Climate lore

Nemo finds its predator

Rising carbon emissions muddle smelling ability of small fish

Investors denounce ExxonMobil suit against climate activist-shareholders as an attack on their rights

Shareholder-activists at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility urged Exxon’s board to convince the company’s management …

How much did the Interim Budget push for India’s Climate Action?

The inter-sectoral and widely impacting stresses of climate change need balanced allocations and efforts for mitigation, adaptation and disaster …

Diversifying economy, focusing on climate resilience: Congo can reduce rural poverty by 40%, says World Bank

A $245 million investment in climate-smart agriculture can increase crop yields by 50% and cut emissions by 12 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent

Loss and damage: Who is responsible when climate change harms world’s poorest countries?

Countries in Africa have some of the lowest national greenhouse gas emissions, and yet the continent is home to many of the world’s …

Climate models, ground assessments return differing readings of aerosol concentration: Study

Investigating the causes behind the differences necessary for more accurate results, say experts

Zambia investing in agriculture, energy to circumvent climate change impacts

The Zambian government has selected two projects— agriculture and electricity generation development—for receiving financial boost …

Eight European, African families sue EU seeking climate justice

These ‘climate victims’, who live near the coast or in the mountains, are witnesses to melting glaciers and affected by permafrost melting

Human-induced climate change likely to increase average temperatures in Uganda by up to 1.5 ºC in 20 years

Lominda Afedraru visits farmers in various parts of Uganda and assesses how the government is mitigating climate change impacts

Africa: The least responsible, but most vulnerable to climate change

More than 2,000 natural disasters have hit Africa since 1970 affecting 500 million people and killing 0.9 million

Parties differ on features of nationally determined contributions under Paris deal

While some Parties are emphasisng the need to focus on existing features of NDCs, others are calling for new features

New normal: series of intense, widespread storms in less than a week; 19 states brace for more

Unusually high temperature has aided such intense storms across the country, indicating more turbulent days ahead

$306 billion—total cost of climate disasters in US in 2017

A hyperactive hurricane season and deadly wildfire events are responsible for this record-breaking economic loss

UN plans to double farmers’ income in Africa in three years

Combating climate shocks and food insecurity with the help of climate-smart agriculture has been identified as a priority

Thank you for not driving: Climate change requires anti-smoking tactics

What if we treated climate change as a health problem rather than an environmental one? There are lessons to be learned from the successful …

Push for gender equality at COP23, Gender Action Plan adopted

The plan pushes for gender-responsive climate policy and action, and for equal representation for women at the global climate meet 

Keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees: really hard, but not impossible

It's still possible to hit the more ambitious of the two Paris global warming goals, according to a new estimate of global carbon budget

Plucking out problems

Tea estates in Darjeeling are embracing innovative techniques to combat the impacts of climate change

Cities rally around the Paris deal, a reminder that global problems can have local solutions

International problems and local policies are integrally interwoven, whether the nationalists in Washington like it or not

What is a pre-industrial climate and why does it matter?

Different definitions of pre-industrial and natural climate make it harder to synthesise the results from individual studies

Global warming and El Nino caused record temperature in Southeast Asia

While El Nino triggered the heat, global warming pushed the temperatures to a record-breaking level in 2016, finds study

Geomorphologist Robert James Wasson discusses flood risk reduction in India

In this video, Robert James Wasson from National University of Singapore points out that India is the second most flood-prone country in the …

Coal comfort: Pacific islands on collision course with Australia over emissions

As Australia looks to expand the coal industry at home, it's also ramping up regional diplomacy aimed at avoiding condemnation by those at the …

Impact of climate change on wildlife far greater than we thought: study

47 per cent of mammals and 23 per cent of birds on the IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species have been negatively affected by climate …