The fumes of the aircraft

The environmental implications of the recent aviation boom

Flakes for inspiration

The hockey-stick curve

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

Understanding climate change

Did climate change begin with industrialisation? How do we identify ‘bad’ climate change?

He pricked our conscience

Charles David Keeling showed how human activity causes global warming

Transcending Kyoto

Time to move beyond the protocol's shadow

Heat is on

Frozen at gateway

The Doha outcome is all talk no action. In 2007, the Bali Action Plan had called for an urgent reduction in carbon emissions by developed …

Breaking the ice

The recent breaking away of a massive iceberg from the Antarctic peninsula has generated a heated debate on the bothers of global warming

Controlling carbon

Afforestation of degraded land in India can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Southward bound

Rio's Stepchild

The UN Convention to Combat Desertification is a non-starter. Administrative and financial matters get the better of any serious attempts to deal …

Bleak future

Climate change threatens to cause widespread ecological and economic loss in India. But policy makers and scientists give a shallow response to …

Moving climate policy forward

At CoP-9

Which issues will come to the fore?

Sea change

Photographs confirm Patagonian glaciers are melting into oblivion

Better be prepared

Climate change can have serious effects on crops

War-like climate

Warming exacerbates conflict in Africa

Copenhagen According to USA

´╗┐Unable to agree on targets and funding, world leaders settled for an interim political deal. But the Copenhagen Accord could …

Bureaucracy on the beach

Time-out

The 17th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change met in Durban in December 2011. Negotiations were heated and …

Climate Change: three sobering milestones

World leaders at UN climate summit need to heed these grim markers if global warming has to stay within 2°C limit

Horses, pigs and climate change

Amongst the Nakhi community in China's Yunan province where small farmers, who produced food from biodiverse crop cum livestock farms, have been …

Unmasking the heat

The weather machine seems to have gone into overdrive. Scientists assert that the rise in temperature is unprecedented, at least since the 15th …

Green incentives

The German government's idea of ecological tax may seem impressive, but it hasn't got too many takers. There are too many contradictions, say …