Europe’s ‘pyroregions’: Summer 2022 saw 20-year freak fires in regions historically immune, close to normal in fire prone areas
Expansion of fire-prone pyroregions in southern Europe is projected under various warming scenarios
Will India be able to survive heatwaves of the future?
Over the last 60 years, India has witnessed a rise in meteorological droughts and heatwaves, with the frequency and intensity increasing
Inflation Reduction Act: What does this new bill mean for climate change mitigation?
Overall, the new bill is the first big step the US is taking to avoid runaway climate change
Tonga volcano spews enough water to fill 58,000 pools into stratosphere, likely to add to global warming
Excess stratospheric H2O will persist for years, could affect stratospheric chemistry and dynamics and may lead to surface warming
Climate change denial: ExxonMobil may face trial
Massachusetts High Court case accuses fossil fuel major of decieving investors, breaking laws
IPCC AR6 (Part III): Cut emissions across all sectors to keep temperature rise to 1.5°C
According to the report, limiting warming to around 1.5°C requires global GHG emissions to peak before 2025 and reduce by 43 per cent by 2030
Asani: The first cyclone of 2022
The storm will move northwards along and off the Andamans, towards the Myanmar and south Bangladesh coast in the next 48 hours
Central banks and climate change: How they can play a role in managing the fallout
Central banks set interest rates, which determines the prices of goods and services. This, in turn, influences the climate impacts of their …
Lessons from Zimbabwe’s tobacco farmers for the COP26 climate change talks
Tobacco, as with much agricultural production, promotes unsustainable modes of commodification and consumption of nature
Sunita Narain: We have to build a climate-resilient world to end human suffering from climate change
The world’s climate crisis means we are seeing more intense storms, rising sea levels, increased drought and more human suffering. In an …
More than 5 million people die each year because of extreme temperature conditions
More people died of cold than heat over the two-decade period of a recent study. But heat-related deaths were increasing, while cold-linked …
Canadian province saw 12,000 lightning strikes in a day
Canada is currently battling more than 180 wildfires in British Columbia, emergency services say
Can thunderstorms tell us more about climate change
Scientists spot correlation between storms in US Southern Great Plains and variations in climate
Rapid thaw of permafrost can release large volumes of greenhouse gases
Scientists have warned that vast swaths of permafrost across the Arctic may thaw much before the current projections, releasing vast amounts of …
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
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 …
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
'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 …
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
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
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 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