Madagascar’s ancient baobab forests are being restored by communities — with a little help from AI
Deforestation driven by slash-and-burn agriculture and vanishing of large-bodied animals that would spread the boabab seeds major reasons for decline
Major droughts make women 35 per cent more likely to be underweight: New study
Teenage pregnancy & intimate partner violence also grew after drought episodes
Simply Put: Annual climate finance COP-out
Five questions for African countries that want to build climate-resilient health systems
Health systems also need to explicitly address the risks of climate change
Climate lawsuits against major polluters linked with fall in their stock prices: Study
Big emitters hurt the most by new cases and unfavourable verdicts in climate litigation
Heatwave grips US too, ‘excessive heat warning’ for some areas
Biden announces measures to combat climate change
5% rise in India’s GHG emissions since 2016, driven by energy & industrial sectors
Around 75% of overall greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 came from energy sector, while the industrial sector contributed to 8%
Climate crisis in forests: Wild fruits, sacred groves in Sharavathi valley bear the brunt
Fruiting cycle, intensity disturbed due to weather changes but improvement noticed in patches untouched by human interventions
Extreme weather in Africa: Floods affect 2 million children in 3 months in these 3 countries
Severe flooding has pushed children in Nigeria, Chad & South Sudan into increased risk of waterborne diseases, malnutrition
Run-up to COP27: LDCs want clear process to bridge $100 billion fund gap, loss & damage finance structure
Manjeet Dhakal, advisor to the LDC chair, talks about challenges faced by disadvantaged countries & their agenda for CoP27
Act responsibly on climate emergency to protect public health, editors urge leaders
Over 200 editors from across the world call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health
Managing microclimates — a ‘third way’ to combat climate change
Effective microclimate management has the potential to reduce temperatures by 1.5-2 degrees Celsius
End fossil fuels: Climate group calls for global occupation of schools & universities
Can no longer pretend normality is fine, claims group; announces protest days after global climate strike
UNEP production gap report: Net-zero targets by countries are empty pledges without plans
Governments are planning to produce more than double the production of fossil fuels than what the world requires to limit global temperature rise …
IPCC report: Global emissions must peak by 2025 to keep warming at 1.5°C
Even in the most optimistic scenario, there is only a 50:50 chance that global temperature rise will stop there
Europe to US to India, it’s been a week of extreme weather events
At least 40 countries in Europe, North America, Asia, Oceania and Africa have been hit by the extreme natural disasters
Climate change to force mass migration of venomous snakes, increase poisoning in people, cattle
Models estimate some species may lose over 70% of their habitat while others gain over 250%
Euthanasia for mental disorders: In a warming world, will eco-anxiety lead to more such appeals?
In most assisted dying appeals, people say it is the psychological suffering, rather than physical pain, that motivated them
Protect indigenous rights to save Amazon forest, urge leaders at COP28
Amazonian Indigenous leaders will be calling for urgent action to protect their rights, end industrial mining to pave way for Brazil COP
G20 summit: Timeline for fossil fuel phaseout missing in New Delhi declaration, flag experts
Less than half of G20 countries have net-zero laws in place
Ground report: Climate disasters in Bihar, UP make children more vulnerable to trafficking
Trafficking rackets use climate disasters as opportunities, say experts
Greece passes first climate law
The law envisages decommissioning all lignite / coal plants by 2028
Local knowledge refined with tech & funds can help climate adaptation in Asia-Pacific: IFAD
Digital mapping along with local knowledge can be useful to identify climate-vulnerable hotspots
Heat waves likely to last ‘25 times longer’ in India by another 2-4 decades, says climate report
The heatwaves will last over five times longer if global temperature rise is constrained to about 2°C, says report launched ahead …
Climate crisis: Deforestation in southeast Asia mountains on the rise
Forests are being increasingly cut down on steeper slopes, which have a high forest carbon density relative to the lowlands