A quick guide to climate change jargon: What experts mean by mitigation, carbon neutral and 6 other key terms
Here’s a guide that may help you to follow the news about climate change ahead of CoP26 starting October 31
Commitment phobia: World still not ready to do enough to cut GHG emissions
New national climate pledges combined with other mitigation measures put the world on track for a global temperature rise of 2.7°C by the end …
Planning to install rooftop solar panels? How about some grass beneath it
Integrating green roofs and solar PV systems can enhance their functions and effectiveness through cooling and shading effects
NASA’s new tool makes it possible to see future sea level rise
The tool makes it possible to access details based on projections of IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report released August 9
Towards circular economy: What to do with legacy waste in India
Bioremediation to treat legacy waste and reclaim old dumpsites may not always work; the composition of the waste also matters
Indian research can help cut nitrogen fertiliser waste
Indian scientists manage to identify phenotypes, visibly identifiable features that determine the efficiency with which cultivars use nitrogen
In deep water: Emissions can add 15 inches to 2100 sea level rise, study finds
Greenland and Antarctica’s ice sheets could together contribute to this 38-cm rise — beyond the amount that has been projected …
Indian CNG buses better than diesel buses; almost conform to Euro VI norms
Attempts are being made to misrepresent CNG bus emissions as more dangerous than diesel bus emissions, says Centre for Science and Environment
Power hat trick
Tri-generation systems use one fuel for simultaneous heating, cooling and power generation
Option in Global Stocktake draft opens possibility of including India, China in list of historical emitters of greenhouse gases
Finance and coal phase out are other red lines in text for several developing countries, say experts
Greenhouse gas levels hit record high in 2022: WMO
Carbon dioxide levels reached 50% higher than pre-industrial levels
Proposal to airlift Bhopal waste to Germany in jeopardy
GIZ says its reputation at stake after details of proposal were leaked in German media
CBI can seek Anderson’s extradition
Delhi court gives permission. But is CBI ready?
In Short
Davos 2023: UN chief urges credible net-zero pledges; slams ‘Big Oil’ firms
Guterres compared fossil fuel sector to the cigarette industry in the 1970s, where businesses were aware of the harmful health impact
Record greenhouse gas emissions: Time running out, warns UN
Urgent need to slash carbon dioxide emissions, says World Meteorological Organization
Carbon budget: Unfair share has been the way of the world
Till 1989, the original seven emitters appropriated 77% the world's carbon space. Between 1990 and 2019, China, along with the original seven, …
Why geoengineering is still a dangerous, techno-utopian dream
Experts have increasingly warned against manipulating Earth’s natural systems
Guar mine
Farmers in Rajasthan make big bucks as shale gas rush boosts demand for little-known cluster bean
Poison present
Greenpeace and Bhopal disaster survivors transported toxic waste from the Bhopal disaster site to Dow Chemical Co's largest European operation, …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 28, 2020)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
China's per capita carbon emissions surpass EU's
India has one of four highest CO2 emissions in the world, says report
Nagpur village moves court against Bhopal's toxic waste incineration
Say it would endanger people’s their lives and environment
Russia gambles on gas prices
What is the status of dumpsite remediation across India
Total of 13 states and three UTs are lagging behind the target