Drought turns up the heat on wildfire recovery in western US, NASA data reveals

Research finds that when droughts coincide with wildfires, the recovery process takes a significant hit

How climate change could affect the microbes that ferment grapes and give wine its specific flavours

Samples taken from 2018 vintage contained certain organisms that seemed to be completely absent in 2021 vintage

New Climate Finance Goal: Too many options, too little time?

The first round of deliberations for the post-2025 climate finance goal are to be held in Colombia in April 2024, divergences between developed …

Climate crisis everywhere, all at once: Record-breaking temperature in 10 countries across 4 continents

Indonesia, South Africa, Gabon, Kenya, South Sudan, Algeria, Tunisia, Guyana, Colombia and Rio burning up

In Himachal Pradesh, Hindus and Buddhists organise religious ceremonies for rain & snow

With the 3-month-long dry spell continuing in the state, people say they have been left with few alternatives

Ancient Roman wine production may hold clues for battling climate change

Though Romans consumed even more wine than we do today, ancient vineyards in Italy looked radically different

COP28 Recap: What was discussed at the Mitigation Work Programme?

The final text agreed on December 13, acknowledges the Global Dialogues and the summary report produced by the Co-Chairs

‘Government failed us’: Sikki artisans suffer livelihood losses amid climate change & state apathy

Sikki artisans complain about the deteriorating quality of grass due to continual spike in temperature

COP28: Global Stocktake adopted, final text attempts stronger language on fossil fuels

Language calling out production of fossil fuels is now missing — a trade off for not making actions optional

India opposed rapid coal phaseout part in GST text; demanded entire operative part on fossil fuel be modified

Target trillions, demanded an Indian negotiator; claimed support of most countries in opposing the text  

COP28: India spent about Rs 13.35 lakh crore in 2021-22 on climate adaptation

This is just over 5.5 per cent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product

Simply Put: COP28 ends

Simply Put: False hopes

CSE & DTE roundtable: What to expect from COP28

Global stocktake, loss and damage, mitigation, carbon markets, decarbonisation and climate finance. Here is what can happen at COP28

Drought emergency declared by 23 countries in 2022-23, shows global drought map

1.84 billion people were drought stricken, out of which 4.7% exposed to severe or extreme drought

COP28 diary (November 30): Loss and damage Fund becomes operational on first day

Though $550 million is good to start up the LDF on its first day, it is far short of the billions required to actually address the needs of …

Climate change made the multi-year drought 25 times more likely in Syria and Iraq, 16 times in Iran: Analysis

If the world warms 2°C above the preindustrial era, similar droughts are predicted to strike about twice as often as they do now

In 4 years, India lost over 30 million hectares of healthy land to degradation: UN data

This is almost 10% of all the country's entire landmass 

How climate change is affecting the seasons

One of the most noticeable effects of climate change is the changing patterns of vegetation seasonality around us

Dark underbelly of carbon trade

CSE-DTE’s investigation has found inconvenient truths, which should lead us to change

Migratory birds arrive in Odisha’s Chilika before winter; is climate change to blame?

Early onset of winter in their native habitats could have prompted the birds to fly & descend in Chilika this early

Faster disaster: Climate change fuels ‘flash droughts’, intense downpours and storms

As we continue to warm the planet, we’ll see more flash droughts and more intense ones

Simply Put: Antarctica ice sheet

Over 31,000 evacuated from Beijing as Typhoon Doksuri breaks rainfall records

Doksuri is China’s fifth and most powerful typhoon seen in 2023 

Tourists flock to the Mediterranean as if the climate crisis isn’t happening. This year’s heat and fire will force change

Warm-weather tourist destinations will have to radically change