Eight European, African families sue EU seeking climate justice

These ‘climate victims’, who live near the coast or in the mountains, are witnesses to melting glaciers and affected by permafrost melting

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

Not merely a numbers game

Although the recently held world population summit emphasised population control in the developing countries as the main block in the path to …

Manmohan's bag of magical budgeting tricks

The finance minister's targets for restructuring -- lower fiscal deficit, stronger economic recovery and higher exports -- form the core of his …

One down

South Korea expresses its intent to reduce greenhouse gases "voluntarily", becomes the developed nations' showpiece to be presented at the COP-4 …

Global Conservator

The US is taking its role as the protector of sea turtles worldwide too seriously, ignoring some important factors

Wait and watch

The us government is in transition. But why should the rest of the world suffer?

Safe or smug?

The awareness of the looming threat of bioweapons has evoked a serious response from all over the world, except India

7th GEF Assembly: Global Biodiversity Framework Fund ratified

First projects under the new Fund likely to roll out ahead of CBD’s CoP16 

Melting into oblivion

With rising atmospheric temperatures, glaciers worldwide are rapidly melting. This is a disaster in the making that is yet to be acknowledged

Locust attack: How swarms pose a threat to Indian farmers

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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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 …

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

COP28 Diary (December 9): Baku to host COP29; Africa wants robust GGA

The Netherlands heads a joint ministerial statement on phasing out fossil fuel subsidies; massive global build-out of liquified natural gas …

World may pass 1.5°C warming threshold in less than a decade

Carbon dioxide emissions expected to continue to rise in 2022

Taking science to the market

Concrete worries

Cement kilns are the third largest contributors of carbon dioxide

Catch constraints

Double trouble

Steering out of gas

A global oil crisis is just a decade away, warn geologists

Biodiversity under threat

Shrinking cover

Forests are disappearing at an alarming rate the world-over, says a recent study