Canada pulls out of Kyoto Protocol

Loses moral position to call on developing countries to limit emissions

Under the weather

Scientists say a change in temperature could play a role in spreading childhood diarrhoea

MAIght of OECD

A no-holds-barred treaty on investments would hand over the world on a platter to MNCs

In hot water

GHGs raise ocean temperatures

Ostrich Singh

India's response to Bush is very disappointing

The climate-forest continuum

COP-9 makes slow progress

The digital is political

Technologies are not just agents of politics, there is politics in their design

In Brief

Least developed countries set expectations for COP28 with Dakar Declaration

LDCs account for 1% of GHG emissions but are at forefront of the climate crisis, say ministers

El Nino to cause global losses worth $84 trillion by 2099, India may be more vulnerable than estimated

Impacts of El Nino will be more pronounced in poor countries in the tropics like India

Global Eco Watch: Drying Sea of Galilee swells after years of drought

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

COVID-19: Global trade to decline 27% in Q2, warns UNCTAD

Global trade value slumped 3% in first quarter of 2020, according to the report

Methane time bomb ticks under melting Arctic ice

Global warming releasing large amounts of dangerous greenhouse gas from permafrost

Rio: not plus or minus, just 20

Old is gold

Mature forests trap more carbon dioxide than previously estimated

Negotiating the future

The upcoming climate negotiations at The Hague may turn out to be the most crucial till now

Sunk again

Another report lambastes the theory of land carbon-sinks

Latest IPCC report clinches evidence of human-induced climate change

Bali: the mother of all no-deals

More floods, no winter

Atlantic cooling may be temporary respite

More than 200 scientists from 19 countries want to tell us the Southern Ocean is in trouble

Annual extent of winter sea ice has stopped increasing and now we have had two years of record lows

Tropics could lose important commercial fish by 2050

Global warming might force fish species to move to cooler waters at the poles

Ace swimmer Lewis Pugh swims seven seas to raise awareness

The initiative is to campaign for dedicated Marine Protected Areas across the world