Poles witness record dip in sea ice extent, says NASA

On February 13, the combined Arctic and Antarctic sea ice numbers were at their lowest point since satellites started measuring sea ice in 1979

What’s next after monsoon's arrival in Kerala

The progress of this year’s monsoon is likely to be delayed in some parts of India

Chandra Bhushan on the draft negotiating text before highlevel segment

Chandra Bhushan Deputy Director General of Centre for Science and Environment, says that the negotiating draft produced on December 9, 2014 will …

Ananlysis of the first week of COP 21

Chandra Bhushan talks about the first week of negotiations at the Paris Climate Change Conference COP21

Lived anomaly

Delhi-based non-profit Centre for Science and Environment has just released a book that suggests how farmers in India can be enabled to cope with …

Bonn climate conference 2015

The conference ended without making any headway. Ten days of negotiations were spent in streamlining the text for the Paris agreement, …

Moon keeps Earth's tilt in check

Scientists say the Moon exerts a moderating influence on variations in the Earth's obliquity or tilt and this has a direct effect on our climate.

Climate changes alter height of Himalayan range

The average height of the Himalay has been going down over the last two million years because of climatic changes, surveys indicate.

For a better tomorrow

Unlike the first United Nations conference on climate change, the recently concluded second meet was marked by a desire to give the planet a …

Shades of equity

Negotiators from developing countries lack the strategy to put equity on the global climate change agenda. But the US has already begun to define …

'Slow, creeping catastrophe'

Former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Michael Zammit Cutajar, speaks to Anju …

The inconvenient truth

Climate change could hit India, 58 other nations’ credit ratings

Countries ranking higher on sovereign ratings likely to face more severe downgrades

Southeast Asians worried about food security, extreme weather events, shows climate survey 

ASEAN countries must stop building new coal plants, say over half the respondents 

Carbon dioxide emissions on a 35 per cent high

Glacial melt's carbon connection

Science & Technology - Briefs

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.

COP27 must be remembered as ‘Implementation COP’, says Sameh Shoukry

The developing world’s first COP since Marrakesh in 2016 must implement the ‘Paris Rulebook’  

Climate change hits food production

Global warming has resulted in 20 per cent increase in price of wheat, maize, rice and soybean

A Brazilian Proposal

Industrialised nations have introduced a Clean Development Mechanism to meet their reduction targets. In the second part of her climate change …

In 2023, for the first time ever, each day was at least 1°C warmer. Why this is worrying

Close to 50% of the days in 2023 were 1.5°C warmer than 1850-1900, compared to just over 20% in 2016

COP28: ‘We’ve given you loss & damage fund, do not ask for more’ seems to be unspoken stand of developed countries

US and Saudi Arabia termed obstructionist; developed countries have plans for fossil fuel expansion till 2050