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What are human-caused methane ‘super emitter’ events?

The latest addition to this is the Kazakhstan blowout, igniting a fire that burned for over six months

IPCC 1.5 Report: Mitigation pathways clear, but countries need to commit

“Far-reaching transitions” in energy, land, infrastructure and industrial systems are needed

Himalayan communities are under siege from landslides — and climate change is worsening the crisis

As the heavy rain intensifies, it will be hugely important for the Himalayas to implement new user-friendly and reliable construction guidelines …

Central banks and climate change: How they can play a role in managing the fallout

Central banks set interest rates, which determines the prices of goods and services. This, in turn, influences the climate impacts of their …

Lessons from Zimbabwe’s tobacco farmers for the COP26 climate change talks

Tobacco, as with much agricultural production, promotes unsustainable modes of commodification and consumption of nature

Explainer series: What sixth IPCC report says about India and the world

Climate change is rapid, widespread and irreversible, IPCC flagged on August 9, when it released its sixth assessment report. A collection of …

Sunita Narain: We have to build a climate-resilient world to end human suffering from climate change

The world’s climate crisis means we are seeing more intense storms, rising sea levels, increased drought and more human suffering. In an …

More than 5 million people die each year because of extreme temperature conditions

More people died of cold than heat over the two-decade period of a recent study. But heat-related deaths were increasing, while cold-linked …

Canadian province saw 12,000 lightning strikes in a day

Canada is currently battling more than 180 wildfires in British Columbia, emergency services say

Can thunderstorms tell us more about climate change

Scientists spot correlation between storms in US Southern Great Plains and variations in climate

Tonga volcano spews enough water to fill 58,000 pools into stratosphere, likely to add to global warming

Excess stratospheric H2O will persist for years, could affect stratospheric chemistry and dynamics and may lead to surface warming

Climate change denial: ExxonMobil may face trial

Massachusetts High Court case accuses fossil fuel major of decieving investors, breaking laws

Climate change: West African countries mark $294 billion to meet challenge

The commitment is part of a Regional Climate Strategy to set regional mitigation and adaptation targets for 2030, with a review planned for 2050, …

IPCC AR6 (Part III): Cut emissions across all sectors to keep temperature rise to 1.5°C

According to the report, limiting warming to around 1.5°C requires global GHG emissions to peak before 2025 and reduce by 43 per cent by 2030

Asani: The first cyclone of 2022

The storm will move northwards along and off the Andamans, towards the Myanmar and south Bangladesh coast in the next 48 hours

Climate and food price rise: Weather systems are so extreme that farmers have lost entire crop cycle

The domino effect that extreme weather events has on reduction of agricultural production and food inflation is clearer than ever

Rapid thaw of permafrost can release large volumes of greenhouse gases

Scientists have warned that vast swaths of permafrost across the Arctic may thaw much before the current projections, releasing vast amounts of …

Weather alerts: Will everyone continue to have access

Amid mushrooming private, for-profit enterprises will old-fashioned public players be able to serve weather data for free

Public good approach to weather data not suitable for commercial purposes: WMO director

Dimitar Ivanov, director at Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization, speaks to Down to Earth on the public vs private debate in …

Climate Warriors: After Greta, now meet Hilda

Hilda Flavia Nakabuye is a 22-year-old Ugandan college student, who recently delivered a powerful speech in Copenhagen on the climate crisis

Sustainable climate policy cannot dodge the question of consumption

Climate policy rooted in aggressively perpetuating consumption cannot guarantee more than a temporary respite from ecological crisis

Flood crisis cuts off communities in Western Australia

The floods have created an emergency situation in Kimberly, an area in the state of Western Australia which is about the size of California

Europe’s ‘pyroregions’: Summer 2022 saw 20-year freak fires in regions historically immune, close to normal in fire prone areas

Expansion of fire-prone pyroregions in southern Europe is projected under various warming scenarios