UN Security Council steps into climate change

Calls attention to potential threat of climate on international peace

Spanner on Mumbai's free floor space project

Builders exploit civic administration's plan, make fortunes

Funding Loss & Damage: Differences persist as COP28 looms

Contentions persist over the contributors, recipients and headquarters of the LDF

Draft coastal management notification faces protests

Cyclone Amphan: Discrepancy in wind speed data of US agency, IMD

US Joint Typhoon Centre recorded 270 km / hr peak wind speed, while IMD recorded 240 km / hr 

Jarawa man speaks out against sexual abuse of young women

Audio clip reveals that poachers and settlers are introducing the tribe to alcohol and marijuana

Odisha plans regulated Olive Ridley tourism

State's coast is nesting ground for the half the world's population of the endangered turtle; tour operators sceptical of the plan

Adanis served show cause notice for Mundra project

Environment ministry move follows report pointing to flouting of environmental rules and its impact on the region

Plant 50 million mangroves in the Sundarbans? Improbable, say experts

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee had decided on the plantation to compensate for plants lost during Cyclone Amphan

Bonn climate meet: countries ready to work on Durban Platform

Call to make equity and common but differentiated responsibilities central to future work plan 

Industrialisation bringing acid rain to India

Climate financing adds to poor countries’ debt pile: Oxfam

Eighty per cent of climate financing was provided as loans in 2017-18, according to study

MoEF directed to reassess Pipavav port expansion project

National Green Tribunal reprimands environment ministry for casual evaluation

Mistakes made at Copenhagen may get repeated at Doha climate talks

Qatar could ask ministers to short-circuit negotiations

Update Andaman Trunk Road controversy

A hard rain’s falling

Sayantan Bera tells the story of a man and a state, paralysed inside the remote islands of Sundarbans

AOSIS proposal for focus on renewable energy welcomed

Need for integrated approach to adaptation and mitigation raised; parties call for Warsaw COP to address finance

Over 80% people felt climate change-induced heat in July 2023

Temperature records set on all continents in July, including areas in winter

Countries haven’t done enough to combat climate change: Figueres

Future of Kyoto Protocol the focus of Panama climate meet

India tries to put spotlight back on pre-2020 actions of developed countries

G77+China submit that pre-2020 action will serve as the foundation for the post-2020 climate agreement

Argentina scraps deal with UK to share oil found off Falkland Islands

Message from Bonn: Drop Bali agenda

Disagreements begin; parties to discuss informally to adopt long-term cooperation agenda

New rules for coasts

Environment ministry notifies CRZ 2011. It has pro-builder bias, say fishers and activists

Bonn climate talks: no change in parties' negotiating positions

Parties anxious to start discussions to reach 2015 agreement

Countries disagree on framework for mitigation approaches

Workshop brings greater clarity on various approaches, but issue of double counting and disagreements on the role of UNFCCC still persist