Environment Day Special

Carbon dioxide concentration at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii

Climate Talkies

US, equity and the elephants in the room

The issue of sharing the common atmospheric space has been at the core of discussions—the elephant in the room that we want to forget. It …

Inheritance of loss

Economic losses due to extreme weather events reach record high while nations spar over liability

Climate change and malaria

Though there is no evidence showing inter-annual variation in malaria transmission intensities and climatic determinants in the Northeast because …

Chikungunya

At the North Pole

What Durban did not discuss

IPRs are blocking access to mitigation and adaptation technologies. India offers a way out

Climate change impacts: the message for investors

Estimating global economic impact of climate change and the cost of GHG mitigation is difficult, but governments and private investors would have …

Indian scientists return with rare plant samples from Arctic

Climate Change Negotiation: Reporting a non event

Race to kill kyoto protocol

As Copenhagen nears, Obamas America sees new hope Yes, we can...dump climate multilateralism. In Bangkok, most developed countries joined the …

Eco-socialism to fight climate change

With Lima failing to tackle critical issues on global warming, Bolivia outlines socialist project to save the planet

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 …

Evangelistic edicts

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 …

The haze is political

US scientists upto mischief on the eve of climate change talks?

Enter green bond

Market for green bonds picks up; experts urge caution

Pressure point

At the climate change conference in Poznan, Poland, the world could get cooked, for good A curtain raiser on the climate negotiations in …

Creative carbon accounting

The Kyoto protocol, agreed in December 1997, was the first step to curtail emissions of the industrialised world. It is now being used to set up …

Heavy Weather

Common science

A website helps people observe and understand nature while gathering scientific data

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URGENT CALL

Pollution killed the radio star

Signs of climate change can also come through mute radios