The Green Climate Fund must be a champion for real sustainability
Its niche has to be true sustainability — the ability to generate climate-conscious and socially beneficial results in regions …
US not doing its bit to reduce emissions
Without strong federal funding, targets and commitment, it will be very difficult for the US to become a low carbon economy, a new CSE report says
Wildlife corridors critical in protecting animals from climate change: Study
When species disperse and adapt due to climate change at the same time, faster evolving species prevent slower ones from shifting their ranges, …
A brief introduction to climate change and transportation
How to reconcile people's love affair with their vehicles and society's need to reduce carbon emissions?
Watch: What the UN chief had to say about climate emergency
Down To Earth brings you footage from the interview of Antonio Guterres by the Nation and CBS News as part of the COvering Climate Now media …
Benefits of climate adaptation far outweigh costs
The world can accrue net benefits worth $7.1 trillion by spending $1.8 trillion on climate adaptation, according to latest Global Commission on …
India: Making of a desert over the years
Over 25 per cent of India’s land area is undergoing desertification. Of the 30 states, 26 recorded an increase in the area under …
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
Drawdown
For the first time ever, an international coalition of leading researchers, scientists and policymakers has come together to offer a set of …
A Global Threat: the Emergence of Climate Change Science
Throughout history, Earth's temperature has risen and fallen at various cycles, creating extreme weather events, such as ice ages.
The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World
In a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. It can no longer be separated from society.
Paying the Carbon Price: The Subsidisation of Heavy Polluters Under Emissions Trading Schemes
Paying the Carbon Price analyses the practice of freely allocating permits in Emissions Trading Schemes (ETSs)
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 …
Climate change and small islands
Inhabited by nearly 4.5 million people, even after 70 years of Independence Sundarbans is without proper roads and surface transport, drinking …
Why I mourn Dussehra: Climate change and death of seasons
People of Odisha have given a clear verdict: from number of seasons to mating habits of birds, they say everything has changed as a result of …
Global Carbon Pricing: The Path to Climate Cooperation
After twenty-five years of failure, climate negotiations continue to use a “pledge and review” approach: countries pledge (almost …
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
We have missed the bus again
Government lost the opportunity of using fiscal signals to discourage polluting technologies and fuels
Sunita Narain in conversation with Amitav Ghosh
In his new book, novelist Amitav Ghosh examines our inability-at the level of literature, history and politics-to grasp the scale and violence of …