Zero-zero, net zero

The fact that Joe Biden is not a climate denier is good news. But it is not enough  

Joe Biden’s climate plan is investing too little in climate action

While the spending figure needs to be much higher, there is scope to keep up the pressure, both from domestic groups as well as international entities

How to make sure Biden’s infrastructure plan can hold up to climate change — and save money

Several US cities are now considering hurricane defense systems, and the future protection they will actually need to prevent flooding is unknown …

US Senate okays Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus plan

Relief bill sends $1,400 in direct payment to most Americans and their dependents; gives $350 billion in aid to state and local governments

Dark underbelly of Big Pharma lobbying

Recent protests and campaigns in the US have focused on the proposal by India & South Africa at WTO to keep TRIPS in abeyance till the …

Why restoring water systems should be top priority for Biden administration

Healthy rivers can no longer be separated into the ‘nice-to-have’ column of environmental progress

Texas deep freeze: Satellite images how the state plunged into darkness in days

The historic cold blast claimed almost 30 lives in Texas

One month in, how Biden has changed disaster management and the US COVID-19 response

In direct contrast to his predecessor, US President Joe Biden is treating this as a national-scale crisis requiring a comprehensive national …

Safe drinking water in America: Not everyone has it

COVID-19 can’t be transmitted through drinking water, but that doesn’t mean your tap water is safe

Simply Put: The US U-turn

From antagonist to protagonist: Is POTUS 46 the climate hero we need

US must cut emissions faster if Paris Agreement is to keep rolling

अमेरिका की सबसे बड़ी पर्यावरणीय एजेंसी 4 साल बाद पटरी पर लौटेगी

बाइडन ने माइकल रेगन को पर्यावरण संरक्षण एजेंसी (ईपीए) के प्रमुख के रूप में नियुक्त किया है, ट्रंप शासन काल में इस एजेंसी को ...

क्या उम्मीदों की कसौटी पर खरे उतर पाएंगे बाइडन?

डोनाल्ड ट्रम्प की वजह से हुई क्षति को सुधारना जो बाइडन का पहला कदम हो सकता है, लेकिन अमेरिका को जिन जलवायु चुनौतियों का ...

US elections 2020: Trumped by hunger

US presidential candidates aren’t known to talk hunger; but they do talk inequality. This year, the pandemic and racial polarisation made …

Biden’s cabinet picks are globally respected, but one obstacle remains for the US to ‘lead the world’ again

If the Democrats can’t gain control of the Senate by winning the two run-off elections in Georgia in early January, the Republican-led …

बाइडन के सामने बदलाव की चुनौती

अमेरिका में बाइडन-हैरिस जीत चुके हैं यह सच है, लेकिन ट्रंपवाद का अंत नहीं हुआ है, यह भी उतना ही बड़ा सच है

How Biden and Kerry could rebuild America’s global climate leadership

John Kerry’s decades of experience and the international relationships he developed as a senator and secretary of state may give him a …

बाइडन की कोविड-19 योजना को वैज्ञानिकों ने स्वीकारा

बाइडन-हैरिस की जोड़ी ने अमेरिका में कोविड-19 सलाहकार बोर्ड और काले व लेटिन देशों से आए लोगों के लिए टास्क फोर्स के गठन का ...

बतौर राष्ट्रपति बाइडन का प्रथम कार्य होगा पेरिस समझौते पर वापसी

अमेरिकी के नए राष्ट्रपति बाइडन आगामी जनवरी में अपने पदभार ग्रहण करते ही पहले ही घंटे में पेरिस समझौते से जुड़ने के लिए वे ...

Biden has announced a COVID taskforce to guide him through the crisis. But there are many challenges ahead

Biden must restore trust in government and science, ensure transparency and accountability, and build a common purpose so people will act for the …

बाइडन की जीत से वैज्ञानिकों ने कहा, बुरा सपना हुआ खत्म

दुनियाभर के वैज्ञानिकों ने अमेरिका के राष्ट्रपति के रूप में जो बाइडन के चुने जाने पर राहत की सांस ली है

Biden wins – experts on what it means for race relations, US foreign policy and the Supreme Court

Three scholars discuss what a Biden presidency may have in store in three key areas: race, the Supreme Court and foreign policy

Biden winning US elections 2020 shows how clean air, climate inaction influence mandate

Joe Biden’s electoral victory proves that democracy can work for science and environmental justice, says Anumita Roychowdhury of CSE

President Biden will put US back on Obama’s climate trajectory: Holdren

VIDEO INTERVIEW: John Holdren, science advisor to Obama administration, lists 6 things he thinks Joe Biden would do on climate change

Congress could select the president in a disputed election

If disputed state vote totals are not resolved by six days prior to December 14, Congress can step in, under the 1887 Electoral Count Act