World has already breached carbon emission threshold

Even as nations commit to reduce carbon emissions, global carbon dioxide levels have gone past the safe limit of 350 parts per million and …

Kolkata's smog is a challenge of complex chemistry and action

The city needs to build up on its strengths to tackle smog episodes

A plateau? Global CO2 emissions rose less than initially feared in 2022, says IEA

Clean energy growth offset much of the impact of greater coal and oil use, according to the IEA analysis  

EU cannot use ‘nature-based solutions’ to make up for lack of emissions cuts

Over-estimating the potential of such solutions is bad for biodiversity and the climate

‘The Earth is revealing the carbon cycle to modern science’

Balz S Kamber speaks to Down To Earth about the effect of anthropogenic emissions on the global carbon cycle

The dominant survives

Increasing nitrogen levels will pit plants against each other

Global emissions can decline 10% this decade if refineries clean up their act: Report

CO2 emissions from oil refineries were 1.3 Gt in 2018 and could reach up to 16.5 Gt from 2020 to 2030, if low carbon measures are not adopted

Why e-rickshaws have emerged a winner in transition to electric mobility race

E-rickshaws have proliferated because most of them remain unregistered; there is a need to regulate their operations 

What you need to know about Global Energy Review 2021

How has energy demand and CO2 Emissions changed this year  

Getting warmer

Compressed to cool

On the right track

Bacteria to battle waste on trains

LNG, but not for rich world

Industrial countries need deep decarbonisation; they can’t re-invest in fossil fuels and call it clean & green

Why Shell being asked to cut emissions is a big move on Big Oil

Fossil fuel companies are notorious for greenwashing their intentions and this legal challenge can set a precedent for other courts

Global energy transition too slow, needs a ‘low emissions revolution’: IEA

Current climate pledges will raise temperatures by 2.1 degrees above pre-industrial levels and more action is needed in the energy sector, says …

Rising CO2 emissions may affect labour productivity in developing countries: Study

Agriculture, mining and quarrying, manufacturing and construction — sectors which account for 73 per cent of output in poor countries' are …

When the pot calls the kettle black

Involuntarism

Last year saw the biggest drop in CO2 emissions; here’s why that’s not enough

Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to grow 4.8% as the economy rebounds after COVID-19 pandemic: Global Energy Review 2021 

CoP26: Carbon budget report puts Net Zero euphoria in place at Glasgow

Net rise of emission for all major countries in 2021

Indian Railways likely to become world’s first ‘net-zero’ carbon emitter by 2030

The Indian Railways transports 24 million passengers every day across the subcontinent on 13,000 trains covering approximately 67,956 km; it’…

Less than 8% of India’s coal power plants can control SO2 emissions, a new analysis finds

The thermal sector holds a predominant position within India’s overall installed capacity

Share of non-CO2 pollutants contributing to global warming almost as much as carbon dioxide: Study

World needs to target non-CO2 pollutants and CO2 pollutants to achieve climate targets, it added  

Highest carbon concentration in atmosphere in 3 million years: WMO

The new WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin says CO2 concentration in atmosphere has breached all recent records

Simply put: Global demand of fossil fuels up by 78%