Why I mourn Dussehra: Climate change and death of seasons

People of Odisha have given a clear verdict: from number of seasons to mating habits of birds, they say everything has changed as a result of …

Clean energy could save hundreds of billions in health costs every year

Global warming is often seen as a problem for future generations, but focusing on the immediate and substantial health benefits of clean energy …

Climate resilience

Realising that climate change actions are good investments, communities and institutions are working towards adapting to it

Island voices

Alarm bells

Explainer series: Tracking climate crisis in North East India

Some villages are parched, some are seeing unusual floods: The climate crisis is doing the unimagineable in North East India. DTE tells …

Africa and climate change: Exiled by emissions

The impacts of climate change are making the continent even more vulnerable

Stocktaking by CoP18 President, December 7, 2012

Draft texts made, remade and re-remade: No consensus in sight

12 excuses for climate inaction and how to refute them

Using moral clarity to counter defeatism around the climate crisis  

US withdrawal weakens Paris Agreement: Chandra Bhushan

Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General, Centre for Science and Environment, talks about how the US desertion has changed the nature of the …

Ten years after the crisis, what is happening to the world's bees?

Now we know much more about Colony Collapse Disorder, raising hopes that we can turn bees' fortunes around

Climate change forces Red-tailed Hawk to skip migration

According to experts, the bird has become a year-round resident, giving up embarking on a long journey southwards

Frigid is good

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Environment Day Special

Carbon dioxide concentration at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii

Kidney stones tread north US

Kids facing effects of climate change are taking their governments to court

Besides protesting, youth are also increasingly in the courts, suing governments for their failure to preserve a healthy environment for future …

WHO must play a decisive role in climate adaptation, says chief Tedros

The new director-general emphasised on health impacts of climate change as one of WHO's priorities 

India has been getting warmer continuously, consistently and rapidly

A new analysis by the Centre for Science and Environment has indicated that India is warming at a much faster rate than thought previously

Climate change can cause selenium deficiency in soil and humans

Deficiency of the micronutrient has been associated with a deadly heart ailment called Keshan disease

Species speed up adaptation to beat effects of warmer oceans

Species threatened by climate change may find ways to adapt far quicker than through changes in DNA

Climate change, tourism and the Great Barrier Reef: what we know

Adding complexity to the issue, there is debate locally as to how widespread the coral bleaching reported by scientists really is  

Market for agriculture drones to expand 7.4 times by 2022

Inexpensive sensors, cloud computing and intelligent software will drive the market ahead

Global assets worth trillions of dollars at risk due to climate change

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming to 2°C substantially reduces the value at risk

Mapping the future

Greenwash