Ananlysis of the first week of COP 21
Chandra Bhushan talks about the first week of negotiations at the Paris Climate Change Conference COP21
Lived anomaly
Delhi-based non-profit Centre for Science and Environment has just released a book that suggests how farmers in India can be enabled to cope with …
Bonn climate conference 2015
The conference ended without making any headway. Ten days of negotiations were spent in streamlining the text for the Paris agreement, …
Climate changes alter height of Himalayan range
The average height of the Himalay has been going down over the last two million years because of climatic changes, surveys indicate.
For a better tomorrow
Unlike the first United Nations conference on climate change, the recently concluded second meet was marked by a desire to give the planet a …
Shades of equity
Negotiators from developing countries lack the strategy to put equity on the global climate change agenda. But the US has already begun to define …
'Slow, creeping catastrophe'
Former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Michael Zammit Cutajar, speaks to Anju …
Europe, US lawmakers want oil executive ousted from leading world climate talks
Dozens of members of the US Congress and European Parliament called for Sultan Al Jaber to be removed as COP28 president-delegate.
Climate impact: Europe is warming two times faster than rest of planet
Over 16,000 deaths in continent in 2022 due to meteorological, hydrological and climate-related hazards, found WMO & Copernicus …
High road to Dubai COP28: Scientists join group in saying 1.5°C warming limit too high
20-nation group point to global impacts on world’s ice sheets, glaciers and cryosphere
Climate change can trigger inflation in near future — study shows alarming impact
In a high GHG emissions scenario, by 2035, India will likely see food prices shoot up by close to 2% on an yearly basis
Increased chance of earth breaching 1.5°C in next five years
One of the years from 2023-2027 could be the warmest ever recorded, warns WMO
In 2023, for the first time ever, each day was at least 1°C warmer. Why this is worrying
Close to 50% of the days in 2023 were 1.5°C warmer than 1850-1900, compared to just over 20% in 2016
In 2023, at least 3 cases challenging climate inaction were filed every week: Reports
Climate litigations worldwide have nearly tripled since 2017; In 2024, cases related to climate impacts including extreme weather events & …
Should fat cats guard the cream?
Industrialised countries want to monitor their own compliance to the Kyoto Protocol.
Air pollution: WHO report identifies ways to mitigate health hazards
The report talks about ways to reduce the emission of short-lived climate pollutants
Drama over Loss and Damage
Australian and Norwegian negotiators block text, India wants an outcome.
Climate change threatens African great apes habitats, may witness frequent extreme climate events in future
Majority of ape sites would be subject to a high frequency of heatwaves, finds new research
Temperatures crossed 1.5°C for the whole of 2023; last month hottest January on record, say EU scientists
While the world has not yet breached the Paris Agreement target (an average global temperature over decades), it is moving ever closer to it
Mountain goats in Alps are turning nocturnal due to climate impact, making them more vulnerable to predators
Species’ need to escape excess heat outweighing drive to avoid predators, finds study
IPCC Special Report: India under constant threat of cyclones, coastal flooding
This report emphasises on what several scientists and researchers have been saying for a while now
From living in a mud house to a fixed roof, this Malawian farmer knows the value of climate-smart agriculture
Grace Manda from Malawi never thought a climate-resilient method of farming could help her build a fixed roof, send her kids to school, that too …
Climate impact: Rajasthan’s pre-monsoon rainfall was three times more than average this year
458% more rainfall for May; Bikaner’s highest single-day rainfall breaks all records
2022 too short, too far: How the climate emergency hit us
Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2022
An ocean like no other: The Southern Ocean’s ecological richness, significance for global climate
It stores heat and carbon, mixes global currents: The Southern Ocean, also called the Antarctic Ocean, can be best described in superlatives