Climate crisis: Madagascar drought worsens
Women, children have to walk for hours to get to food distribution points; families living on raw red cactus fruits, wild leaves and locusts&…
Japan has rolled out a bevy of projects to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Are they enough?
Achieving the net-zero emissions target would require a major push to build clean energy infrastructure
A third of global greenhouse gas emissions from food production: Study
The study draws from a new database that provides emission estimates from food production from 1990 to 2015
Lack of finance data hampers climate goals in South Africa: Report
South Africa is the world’s 14th largest emitter of carbon dioxide. Its national climate change response policy calls for inclusion of …
Chamoli glacier burst: It is time to learn from our mistakes
The cumulative effect of hydropower projects has turned out to be more environmentally damaging than sustainable, given the current policy of the …
New NASA model to help assess change in carbon concentrations from forests
Tropical forests absorbed more carbon than other forest types, released more carbon into atmosphere due to deforestation, degradation, the study …
The other side of climate friendly foods
Efforts to change diets and reduce global warming has pitfalls
US elections: Biden will surely be better than Trump; will that be enough?
The new US presidency needs to urgently enact a deep and binding full decarbonisation target by 2040 for all sectors
Looking back: How did climate change alter the world this year?
2020 is on course to become the third-warmest year on record; the development put in motion several catastrophic events
This summer was the hottest on record for the northern hemisphere, says NOAA
Planet Earth suffers third-hottest three-month season and second-warmest August, according to US’ weather agency
A new climate law in the Balearic Islands will protect the wellbeing of present and future generations — if such thing can be defined
Mediterranean is extremely climate vulnerable, with temperatures rising 20% faster than the global average
Three in four children in South Asia exposed to extreme high temperatures: UNICEF
Recent episodes of extreme weather events raise further concerns about a future where children are expected to face more frequent and severe heatwaves
Drying trends recorded in more than 30 Indian lakes: Study
In about 100 large lakes, climate change and human water consumption were identified as the main drivers of water losses and a decline in lake volume
Most Asia-Pacific countries ill-prepared for natural disasters: ESCAP
Over the past 60 years, temperatures in the region have increased faster than the global mean
Why so few people are worried about Thwaites
The worry about Thwaites is not just the estimated rise in sea-level but an unknown and sometimes incomprehensible cascade that its melting can …
Climate Crisis: ‘Massive investment in CCS is a cover for the expansion of the fossil fuel industry’
Lili Fuhr, deputy director of Center for International Environmental Law, on investments in CCS & what to expect from COP28
Warming beyond borders: Amazon deforestation heats up Tibet, says new study
There are no borders in the fight against climate change, cooperation is the key, says study published in Nature
New health threat? Pathogens frozen in permafrost resurface as Earth heats up
In the unlikely scenario where a virus is able to infect mammals and humans, it could be disastrous, say experts
Innovative finance mechanisms can scale up clean cooking
Developing countries should integrate clean cooking into their Nationally Determined Contributions to address climate change
Whopping $1.6 tn investment can be created for green cooling solutions in India by 2040: World Bank
Around 34 million people in the country might lose their jobs because of heat stress and subsequent decline in productivity
IMD predicts low-pressure area over south Andaman Sea
If the low-pressure area intensifies into a cyclone, this would be the third cyclone of 2022
Bitcoin mining unsustainable; climate damages comparable to beef, natural gas, crude oil: Study
In 2021, the total global damages of all coins mined exceed $3.7 billion
Pakistan floods: What role did climate change play?
Officials from the Pakistan Meteorological Department blamed climate change
Greenhouse gas, sea levels reached record highs in 2021: NOAA Report
The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere was 414.7 parts per million in 2021, which is 2.3 parts higher than in 2020, the report said
UN lays down guidelines to protect children displaced by climate change
Nearly 10 million children were displaced due to weather-related shocks in 2020 alone, according to UN reports