Extreme impact

WMO report highlights impact of record-breaking extreme weather on human safety, well-being and environment

Protracted recovery

As the UN celebrates 30th anniversary of Montreal Protocol, scientists warn of new threats to the ozone layer that has begun to heal

On road to resilience

Systematically improving micro-climate at a local level and not depending on global processes could help create a climate-resilient society

Remote Sensing: the biggest tool to study climate change

Jadu Dash is a professor of remote sensing at the faculty of social, human and mathematical sciences within geography and environment at the …

Climate change blamed for anthrax outbreak in north Russia

A total of 72 nomadic herders have been hospitalised in the town of Salekhard in the Arctic Circle

Parched hills

Women are the worst sufferers of the water crisis in Uttarakhand. Why are the hills going dry?

Amitav Ghosh in conversation with Sunita Narain

Amitav Ghosh in conversation with Sunita Narain on his new book The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

Limiting HFCs should not be a burden on the developing world

Developing countries should guard against a weak phase-down of the super-warming hydrofluorocarbons in the ongoing Montreal Protocol

Can it be different this time?

Can developing countries find a way to get an ambitious and equitable outcome at the negotiations for the HFC phase-down amendment to the …

Green Climate Fund and other updates in climate finance

Progress on climate finance remains slow with insuficient funds and delay in implementation

Plan of inaction

How the US president sold an unambitious plan to clean the power sector as historical

‘Attribution studies help increase awareness about links between human activities and climate change’

Down To Earth talks to Wenxia Zhang, author of paper on attribution of extreme heat & drought events in 2022 at COP28

COP27 diary (November 17): Details on loss and damage facility, phasing out coal missing from ‘Cover Decision’ draft

A round-up of what went on at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit  

PM’s climate change council has not met in almost 7 years

Who is, then, advising the PM for his climate goal announcements?

High road to Dubai COP28: Here is how Global Stocktake talks fared in week 1 at Bonn

Adaptation, finance and pre-2020 implementation gap highlighted at Bonn Climate Conference

Rural women have resilience to cope with climate risks: study

Women use creative ways to manage food and nutrition security in their households in lean months, shows an ongoing study in Faizabad, Uttar …

CSE projections show world is on a temperature path of more than 3 degrees

With the US and EU misappropriating more than their fair share of carbon budgets, Asia and Africa will have very little space for growth after …

Warsaw climate talks: Farm emissions kept out of COP 19

G77+China successfully counter move by EU to add agriculture as a source of emissions for purpose of accounting

Study finds land availability limited to achieve biodiversity targets and apply climate mitigation strategy

Commitment of 120 million sq km for land-based carbon dioxide removal potentially conflicts with “30x30” target

November 2023 was warmest November on record globally, 1.75°C warmer than pre-industrial era: Copernicus

2023 officially warmest year in recorded history

Heatwaves arrive early in 2023; hit 11 states from March 3 to April 18

22 states/UTs recorded above-normal maximum temperature on April 18, 2023

Rewilding Tasmania with emus will be good for the island state’s ecosystems

Why did the Tasmanian emus go extinct and should we reintroduce them?

Only 10 of 46 Least Developed Countries mention loss and damage explicitly in NDCs: Study

IIED urges countries to revise their NDCs before CoP27 and mention losses and damages

More livestock, more carbon dioxide, less ice: The world’s climate change progress since 2019 is (mostly) bad news

Especially troubling is the unprecedented surge in climate-related disasters since 2019

Globally, 9 million girls face extreme risks of climate disaster and child marriage every year: Report

The combination of threats has created emergency hotspots for girls’ rights in Bangladesh and across sub-Saharan Africa