2016: a year of growing dissent

This year, more than ever before, has been tumultuous, both in terms of economic politics and nature’s art

Wolf at our door

The US has made the world rewrite the climate agreement so that the targets are based on voluntary action, not science

World’s second-largest emitter might leave the first-ever global climate deal

Old answers for ‘new’ monsoon

Mitigating floods and droughts has only one answer: obsessive attention to building millions and millions of connected and living water structures

Weather is 2017 person of the year

The biggest headline of 2017 is not deadly air pollution, but the catastrophe of weather changes that are bringing distress across India’s …

Shadow of storms

The fact is that storms of 2018 hold a mirror to our future

परिवर्तन की पीड़ा

भारत में पर्यावरण पर चल रही बहस को अमीरों और गरीबों के चश्मे से देखने की जरूरत है

Change the climate now

Now that the rich are also being hit by climate change & the “attribution” is clear, the targets for the world’s anger will …

Call for business unusual

What has happened in Kerala is also happening across the world. It is an uncomfortable fact that we do not have a semblance of the plan to deal …

The wake up call

It’s time we understood that the IPCC's report could be an underestimate of the kind of dangers that await a warmed world and stopped …

Time up for reinvention?

If 2018 was the year of revolt, 2019 should be the year of realisation that we must change the way we do business

The promise and reality of renewable energy

This is not the time to be complacent with green power growth in India because the challenges have grown too

Climate caveats

Without the switch to renewable energy, CO2 emissions would have been 50 per cent higher in the world; that's great, but not enough

Changing character of cyclones

Fani teaches us that the future is even more risked and even more unpredictable than we imagined. It is time we woke up to this reality

रास्ते हैं, बस चलने की जरूरत

महात्मा गांधी ने कहा था कि हम जैसी दुनिया देखना चाहते हैं, उसी हिसाब से हमें खुद को ढालना होगा। आज की दुनिया में ...

World doesn’t have bandwidth to handle climate change-led migration

Every year is the hottest when immigrants are already living on the margins of survival

The dictum on desertification: UNCCD CoP14 presents an opportunity

Land is at the core of fighting climate change that is sure to hurt all sections eventually

Environmental challenges: Desperate crises but also opportunity for inclusion

The Centre for Science and Environment has been awarded the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2018. Here is the …

CoP18, Doha: An assessment A Gateway that leads nowhere

For the past 20 years, the world has been haggling about who will cut greenhouse gas emissions and how much.

विपदा नई, इलाज पुराना

बाढ़ और सूखे के असर को कम करने का केवल एक उपाय है। वह है लाखों, करोड़ों जल संरचनाओं को बनाने की तरफ ध्यान ...

“मानव निर्मित” आपदा

केरल में जो हुआ वह पूरी दुनिया में हो रहा है। यह एक असहज करने वाला तथ्य है कि हमारे पास बदलते मौसम से ...

हमारे बच्चे, हमारा भविष्य, हमारे मार्गदर्शक

जलवायु परिवर्तन के खिलाफ 16 साल की ग्रेटा अर्नमैन थन्बर्ग की लड़ाई आगे बढ़ रही है। इससे हम सबक ले सकते हैं। 

समझौते के तीन दशक बाद मरुस्थलीकरण पर चेती दुनिया

भारत में मरुस्थलीकरण के खिलाफ संयुक्त राष्ट्र सम्मेलन (कॉप14) चल रहा है। पढ़ें, सुनीता नारायण का यह लेख, जो बताता है कि तीन दशक बाद यह ...

वक्त जागने का

आईपीसीसी रिपोर्ट भविष्य में बढ़ने वाले तापमान के खतरे को इंगित करती है। यह चुनौती ऐसे समय में आई है जब दुनिया के पिछड़े ...

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Circumventing climate action

For countries like India to have cleaner futures, climate agreements must walk the talk; not just talk the talk