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Excess snowfall, avalanche in Himachal block Chenab river flow
State records 508% percent excess rain and snowfall since March 1
Ladakh: No snow in the cold desert
The arid winter in the region this time is raising concerns among the local population, as it forebodes a potentially alarming situation
The 21st century lore of Atacama
A never before weather experience in Atacama Desert in Chile in 2017 was not a freak development, but part of a planetary level change sweeping …
2023 is poised to become the hottest year, with October already setting a new climate record
The October of 2023 was the hottest ever, further solidifying the expectation that 2023 will break temperature records
The Great Carbon Capture: All about India's carbon market
India’s lucrative carbon market is worth over $1.2 billion. It will only grow as the crisis of climate change becomes more urgent and …
Unusual rains cause locust attacks in UP, MP after 27 years
Excess rainfall in March, April and early May, along with north westerly winds due to Super cyclone Amphan carried locusts to areas they did …
African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation
The book discusses current thinking and presents the main issues and challenges associated with climate change in Africa.
Climate Risk in Africa: Adaptation and Resilience
This open access book highlights the complexities around making adaptation decisions and building resilience
Highest glacier on Mt Everest is rapidly melting
The ice that took around 2,000 years to form, has rapidly melted away since the 1990s, which means it has thinned out around 80 times faster than …
What is global warming doing to ocean floors?
A new study done by researchers at Montreal-based Mcgill University has found that acidification is also rapidly dissolving the ocean floor.
Social cost of CO2 emission
India’s country-level social cost of carbon emission was estimated to be the highest at $86 per tonne of CO2. It means the Indian economy …
Drawdown
For the first time ever, an international coalition of leading researchers, scientists and policymakers has come together to offer a set of …
US Defense Department is worried about climate change. It's also a huge carbon emitter
The Department of Defense is the US government’s largest fossil fuel consumer, accounting for between 77% and 80% of all federal government …
Climate change eats into output of top 10 food crops
Production decreased unequally for barley, cassava, maize, oil palm, rapeseed, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugarcane and wheat
Photo essay: The Missing Zangti
The Himalayan region is highly sensitive towards changes in global climate, and more than half of glaciers in Satluj Basin are set to vanish by 2050
Deep sea carbon reservoirs once superheated the Earth – could it happen again?
At the end of the last glacial era, about 20,000 years ago, carbon dioxide was released into the ocean from geologic reservoirs located on the …
Global warming to raise frequency of heat waves: Study
The heat wave days will have shorter recovery periods and the effects would be significantly worse than stand-alone events.
World’s largest ice shelf melting rapidly due to solar heating of ocean surface
If this situation continues, sea levels would rise up to 60 metres by 2050 and the ocean would engulf coastal cities across the globe
Cyclone Idai: Rich countries are to blame for disasters like this – here’s how they can make amends
It is not only the intensity of environmental disasters that makes them devastating – poverty also has a huge bearing on how things play out
Spain records its hottest-ever temperature in 62 years
Hot air moving from North Africa into Europe and a high-pressure weather system are responsible for the current situation in the Iberian country
Most heat action plans in India are not suited to local contexts: Study
Indian heat action plans do not take humidity, hot nights and duration of continuous heat into consideration; they are poor at identifying and …
What is carbon pricing?
Carbon pricing works by putting a monetary value on carbon, which makes the cost of emitting carbon explicit to those polluting
What Donald Trump's win means for climate change?
Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General of CSE talks the change in climate change politics after Donald Trump becomes the president of the …
Issues at stake in COP 22
The COP summit in Marrakech may be crucial for negotiations on some long-standing issues at the UNFCCC
