Ghost of climate change haunts Rio

Congestion in the skies is costing India dearly

Hold Up!

The stage seemed set for another climate meeting to serve the economic interests of the US better than the threat of global warming

Climate change conference- World leaders fail to act again

The 12th Conference of Parties to the UN climate convention saw the setting up of an adaptation fund to help poor countries. Ritu Gupta …

Too costly to grow

High input cost and erratic weather take toll

Fig leaf for the business world

That is what the Montreal Protocol, meant to do away with ozone depleting substances, has become. India's phase out programme under the protocol …

Russia lingers

Report on Kyoto Protocol delayed

Can amphibians tackle climate change?

Blame bankers, not oil, for climate impasse

Rising sea levels and tidal erosion eating up Sunderbans

Rising sea levels are real. A trip to the Sunderbans, in the Bay of Bengal, shows how devastating it can be in tandem with insidious tidal erosion.…

Web unravels

Spiders can tell us about the health of the environment

Prickly, delicious

Stars dont foretell any more

Sahyadris have been documenting the changing climate for 40 years

In the dark

Climate change will make energy a vulnerable sector and hit power generation

Future shock

As the world continues to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the global temperatures could rise by 3°C by mid-century, says a soon-to-…

Rise of Asia: Will GDP do the talking?

The trend is now backed by numbers, as revealed by the European Report on Development

Kyoto in trouble

Russia may not ratify it. And even if it does, it's not going to do so anytime soon. That was the message, loud and clear, from the Russian …

Sayonara to nuclear

Even if Japan aims to exit nuclear power by 2040, its path remains treacherous

Rise of livestock

Agriculture sector undergoes a historic change as livestock surpasses the economy of food grain

What it takes to clean a river

It is the tale of two European rivers. The Rhine and the Danube. No river system in the world has a density of industrial agglomerations …

Local lessons

Taking climate change negotiations out of international discussion boards to the villages

Battling climate change

Technologies exist to arrest global warming. But the political will to implement them is missing

New Delhi to Milan

Will this year's climate change conference be different?

Is tackling climate change economically viable?

Floods cause havoc in drought-prone Barmer, Rajasthan