Landmarks in the world of weather forecast

Events, inventions and discoveries in weather forecasting

Simply put: UN Climate Action Summit 2019

Ambitious climate policy requires a better federalism

Some insights from the NDC process in Canada and Kenya

Simply put: FaceApp Challenge

Drought watch: More than 44% of India now suffers

India has witnessed the second driest pre-monsoon season in the last 65 years

Heatwave high alert: Vast section of India reel this summer

Heatwaves are the third-biggest natural killer in India

How fair is it for Trump to walk out of Paris Agreement?

Trump dumps the Paris climate deal

For Donald Trump, the concept of climate change is a hoax

This week in environment and science

Environment and science related updates from across the world

Green Climate Fund approves eight projects at Zambia meet

Approved projects worth US$ 168 million

How climate change impacts human health

Chikungunya

Water levels in dams on Himachal rivers decline to half of their capacity

The state, ravaged by floods in 2023, has been suffering a long dry spell this winter because of the lack of rain and snow in the last three months

IPCC Special Report: Climate risks require India to rethink its approach

The report warns of increased risk of coastal flooding, heatwaves, food scarcity and vector-borne diseases

Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change

How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos?

Feel the bitter winds

Nila Madhab Panda's Kadvi Hawa is a gently told tale of a family caught in the cusp of climate change

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 …

Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed ― and What It Means for Our Future

From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change.

Ice-free Arctic may happen much sooner than predicted so far: study

While Arctic sea ice volume and extent continue to dip each year, a new study has found out that salinity in snow cover affects accuracy of …

Climate Change: Sunita Narain on adaptation to the new normal

Sunita Narain's video-speech at the Water Research Commission Symposium 2017, in Boksburg, South Africa. She talks about the importance of water …

Can algae be a profitable solution for carbon capture?

Siddhanta Das, special secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, talks about using algae to capture carbon from industrial …

Are We Screwed?: How a New Generation is Fighting to Survive Climate Change

A declaration of resistance, and a roadmap for radical change, from the generation that will be most screwed by climate change.

Leaders' summit : Nations need to walk the talk on climate change

Implementation of these ambitions would require enhanced institutional capabilities through policy amends, behavioural change and technology support

Climate summit in New York: Why it’s happening and what to expect

The hopes for this summit seem to rest on China and India as they are likely to take inspiration from the joint statement issued at the BASIC meeting