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
America’s first ‘climate refugees’ and a vanishing island
The island, which had over 22,000 acres of land in 1955, has lost about 98 per cent of it due to sea level rise, saltwater intrusion and subsidence
Climate Change and Extreme Weather- Beyond Simple Causation: An interview with Krishna Achuta Rao
Krishna AchutaRao is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Atmospheric Science, IIT Delhi. He talks about the extreme weather events and it's …
Freak Weather and Climate Change 2015: In Conversation with Shreeshan Venkatesh
The year 2015 will be remembered for 'freak weather' events all around the world. Are such events here to stay? A discussion with Science …
'Climate change may render impossible what remains of traditional Inuit life patterns'
Stephen R Bown says 'Father of Eskimology' Knud Rasmussen's writings are literary masterpieces and constitute a priceless contribution to …
International Mountain Day: Highland people to face vagaries of weather, food insecurity
Released on the occasion of Mountain Day, two reports highlight climate threats to high altitude areas
We need to convince the world about 1.5 degrees when there is still a lot of quibbling about 2
J.R. Nereus O Acosta Secretary Office of the Presidential Adiviser for Environmental Protection, Philippine on the new momentum at COP21 to …
'Money in climate fund hardly enough for grassroots programmes'
Lidy Nacpil is the regional coordinator of Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (Philippines)
Increasing ocean acidity will hit the marine food chain, says study
Increasing acidification impacts phytoplankton, which in turn will drastically affect the fish population
I (don’t) care
Poland is not the only problem. Every developed country is now going back on its past commitments
Extreme heat and rain: Thousands of weather stations show there’s now more of both, for longer
Unusually warm days are becoming more common throughout Australia; New Zealander also experiencing more days with temperatures 25℃ or more
Time to abandon UNFCCC to address climate change
The progress made by United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change so far and its potential to deliver results in the future looks …
Ants can’t alter behaviour to deal with warmer climate: Report
Heat stress on the insects will mean higher metabolism and food demands along with a shorter lifespan
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
US, equity and the elephants in the room
The issue of sharing the common atmospheric space has been at the core of discussions—the elephant in the room that we want to forget. It …
International Day of Climate Action: All talk, no show on Paris Agreement targets
Countries may have announced grandiose plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but they are unlikely to meet the global target to become carbon …
COP24: Consensus on global emission reduction key to carbon markets’ success
All nations must make efficient use of the few days left of the Katowice conference since till now they have been struggling to come to a …
COP24: Developing world continues to seek funds for agriculture
Nations participating in the conference discussed climate change impacts on agriculture at a workshop in Katowice
Building norms bent for better ease of doing business rankings
The latest notification has eased green norms for builders to facilitate urban development
Climate change kills 98% insects in Puerto Rico’s rainforest: study
This decline will majorly impact the forest plantation and the animals living there
Bangkok climate intersession: Tough task for Parties ahead
Parties have to come up with a clear negotiating text for creation of rule book to implement the Paris Agreement