Stark facts: Forest destruction

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another”- M K …

Rain Shocked

Rising trend of short but intense spells of rainfall is making usable water scarce in India

US plays dirty on tar sands

The EU appears to have backed off on important climate change policy because of pressure from US-backed Big Oil

Climate of irrationality

Developed and developing countries are divided over regulating super greenhouse gases under Montreal Protocol

Durban diary: a visual journal

Time-out

The 17th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change met in Durban in December 2011. Negotiations were heated and …

Future shock

As the world continues to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the global temperatures could rise by 3°C by mid-century, says a soon-to-…

Environment Day special: ACmageddon

Who's afraid of 2C?

Diplomacy deficit

India wavers on including hydrofluorocarbons in Montreal Protocol meet agenda

Some nets and sunshine

Fishers in a Tamil Nadu village save cost and improve catch with solar panel-fitted boats

Doha: inaction in the face of urgency

The climate and trade tango

Of stoves, kilns and a fine distinction between emissions

In the second week of March, activists, academics, policy-makers and experts in various fields came together in Delhi to throw light on the …

Equity: the next frontier in climate talks

Not rebuilding for tomorrow

Cop-out

Hopes were pinned on the latest UN climate summit at Lima. It was supposed to prepare the ground for a new climate deal that will replace the …

Plants have proteins

A case for producing less meat

Equity for all

Smokestacks lightening?

Emissions are bound to increase. The power sector improves, but others will spew more, especially iron and steel

Greenwash

Cattle burps

Methane emissions from Indian livestock lower than estimated

According to report

Carbon trading in ERUs

World Bank energizes South Africa

US $3.75 billion to fund power plants