Yes, Arctic's freakishly warm winter is due to humans' climate influence

The end of 2016 has brought balmy Arctic temperatures and record low ice extent for the time of year

CDM begins to roll

Global warming doesn't sound quite right when half of India is reeling under a cold wave. We apologise. But the World Meteorological Organisation …

Global warming won’t reduce winter deaths, says study

People don’t die from the cold but from complications related to respiratory diseases, say researchers

Starved out

The Southern Ocean is losing its oxygen due to global warming

Adding fuel to the fire

Respiratory illnesses may increase with global warming

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Why the US is shy

European governments are looking forward to cut their greenhouse gas emissions. Although the US wants to follow suit, it has some apprehensions

The climate for a change

Are the nations of the world serious in their much-touted efforts to control greenhouse gas emissions? VINAYAK RAO examines the motives, moods …

Industrial Revolution kick-started global warming much earlier than we realised

The tropical oceans and the Arctic were the first regions to begin warming, in the 1830s

Need a revolution to save the Earth from climate change: Pope

The Vatican head warns that the planet is beginning to look like an immense pile of filth

Simply put: Frog and the pan

World’s largest ice shelf melting rapidly due to solar heating of ocean surface

If this situation continues, sea levels would rise up to 60 metres by 2050 and the ocean would engulf coastal cities across the globe

Cyclone Idai: Rich countries are to blame for disasters like this – here’s how they can make amends

It is not only the intensity of environmental disasters that makes them devastating – poverty also has a huge bearing on how things play out

Oceans are warming at a faster rate than predicted

Oceans absorb 90% of the warming caused by human carbon emissions. A new analysis by University of California, Berkeley, suggests that oceans are …

What is global warming doing to ocean floors?

A new study done by researchers at Montreal-based Mcgill University has found that acidification is also rapidly dissolving the ocean floor.

Social cost of CO2 emission

India’s country-level social cost of carbon emission was estimated to be the highest at $86 per tonne of CO2. It means the Indian economy …

Drawdown

For the first time ever, an international coalition of leading researchers, scientists and policymakers has come together to offer a set of …

The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World

In a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. It can no longer be separated from society. 

Climate change and small islands

Inhabited by nearly 4.5 million people, even after 70 years of Independence Sundarbans is without proper roads and surface transport, drinking …

Sunita Narain in conversation with Amitav Ghosh

In his new book, novelist Amitav Ghosh examines our inability-at the level of literature, history and politics-to grasp the scale and violence of …

Freak Weather and Climate Change 2015: In Conversation with Shreeshan Venkatesh

The year 2015 will be remembered for 'freak weather' events all around the world. Are such events here to stay? A discussion with Science …

International Mountain Day: Highland people to face vagaries of weather, food insecurity

Released on the occasion of Mountain Day, two reports highlight climate threats to high altitude areas

We need to convince the world about 1.5 degrees when there is still a lot of quibbling about 2

J.R. Nereus O Acosta Secretary Office of the Presidential Adiviser for Environmental Protection, Philippine on the new momentum at COP21 to …

Impact of ocean warming on monsoon

Roxy Mathew Koll from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune talks about the effects of ocean warming on the Indian Monsoons.

'India is likely to experience strong relative impacts of climate change'

Overexploitation of groundwater reservoirs and dependence of surface water reservoirs on monsoon rainfall may lead to decreasing freshwater …