Earth records hottest day ever on July 3, 2023; record broken the very next day
Unfortunately, July 3 might only be the first in a series of records that might be broken this year itself
How have Cyclone Biporjoy and El Nino influenced the monsoon in India?
If a cyclone is moving away from the mainland, it drives the moisture away. But if it is progressing towards the coast, it could enhance the monsoon
Drought to deluge: Heavy rain causes flash flooding across southern Spain
Spain is one of several countries this year that was facing extreme dry conditions and suddenly faced flash floods after torrential rain
Climate finance needs could cost India 85.6 lakh crore by 2030
Climate adaptation measures need to take into account the infrastructure gap caused by climate events
Over $9 trillion investments in infrastructure resilience, Net Zero needed by 2050 to mitigate climate impact: CDRI
Climate change may lead to an global average annual loss of over $700 billion in infrastructure sectors and buildings
By 2050, the world will lose $38,000,000,000,000 to climate change, dragging down average income by 19%
Poorest countries may have income reductions 8.9 percentage points greater than richest countries
Your aircon could make 2024 the hottest on record
As the world reels from the hottest year on record, the weather outlook for the future looks grim, with extreme heat set to be unavoidable unless …
High road to Dubai COP28: What to expect at the upcoming Bonn climate conference
It’s all about the money this year
Study links climate change with wheat blast; warns crop yield could drop by 75% in South America, Africa by 2050
Wheat blast-prone locations could increase due to climate impact; global wheat production could drop by 13%
Smallholder farmers are filling climate adaptation gaps from their own income, finds survey
Farmers spend 20-40% of their annual income on adaptation; total contribution $368 billion every year surpasses $230 million pledged for …
Climate action is fight of our lives: UN head at SCO summit
Important role of SCO members in climate fight, says Guterres; brings up Climate Solidarity Pact, Acceleration Agenda
EU climate advisory board recommends reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 90-95% by 2040 from 1990 levels
Of 63 scenarios compatible with the target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, 27 had high feasibility concerns
Global heating to put 600 million Indians at ‘greatest future risk’: Study
Nearly a billion people could be protected from dangerous heat if countries manage to contain global heating to 1.5C, the threshold of the Paris …
After catastrophic drought for 6 years, flash floods in Somalia displace 200,000
Floods by ongoing Gu rains destructed Belet Weyne district, Hirshabelle State and Baardheere in Jubaland State, says UN
April 2023 records great variations in temperatures globally: Copernicus
World’s fourth warmest April; 0.32°C warmer than the 1991-2020 average
We just blew past 1.5 degrees. Game over on climate? Not yet
We haven’t yet failed to meet our Paris targets, but the July record shows us we are dangerously close to the line
Bonn Climate Conference 2024: Stage set for new climate finance goal enroute to Baku
Experts and diplomats met for the second round of this year’s technical discussions on the New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance
Last 12 months were the warmest in 125,000 years
Temperatures 1.3°C above the pre-industrial era since November 2022
El Nino and rising temperatures can lead to uptick of malaria in Ethiopia, warns research
Study finds link between malaria outbreaks and El Nino events in the country
Portuguese youths sue 33 European governments at EU court in largest climate case ever
Case will constitute what lawyers refer to as a “hard case” & play an important role in other future climate applications
Warming Kashmir? Extreme events like current heatwave becoming more common, say experts
Srinagar recorded second hottest September day in 132 years this week; heatwave to last a week more
Four factors driving 2023’s extreme heat and climate disasters
Three additional natural factors are also helping drive up global temperatures and fuel disasters this year: El Nino, solar fluctuations and a …
Scotsman James Skea elected new IPCC chair in Nairobi, as record-breaking July nears end
Skea is Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College in London and will lead the IPCC through its seventh assessment cycle
Why are so many climate records breaking all at once?
Temporary exceedance of 1.5℃ will give us an unfortunate preview of what our planet will be like in the coming decades
Climate change believers are more likely to cooperate with strangers, new research finds
One psychological mechanism that could explain variation in climate change beliefs and pro-environmental behaviour is a general willingness to …