Why I mourn Dussehra: Climate change and death of seasons
People of Odisha have given a clear verdict: from number of seasons to mating habits of birds, they say everything has changed as a result of …
Global Carbon Pricing: The Path to Climate Cooperation
After twenty-five years of failure, climate negotiations continue to use a “pledge and review” approach: countries pledge (almost …
Old answers for ‘new’ monsoon
Mitigating floods and droughts has only one answer: obsessive attention to building millions and millions of connected and living water structures
We have missed the bus again
Government lost the opportunity of using fiscal signals to discourage polluting technologies and fuels
What Donald Trump's win means for climate change?
Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General of CSE talks the change in climate change politics after Donald Trump becomes the president of the …
Issues at stake in COP 22
The COP summit in Marrakech may be crucial for negotiations on some long-standing issues at the UNFCCC
Sunita Narain in conversation with Amitav Ghosh
In his new book, novelist Amitav Ghosh examines our inability-at the level of literature, history and politics-to grasp the scale and violence of …
America’s first ‘climate refugees’ and a vanishing island
The island, which had over 22,000 acres of land in 1955, has lost about 98 per cent of it due to sea level rise, saltwater intrusion and subsidence
Climate Change and Extreme Weather- Beyond Simple Causation: An interview with Krishna Achuta Rao
Krishna AchutaRao is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Atmospheric Science, IIT Delhi. He talks about the extreme weather events and it's …
Freak Weather and Climate Change 2015: In Conversation with Shreeshan Venkatesh
The year 2015 will be remembered for 'freak weather' events all around the world. Are such events here to stay? A discussion with Science …
'Climate change may render impossible what remains of traditional Inuit life patterns'
Stephen R Bown says 'Father of Eskimology' Knud Rasmussen's writings are literary masterpieces and constitute a priceless contribution to …
International Mountain Day: Highland people to face vagaries of weather, food insecurity
Released on the occasion of Mountain Day, two reports highlight climate threats to high altitude areas
We need to convince the world about 1.5 degrees when there is still a lot of quibbling about 2
J.R. Nereus O Acosta Secretary Office of the Presidential Adiviser for Environmental Protection, Philippine on the new momentum at COP21 to …
'Money in climate fund hardly enough for grassroots programmes'
Lidy Nacpil is the regional coordinator of Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (Philippines)
Increasing ocean acidity will hit the marine food chain, says study
Increasing acidification impacts phytoplankton, which in turn will drastically affect the fish population
I (don’t) care
Poland is not the only problem. Every developed country is now going back on its past commitments
‘Bangladesh a veritable laboratory to study climate change action’
Saleemul Huq is the director at the International Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD) since 2009. Huq is also a senior fellow at …
Hot and anxious
Global climate change is today a spectre which allows for no ostriches. Scientific data is piling up to indict human activity as the source of …
What happened to the Mayas?
With its awe-inspiring architecture and remarkable concepts of astronomy, the Maya was undoubtedly one of the greatest civilisations of …
Scaling up private finance is crucial to bridge funding gap for climate change projects
India’s climate pledges need a staggering $10 trillion financial investment, about three times the country’s GDP
Climate change: If warming approaches 2°C, a trickle of extinctions will become a flood
If all national plans to cut emissions are fulfilled, world would still be on track for 2.5-2.9°C of global warming by end of century
Loss, decay and bleaching: Why sponges may be the ‘canary in the coal mine’ for impacts of marine heatwaves
Marine sponges were earlier thought to be more resilient to ocean warming
Atlas of human suffering: IPCC report stresses on interconnections among climate, biodiversity, well-being
It warns of irreversible damages but also offers solutions
Global warming is real and 2020 is among 3 warmest year ever
Decade 2011-2020 set to be the warmest decade ever recorded
Focus on climate change: Food majors to US government
Sustainable Food Policy Alliance pushes for carbon pricing system for industries