Heat waves likely to last ‘25 times longer’ in India by another 2-4 decades, says climate report
The heatwaves will last over five times longer if global temperature rise is constrained to about 2°C, says report launched ahead …
5 days to CoP26: NDCs insufficient, climate finance unmet till 2023
Signals on key issues such as enhanced climate ambition and climate finance point to poor progress
Greta seeks honesty from world leaders at CoP 26
This story originally appeared in Reuters and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global media collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate …
Climate crisis: Deforestation in southeast Asia mountains on the rise
Forests are being increasingly cut down on steeper slopes, which have a high forest carbon density relative to the lowlands
COP24: Consensus on global emission reduction key to carbon markets’ success
All nations must make efficient use of the few days left of the Katowice conference since till now they have been struggling to come to a …
COP24: Will Katowice deliver ambitious outcomes?
As the Conference of Parties starts at Poland’s Katowice, scientific findings must guide negotiations. It is very important that the …
Building norms bent for better ease of doing business rankings
The latest notification has eased green norms for builders to facilitate urban development
EU climate advisory board recommends reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 90-95% by 2040 from 1990 levels
Of 63 scenarios compatible with the target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, 27 had high feasibility concerns
High Road to Dubai COP28: Seven days later, Agenda for SB 58 still not adopted
Parties and chairs of the SBI and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice have gone back into huddles to decide on the way …
Warnings from the past: Sea levels will rise, 78 Indian cities to see floods
While more than a century-old data projects a warmer world, India still needs a proper regional data on climate vulnerability
Some extreme weather events in 2016 would never have happened without human-caused warming: studies
Extreme heat across Asia in 2016 and unusually warm waters in the Bering Sea would not have been possible without human-induced climate change
Climate change is a threat to rich and poor alike
From Miami and Puerto Rico to Barbuda and Havana, the devastation of 2017 hurricane season across Latin America and the Caribbean serves as a …
Climate change set to increase air pollution deaths by hundreds of thousands by 2100
A new study suggests climate change will cause changes to patterns of ground-level ozone and smog
Climate change could drive coastal food webs to collapse
Benefits of a boost in marine plant growth from increased carbon dioxide will be cancelled out by the increased stress to fish species
Current draft text “inequitable, weak and unambitious”, says CSE
The Delhi-based non-profit said that rich nations had been misappropriating the carbon space, leaving no chance for developing countries to …
Mass death decoded
Environmental contamination and extreme weather events are responsible for most die-offs among animals, a new study suggests
The Science and Impacts of Climate Change
Ramesh Sharma, campaign coordinator at Ekta Parisha, discusses the impacts of climate change on agriculture in the Baigachak community of …
‘50 years of deception’: California sues five Big Oil companies for lying about climate change
Lawsuit against oil and gas companies for “creating, contributing and assisting in the creation of state-wide climate change-related harms …
Everything you need to know about COP27
The 27th international conference is synonymous with climate change. Here is everything you need to know about it.
Paris finance meet: What is the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact about?
Discussions on how to reform Multilateral Development Banks (MDB) to better serve the needs of the Global South will be in spotlight
Setback for clean innovation, boost to fossil fuels
USA’s exit from the Paris Agreement can lead to a higher degree of global temperature rise, with widespread impacts
Paris foretold and forewarned: what to expect from COP21
The French government knows it cannot make the same blunders as the Danish government made in Copenhagen in 2009, when trust between countries&…
Global warming: world is locked into 1. 5 °C temperature rise, warns World Bank
New climate report warns of longer droughts, extreme weather, and increase in ocean acidification
NGOs to boycott climate talks
Civil society groups express unhappiness over developed countries and Poland blocking negotiations
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 …