Neither the city nor the sea will relent
As a result of climate change and uneven development, fishing communities in Chennai are caught between a seaward moving land and a landward …
Pakistan floods: What role did climate change play?
Officials from the Pakistan Meteorological Department blamed climate change
Climate change: Southeastern Africa stares at future with extreme rainfall, floods
Lack of weather data is an obstacle to quantifying the climate link in the region
Degradation, loss of coral reefs can affect 4.5 million people in southeast Asia: IPCC report
Corals occupy only 0.1% of the global sea surfaces; but more than 25% of marine biodiversity is supported by them
IPCC report warning: A 5.3°C temperature rise in Delhi by century-end under worst emission scenario
Under the bestemission scenario, Delhi may experience a 2°C rise in mean temperature by 21st century-end to pre-industrial period
Power demand is back and it is not all green
Coal-fired power plants continue to play a major role in global energy sector DESPITE a climate emergency
India most vulnerable to climate change
More than 22 million Indians were affected by extreme weather events in 2017, making the country most open to the cliamte attack
Fertilizer companies will not allow meaningful action in agriculture during COP 21: report
The report says the role of fertilizers in contributing to climate change has been severely misunderstood
Latest IPCC report reeks of northern agenda
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group Report III suggests historical emissions are a thing of the past; it endorses carbon …
Climate change: IPCC report warns of looming food crisis
The report—Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability—says erratic and extreme weather, like severe droughts, floods …
IPCC report warning: 4.5°C rise in Kolkata by century-end, rise in cyclones, sea level
Sea level close to Sundarbans at the southern fringe of Kolkata expected to rise 60 cm by century-end
Voluntary carbon markets need integrity as much as growth
Task force launched by United Nations Climate Finance envoy must widen its task
Oceans are heating up 60% faster than IPCC claims: study
The researchers claim that devices used to measure ocean temperatures are not evenly distributed
Global warming risks “severe, widespread and irreversible”, says IPCC
Warns both frequency and intensity of extreme weather such as floods, and droughts will go up
Clear signs: 1.5°C warmer world to be catastrophic for India
DTE pieces together latest IPCC data to chart how temperature, rainfall patterns in India’s states will change in a 1.5°C warmer world
World may temporarily breach 1.5°C in the next five years: WMO
There is a 48% chance that global near-surface temperatures may exceed 1.5°C above preindustrial levels at least one year between 2022 and 2026
Climate change induced droughts major driver of food insecurity: IPCC report
India’s rice output may decrease 30% if global warming rises to 4°C above pre-industrial levels
Then and now: Prime polluters
China, US and EU-27 (excluding the UK) currently emit over 50% of the world’s 36.44 GtCO2 Africa and India, each with 17% of the world’…
IPCC report warning: Mumbai will be worst hit among Indian metros
The city is set to experience the highest increase in total annual rainfall among other metropolitan cities in the 21st century; mean …
IPCC report: Global emissions must peak by 2025 to keep warming at 1.5°C
Even in the most optimistic scenario, there is only a 50:50 chance that global temperature rise will stop there
Impacts: The hare and the tortoise
While findings on the impacts of climate change get bleaker and bleaker, the negotiations still hobble along at a snail's pace.
The lateral push
India must think in parallel because extreme weather events—both known and unknown—are becoming the order of the day
Heat waves likely to last ‘25 times longer’ in India by another 2-4 decades, says climate report
The heatwaves will last over five times longer if global temperature rise is constrained to about 2°C, says report launched ahead …
CoP 26: Greening of polar ice should top agenda; here’s why
Greening will convert the ‘net reflective’ ice caps to ‘net absorptive’, accelerating polar ice melting
Battling Climate Change
Technologies exist to arrest global warming. But the political will toimplement them is missing