Between 1990 and 2016, 2,843 climate disasters affected 4·8 billion people: Lancet report

The report was jointly prepared by 24 academic institutions and intergovernmental organisations based on 40 indicators

Suva Expert Dialogue: Parties fail to present new ideas on tackling climate impacts

The two-day dialogue on loss and damage could not move beyond stating the obvious and raising concerns over roadblocks

Clouds of confusion over monsoon's timely arrival

While extended range forecast shows some signs of an early onset, other meteorological conditions have shrouded the forecast in uncertainty

Himalayan glaciers are receding faster than before

To understand their changing behaviour in the wake of climate change, Indian scientists have for the first time set up a high-altitude glaciology …

Africa: The least responsible, but most vulnerable to climate change

More than 2,000 natural disasters have hit Africa since 1970 affecting 500 million people and killing 0.9 million

Six months after including agriculture in climate negotiations, Parties agree on roadmap

Over the next two and half years, the negotiating group will meet five times to discuss and prepare reports on the work required for each of the …

IPCC report on global warming of 1.5°C: Seven things that emerge from the first look

The reprot suggests that it has become extremely improbable to achieve the 1.5°C goal purely by reducing emission

Here's why the latest push for pre-2020 action at COP23 is likely to fall flat

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad stressed on the importance of meeting pre-2020 commitments on which there has been little progress so far

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Issues at stake in COP 22

The COP summit in Marrakech may be crucial for negotiations on some long-standing issues at the UNFCCC

Bonn climate meet ends amid concern over lack of urgency in accelerating negotiations

While the Bonn meet was packed with hundreds of parallel meetings, progress on readying a text for COP 24 has been slow

COP22: opening session on agriculture discusses climate adaptation, food security

Developing countries, especially from Africa, voiced the need to mobilise finance from developed countries

Finally, a breakthrough on agriculture on the cards at Bonn

Draft document on agriculture stresses on assessment of risks, a differentiation of vulnerability and actions required based on farming systems …

Trump calls Paris Agreement ‘unfair’, but how fair is his claim?

Trump’s speech on withdrawing from climate deal punctuated by half-truths and exaggerations

Paris Agreement comes into force; first meeting of governing body may not happen

One of the talking points during this year’s COP could be the financial mechanism at play for climate change action

There is no safe level of global warming: IPCC report

Unless net carbon dioxide emissions are brought down to zero by 2050, warming above 1.5°C is practically inevitable

From Africa, with will

For the first time, African countries flagged off urbanisation as a factor impacting climate change at the recently held Africa Carbon Forum …

Antarctic ice melting at a rate that led to the end of last ice age: Study

Researchers found that between 2010 and 2016 the base of ice near the floor of the ocean has shrunk by 1,463 sq km, roughly the size of Delhi

Mr Trump, please don’t set a bad precedent

Despite the signs of climate change, Donald Trump administration can derail the modest progress that the US has made towards tackling it

India Pavilion at COP22 inaugurated

The Enviroment Minister underlined the need to spread climate change awareness and the importance of collective action

Have human-made changes heralded a new epoch?

Experts have proposed that the new epoch—Anthropocene—began around 1950, when human-induced changes started affecting earth's geology

Indian scientists study dust holes that dot the Himalayas for the first time

These holes could not only hasten glacial melt but also host unique ecosystems

Unmasking con-science

Incorporating dark humour, wit and cartoons, The Madhouse Effect lays bare the obfuscation of climate science deniers

Two depressions in September, an anomaly in this already erratic monsoon

There have been only three instances in the last 30 years where two depressions had been recorded in the Bay of Bengal in September

India's climate quandary

The National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture, India's flagship programme that aims to make Indian villages climate-proof, is at …