Whither the National Green Tribunal?
Instead of giving financial and administrative support to the NGT, efforts are usually directed towards diluting its powers, defeating the very …
Saving coral reefs like these can save other ecosystems
Limiting greenhouse gas emissions, rebuilding fish stocks and improving quality of water can help protect reefs
Rising temperatures in Indian Ocean can boost Atlantic’s ocean currents: Study
Weakening of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation can have dramatic consequences for Europe and other parts of the Atlantic rim
Not enough funds to combat desertification, degradation: UNCCD chief Ibrahim Thiaw
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification executive secretary bats for private funds
How to create an oasis
Communities across the world are building on their traditional experiences to achieve land degradation neutrality
Only positive intervention can undo losses humans have caused to Earth: Javadekar
India's environment minister calls for a ‘Delhi Declaration’ at the end of UNCCD CoP14
African leaders meet to draw plan for a climate-resilient continent
They noted that while Africa contributed the least to global emissions, it is the first in line of suffering the dramatic consequences of them
Global environmental change alters grasslands
Grasslands store 30 per cent of the world's carbon making them crucial in combating climate change
Every month in 2019 among 4 warmest such month: Report
July 2019 was recorded as the warmest month globally and has re-written climate history, with dozens of new temperature records at local, …
UK faunascape changes with climate change
Scientists identifed 55 species of invertebrates, mammals and birds that moved out of their natural range or arrived in the UK between …
French photographer finds ‘alarming’ lake high in Alps
Bryan Mestre discovered the meltwater lake at an altitude of 3,400 metres at the base of the Dent du Géant and the Aiguilles Marbré…
Mumbai rains once again prove climate change is no hoax
The number of rainy days is decreasing while intense rainfall events are increasing globally
Blazing India: The sun beats down mercilessly on Vidarbha
With no rains yet and the heat wave still on, the situation in Maharashtra’s easternmost region has everybody worried
Experts seek more protected areas in Sikkim
Sikkim harbours many endemic plant species and studies have predicted that about 17-18 per cent of endemic plants may get wiped out by 2050 …
Climate emergency: It is time to prepare for severe floods that will hit South Asia
Models show that for a 3°C rise in mean temperature, number of people annually affected in South Asia can more than triple, disrupting lives …
IPCC Report 2021: What do we expect in future?
The rise in average surface temperature beyond 1.5 or 2°C will be breached much earlier; extreme weather events may become worse with time
Writing on the wall: Himachal govt report warned of rise in cloudbursts, landslides in 2012
Rainy days in Himachal would go up by 5-10 days by 2030, the report by Himachal government had warned
Series of cloudbursts cause flash floods in western Himalayas, across India and Pakistan
Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh in India and Islamabad and Rawalpindi in Pakistan have been affected due to flash floods July 28, 2021
Climate crisis: Is Earth destabilising?
Until now, it was all climate change and global warming to us. But the contention that that is just one among the others, is a great revelation
WATCH: How cyclones influence monsoon arrival
An early monsoon over Kerala is not indicative of the impact over rest of the country; monsoon rains may arrive over central India …
Has COVID-19 affected forest management? UN says quite a lot
Around 1.6 billion people rely on forests for their subsistence needs and livelihoods; COVID-19 is driving vulnerable communities into forests, …
Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden differ deeply on climate justice, common sense
Senators Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are not far apart in their climate rhetoric
Earth getting greener, NASA's new maps confirm
A significant increase in green cover in boreal and Arctic regions was observed in the updated maps
Climate emergency: A question of semantics?
Framing the changing climate as an emergency is preventing progress towards climate action
Small, marginal farmers hit hard by poor paddy procurement in Bihar
Govt agencies have procured hardly 11 per cent of targeted procurement of paddy since November 15 last year