; mantra is to adapt'

Down To Earth speaks to Anjal Prakash, associate professor, Regional Water Studies, TERI School of Advanced Studies, on the IPCC Report's …

A new kind of climate leadership

Today’s climate and environmental movements lack a diversity of perspectives and people, and don’t acknowledge or adequately value …

Simply Put: COP 14 Combat desertification

How vulnerable are we: Mapping climate change in India

This set of factsheets maps the potential climate change impacts on various agro-ecological zones in India

How prehistoric people faced climate change revealed by video game technology

Volunteers come together to play; their results help model what reality could have been

'Climate catastrophe' and not 'Climate change'

Even as a major British newspaper changes its terms for climate change, it is imperative that India, suffering the most from it, builds a …

Is climate change to blame for Bihar’s bad litchi harvest?

Unusually high temperatures during the fruiting season in April and May could be the reason, say farmers and scientists

Shark Bay: A World Heritage Site at catastrophic risk

A 2018 workshop classified Shark Bay as being in the highest category of vulnerability to future climate change. 

Jamdani: How cotton gets niche and green

How the women of Burdwan and Nadia districts in West Bengal weave magic

COP 24: Limited progress, limited ambition at end of Week One in Katowice

Extremely tough to have a complete and robust, fair and ambitious rulebook within the stipulated time, Parties also need to revise their NDCs by 2020.

New council to ensure sustainable development of Himalayan region

Set up by the NITI Aayog, the council will work on five thematic areas significant for the Himalayas, including tourism, skills, shifting …

IPCC 1.5 Report: Mitigation pathways clear, but countries need to commit

“Far-reaching transitions” in energy, land, infrastructure and industrial systems are needed

How India's temperature has been rising over the years

Chandra Bhushan, deputy director general, Centre for Science and Environment, analyses temperature data from 1901 to 2017 to understand the situation

Is climate change making our food less nutritious?

This video explains why we should be worried about climate change vis-à-vis nutritional security. It could actually make our food …

'Energy poverty hurts women'

Women's participation should be considered while making policy on access to energy and management, says an expert

Intense dust storm catches Rajasthan, UP unawares

Local authorities say that the death toll due to the dust storm is expected to rise