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A work in progress

Ignorance and arrogance make for good floods

Insect attacks affected 142 mn ha forest between 2003 and 2012: Report

The State of the World’s Forests report warned climate change will exacerbate wildfires and pest attacks in the future

One step forward, two steps back

Countries want to do little to keep global average temperature rise to below 2oC. The Warsaw climate talks have exposed this. A report by Uthra …

Of stoves, kilns and a fine distinction between emissions

In the second week of March, activists, academics, policy-makers and experts in various fields came together in Delhi to throw light on the …

Empty Promises

The high-level conference at Rome was called to find a way out of the global food crisis. A series of consultations with experts preceded this …

Algae bloom worsens drought

Climate change is now a human rights issue

Antarctic ice shelf collapses

Warm weather favours locusts

A monsoon warning

World gets a yellow card

The Warsaw climate talks serve a grim warning to the world that inaction will cost, writes Chandra Bhushan as he leaves Warsaw just before the …

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Changing climate Jharsuguda to seattle

Antarctica shrinking much faster than thought

Power games at UN climate talks

Climate talks unfolded amid high drama. Developing countries protested inaction by developed countries, civil society organisations walked out, …

The hockey-stick curve

The problem of and solutions to climate change. The imperatives of transition on the eve of the Bali meet

In the dark

Climate change will make energy a vulnerable sector and hit power generation

Climate studies, the Indian way

At climate meet researchers present studies on subjects unique to Indian context

Highest in 650,000 years

Southern China faces the worst drought

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