World not on track to meet long-term climate targets, shows largest-ever UN assessment

Climate impacts “eroding past human development gains” & lack of adaptation action will make it difficult to make such gains in future

Invasive alien species in focus at 10th plenary of IPBES

Report on invasive species & their control to be approved at the plenary was developed over four years by 86 leading experts from 49 countries

India should receive $57 trillion in compensation from Global North for climate damages: Study 

US should provide a cumulative compensation of $80 trillion, the European Union and the United Kingdom owe $46 trillion & remaining …

What can we expect from the final UN climate report? And what is the IPCC anyway?

It will explain how greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet, then delve into the consequences

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 …

Global Eco Watch: Greenland’s ice sheet has melted to ‘point of no return’

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology  

By 2050, climate change may threaten human existence

Report flags that scientific predictions till now have underestimated the severity of the crisis, and says the world is on path to 3 degree …

Guardians for the future

World Future Council calls for an ombudsperson to secure the environment for future generations

Dispensing with dear drugs

New US law to clear the decks for generic drugs (Read full article)

Thorny issue resurfaces

At its recently concluded third session in Geneva, Switzerland, the United Nations Forum on Forests (unff) took a step towards the creation of a …

The last frontier

The Earth's overexploited seas are in danger of turning into the Last Frontier. In giant, demonic trawls, the World's oceans are being …

Win against waste colonialism: US group pledges restorative action after taking back ‘harmful’ report

A 2015 report by US-based Ocean Conservancy blamed 5 Asian countries for plastic waste

Just talk, no promises at Asia-Europe meet

Record greenhouse gas emissions: Time running out, warns UN

Urgent need to slash carbon dioxide emissions, says World Meteorological Organization

COP28 Diary (December 11, 2023): New text on Global Goal on Adaptation introduced with concerning changes

No consensus among Parties over negotiating text on global carbon market

Greenhouse gas levels hit record high in 2022: WMO

Carbon dioxide levels reached 50% higher than pre-industrial levels

At a standstill

Climate change new opportunity to renew old orders

Paris finance meet: Momentum builds for polluter taxes to fund green transition

Panellists discuss shipping and airline levies, financial transaction taxes and fossil fuel taxes at Pact Summit

A submarine robot gives close up of Doomsday glacier, finds more trouble beneath it

It is one of the glaciers on the continent that exhibits the quickest and most unstable changes

Global South water-sensitive cities: Framing the discourse

Simply copy-pasting the concepts from the Global North will lead to sub-optimal solutions 

Botswana elephants episode: There’s a colonial underpinning to conservation

Conservation should indeed be a global priority. But understanding of the complexity and colonial roots of this problem and the shocking double …

Forests changing more rapidly than expected

Shifts in species composition associated with environmental change and increased biomass have been identified

Germs of terror

As terrorists arm themselves with biological weapons, India wakes up to find how ill equipped it is to face this deadly reality