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India’s carbon roadmap

Cooking stoves in carbon trade

Improved stoves will be standardized for fuel and emission efficiency

Monsoon maps on trees

Growth rings allow for future prediction of drought  

GWP100 or GWP*: Meat, dairy lobby pushing for new methane metric. How this will enable greenwashing

New method takes current methane emissions as baseline to present minor reductions as negative emissions or cooling

How green is Union Budget 2022-23?

Electric vehicle policy sees triple boost in this year‘s Union Budget

SBSTTA-25: Delegates move forward on recommendations to implement Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Synergy between climate change & biodiversity recognised; work on indicators to continue till next meeting  

Troubling picture of Antarctica ice shelves: Study finds 40% volume lost in 25 years

Half of them shrinking with no sign of recovery, about 7.5 trillion tonnes of meltwater released into oceans

Bonn conference ends without making headway: CSE

The non-profit says it is concerned about tardy progress of negotiations

Science & Technology - Bytes

Climate change may lead to improved oxygen levels in oceans, says study

Tropical Pacific winds may be aiding oxygenation, suggest researchers

Arctic ice makes way for oil trade

Melting Arctic ice will establish South Korea as Asia oil hub by 2020

Oceans Commission proposes eight ways to reverse degradation of high seas

Report calls for urgent global action to save oceans from pollution and acidification

BJP’s maiden budget disappointing for farmers

Jaitley continues with UPA schemes on agriculture, allocates more funds

Accelerated ice melts in Greenland triggers alarm

The phenomenon is likely to increase estimates of global sea level rise

Sea of change

Global warming poses threat to CO2-absorbing planktons

Progress at Bonn marred by old climate politics

Will negotiating parties be able to sort out their differences at Doha?

Fertiliser’s true climate impact

Empirical estimates of nitrous oxide levels in environment made

Science and Technology - Briefs

Climatic conundrum

Ice cover might be increasing in the West Antarctic contrary to its presumed collapse

Cold diversity

Antarctica's larval diversity can warn us of the effects of climate change

A wake-up call

Britain's worst ever flood in 50 years could be a result of global warming

Sweet hostage

Dutch minister Jan Pronk pays obeisance to the choleric demands of the US Senate

Mercury rising

Where there is smoke

Forest fires could have unexpected effects on the world's climate