How Putin’s war and small islands are accelerating the global shift to clean energy, and what to watch for in 2023
International Energy Agency revised its projection of renewable energy growth upward by 30%
The Philippines gets its first ‘zero waste’ island
Residents of Apo Island now rinse and dry out their plastic bottles, food cans and other recyclables before throwing them away
Move over record air temperatures, Delhi’s scorched land surface is making waves
Delhi’s land surface temperature almost doubled in a little over a month, aggravating heatwave conditions
America’s first ‘climate refugees’ and a vanishing island
The island, which had over 22,000 acres of land in 1955, has lost about 98 per cent of it due to sea level rise, saltwater intrusion and subsidence
Omnipresent Poison
The maximum residue limits for the pesticide endosulfan in soilwater and vegetables from Padre have been breached several times over. But human …
Maldives can adapt to sea-level rise. Here’s how
New study supports raising island height, building new habitations to save Maldives, low-lying areas
Gaping chasms
A proposed bridge to link Vypeen island with the mainland spurs controversies
Cyclone Gabrielle: how microgrids could help keep the power on during extreme weather events
Microgrids are self-sufficient and can operate independently or in conjunction with the larger grid. They can run on different types of renewable …
Dry study on an oceanic idyll
PEOPLES OF INDIA: ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS Edited by K S Singh Publisher: Oxford University Press/Anthropological Survey of India Price: Not …
Socotra archipelago: Why the Emiratis have set their sights on the Arab world’s Garden of Eden
Experts estimate tHAT 37% of its plant species, 90% reptiles and 95% land snails exist nowhere else in the world
Why are polar bears migrating to Russia from Alaska?
Sea ice, on which polar bears rely for hunting, have been on the decline
The Andamans up for grabs
Buffer for Jarawas
Private tourism to be banned
No one-size-fits-all way to combat urban heat island effect
Tropical and dry cities respond differently to heat mitigation strategies. This difference should be considered when trying to protect residents …
A village island in Kerala is about to vanish
10 of the 13 wards in the village are partly submerged and life gets difficult by the day
Glasgow showdown: Pacific Islands demand global leaders bring action, not excuses, to UN summit
Pacific island countries have refused to be the canary in the world’s coal mine at CoP26
Hidaya has made landfall as per Kenya Met Department; but another depression is developing behind it
Mtwara, a coastal city in Tanzania, receives 140% of its average May rainfall in 12 hours
Islands of heat
CSE study shows how Indian urban centres are trapping more heat due to built-up landscapes, in turn impacting health
How the invasion of a tiny insect is altering Antarctica’s soil & its ecosystem
The other fear is that it can spread through other islands as it can survive in water
Underwater threat
Unbridled avarice
Patent over AIDS drug-yielding tree
Lakshwadeep islands to be connected by Ham radio
Devastated by disease in the past, Samoa is on high alert after recent coronavirus scares
Memories of the deadly 2019 measles outbreak were still fresh; add to that social media comparisons to the infamous 1918 Spanish flu pandemic
I learned the language without references
Pramod Kumar researches a language spoken by only 273 people in the Andaman islands. A PhD candidate at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, he …