Atoll nations at immediate risk of climate change
Made up of ring shaped group of coral reefs, islands or a series of islets, these nations are the first to face rising sea-levels and extreme …
Polarising the polar
Ravaged by global warming, an ice-free Arctic is going to become the next battleground for economic hegemony
Extreme continent: New WMO report paints alarming picture of climate emergency in Asia
The effects of climate events on Asia in 2022 were much more pronounced, with an increase in the number of fatalities, people affected and …
Did 2015 make us more climate wise?
Last year, weather records were broken left, right and centre all over the world as the world witnessed cold waves, heat waves, droughts, …
What’s going on with the Greenland ice sheet?
It’s losing ice faster than forecast and now irreversibly committed to at least 10 inches of sea level rise
Boiling point
Greenhouse gas emissions could raise global temperatures much more than previously forecast leading to drought and flooding as weather patterns …
Whose mandate? UNSC not appropriate forum say India, Russia and Brazil as Council debates sea-level rise
Over 70 leaders call for considering climate change impacts on security before conflicts break out or worsen
High road to Dubai COP28: Scientists join group in saying 1.5°C warming limit too high
20-nation group point to global impacts on world’s ice sheets, glaciers and cryosphere
How technology is helping Indian, Sri Lankan fishermen amid climate change patterns
Numer 8, an analytics company in India, is helping fishermen practice sustainable and safe fishing
31 iconic sites at risk from climate change, warns UNESCO report
The report gives a miss to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the Sundarbans in India
Land over nature
Cities are expanding indiscriminately across the globe, at the cost of rich biodiversity
Antarctica, Greenland ice sheet melting matches worst-case climate change scenarios: Study
Ice sheets lose ice at rates predicted by worst-case scenarios estimated in the last report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Pacific Ocean rising because of human activity
New research warns the ocean near the Philippines and northeast Australia are rising by about 1 cm per year due to human activity
Climate-induced migration challenge
Study commissioned by UK government warns migration may spin out of control and cause more misery if not managed properly
28 years of Earth’s surface changes on Google
Watch a city expand or a glacier shrink through a series of satellite images; see the altering landscape at four spots in India
Extreme weather events of 2013 a result of human influences: WMO
Typhoon Haiyan, heatwave in Australia, frigid polar air in parts of Europe and the US are a few events mentioned in the World Meteorological …
Climate is changing, and the Sundarban residents can feel it
The Sundarban delta region in the Bay of Bengal, with 10,000 square kilometres of estuarine mangrove forest and 102 islands, is the world's …
Future shock
As the world continues to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the global temperatures could rise by 3°C by mid-century, says a soon-to-…