Heat before the cold

Scrutinising disasters

FLOOD STUDIES IN INDIA Kale, Vishwas S . Geological Society of India (Memoir; 41) . Bangalore . 1998 . 256 pp

In Short

Local lessons

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

Russia reneging on Kyoto?

The earth is hotter than it has been in the past 2000 years and the largest ice shelf in the Artic has broken into two after having existed for …

Eco-socialism to fight climate change

With Lima failing to tackle critical issues on global warming, Bolivia outlines socialist project to save the planet

Greenland crisis

Study shows glaciers in Greenland are thinning

Terminal retreat

Four glaciers of the Baspa basin may dry up due to global warming

Pollution at high levels

Searing spell

Current heat wave is not just an aberration, feel experts

Parbati glacier shrinks

May affect the flow of Beas river

Look who's talking!

The president of the world's most polluting country blames India for global warming

Meltdown!

First evidence of Antarctic melting emerges

Meltdown

Glacial melt's carbon connection

Climate change affects low-lying areas, puts poor at risk

Most Mount Everest glaciers will disappear with climate change, warns study

Glacial retreat in the Himalayas will lead to the formation of lakes, which may pose a risk to communities living downstream

Storehouse of water

HIMALAYAN GLACIERS: HYDROLOGY AND HYDROCHEMISTRY·Syed Iqbal Hasnain·Allied Publishers Limited·New Delhi·India· …

The politics of empty words

Warm cold relationship

Earth may have a 1,500-year temperature cycle that is governed by minor changes in the sunlight

Latest IPCC report clinches evidence of human-induced climate change

In short

Remote control

Reduced Himalayan snow cover affects marine life in the Arabian Sea

Geopolitics

By another name?

More like a ritual

So much for scope and research scale