No food talk
Rich and poor leaders give the World Food Summit a miss. They don't care for the hungry.
The obvious choice
Right picture
Ravaged future
Staking a claim
Yes to asbestos
Computer games simulate society
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Booms are not forever
How do Indian states perform as far as hunger eradication is concerned
Using Global Hunger Index methodology to rank India’s states and Union Territories puts Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh at the bottom, …
Working Upwards
CREATING SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENTS FOR HEALTH· B J A Haglund, B Petersson, D Finer and P Tillgren· World Health Organization …
A price on the living
Environmentalists allege that the European Parliament has sold out to multinational firms by allowing patents on lifeforms
Oil in a day's work
THE NEW GEOPOLITICS OF ENERGY·John V Mitchell, Peter Beck and Michael Grubb· Energy and Environment Programme, The Royal Institute …
Rare Antarctica warming to trigger heatwaves, fires in Australia
The sudden stratospheric warming in South Pole has spiked temperatures by more than 40 degrees
Every month in 2019 among 4 warmest such month: Report
July 2019 was recorded as the warmest month globally and has re-written climate history, with dozens of new temperature records at local, …
The wake up call
It’s time we understood that the IPCC's report could be an underestimate of the kind of dangers that await a warmed world and stopped …
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
Methane emissions from fossil fuels much higher than current estimates
Methane emissions from fossil fuel and natural geological seepage are 60 to 110 per cent greater than current estimates, says a study published …
Masterly exploration of the state of Earth
Earth in the Balance Al Gore Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd, London Price: £14.95
Most disease maps unreliable
Disease maps help capture distribution of pathogens and their transmission intensity. An international team of researchers has reviewed 355 of …
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 …
Puppets on purse strings
At the International Conference on Finance for Development (ffd) held last month in Monterrey, Mexico, rich countries once again rejected new, …
Market and mitigation dominated G20 climate actions — not a good signal leading to COP28, claim experts
Woefully inadequate in response to Global Stocktake Report and unlikely to keep temperature rise within 1.5°C
COP28 Diary (December 10, 2023): New GGA draft weaker than previous text, countries talk about finance gaps at Majlis
Parties still not on same page about responsibilities in GST text; final texts on carbon market expected December 11