Carbon suckers

Mangroves store four times more carbon than other forests

World to breach 1.5°C threshold by 2027-2042: Study

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had estimated global warming threshold will cross between 2020 and 2052 

Book Digest: Following climate crisis in 10 minutes, corporate world’s fight against COVID-19 and more

Human security issues stemming from the pandemic to politics of housing, DTE tracks new, contemporary books on environment and development from …

Human-made climate change behind rising 2019 temperatures: WMO

Absence of El Niño and yet an extension in the spate of rising temperatures points towards it, says the UN weather agency

Is the global warming ‘hiatus’ over?

There are many ongoing signs that the planet is heating up, even “on fire.”

What went wrong in 1995

Passing the carbon buck

Climate crisis intensifies: Coastal areas may become unliveable by 2100, flags report

Scientists say under RCP 8.5 scenario, a temperature increase of about 4.3 degrees Celsius by 2100 relative to pre-industrial temperature may happen

Must assess ethical, social and cultural risks of climate engineering along with climate action: UNESCO report

Urges countries in a geographic region to make agreements to avoid risks of unequal spatial distribution of effects

A third of US reels under drought

Likely to experience dry spell till at least October 

Coastal flooding set to rise 50% over 80 yrs: Study

It could threaten assets worth 20% of global GDP, amounting to $14.2 trillion

Flow fact

Receding Himalayan glaciers would not affect river flow

A P Mitra practical professor

Indian scientists return with rare plant samples from Arctic

Noah's ark redux

US government considers controversial solar geoengineering to counter global warming: Report

Report outlined research options for solar radiation management that may be able to reflect sunlight to space — but White House says it&…

In deep water: Emissions can add 15 inches to 2100 sea level rise, study finds

Greenland and Antarctica’s ice sheets could together contribute to this 38-cm rise — beyond the amount that has been projected …

Calming influence

Study says Pacific Ocean has kept global warming in check

Teak rings uncover rainfall data

Trees are not very effective carbon sinks

India now has a climate programme

ISRO will help build monitoring and research capabilities

Climate communication: Why it is so important in today’s world

Climate communication can demystify climate change and create awareness in a language that can be understood, empathised with and acted upon

US Elections 2020: What is at stake for climate change tomorrow?

A win for Biden is the best-case scenario currently for the climate movement; it is the lesser of two evils

Land use change major cause behind biodiversity loss, finds WWF report

Asia Pacific region lost 45% of its vertebrate population in four-and-half decades, while the global average was 68%

Climate change may be driving changes in India's northeast monsoon

In recent years, the shifting patterns of the southwest monsoon and its implications have been spoken about extensively, but the northeast …