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Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 19, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

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 …

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 …

State of the Global Climate report: 58% of ocean suffered at least one marine heatwave event in 2022

Around 25% of ocean surface also affected by marine cold spells

Ruckus over IPCC's global warming data

Bureaucracy on the beach

India’s G20 Presidency: As a major emitter, bloc is obliged to address climate change, sustainable development

Climate finance remains an area of contention within the G20 as there is an uneven distribution of financial resources to countries that are most …

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, …

Asian scientists on new plan to study monsoon patterns

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

Climate change affects low-lying areas, puts poor at risk

Aila prompts exodus

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  

Shudder islands

Harsh environment, government apathy are literally driving Sundarbans inhabitants mad

Latest IPCC report clinches evidence of human-induced climate change

The word is management

A single Antarctic heatwave or storm can noticeably raise the sea level

Individual extreme weather events can also have a much longer-term effect on the world’s largest ice sheets

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

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