Reconstructing atmospheric history
Old paintings can provide information about the composition of the atmosphere of bygone ages. When a volcano erupted in Indonesia in 1815, …
Flat in 20 days
Global climatic anomalies allied with local weather conditions produced the most freakish hailstorms in central and north India in February and …
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.
Life in maars: Why it’s worth protecting a spectacular fossil site NZ almost lost to commercial mining interests
Foulden Maar, one of New Zealand’s most exceptional fossil sites, was also of interest to mining company
Best way to remove carbon: Sequestering it in its natural sinks
To curb desertification, we need to restore degraded soil via forestry, improve vegetative cover, enhance water use efficiency, reduce soil …
Fossil footprints give glimpse of how ancient climate change drove the rise of reptiles
A set of fossils that lay forgotten in a museum are revealing new secrets about Britain's prehistoric wildlife
Remote Sensing: the biggest tool to study climate change
Jadu Dash is a professor of remote sensing at the faculty of social, human and mathematical sciences within geography and environment at the …
The Galileo gambit and other stories: the three main tactics of climate denial
One Nation Senator-elect Malcolm Roberts lauds Galileo as a hero who turned scientific consensus on its head. But the 'Galileo gambit' is just …
India has been getting warmer continuously, consistently and rapidly
A new analysis by the Centre for Science and Environment has indicated that India is warming at a much faster rate than thought previously
Unmasking con-science
Incorporating dark humour, wit and cartoons, The Madhouse Effect lays bare the obfuscation of climate science deniers
Unknown Future
The conference of parties to the un climate convention in Nairobi went along predictable lines.
Climate models predict the world will be 'anomalously warm' until 2022
Research showed that over the next two years, it is 64% likely to be anomalously warm
Earth's rain belts may shift farther north, claims study
A redistribution of the Earth’s water belts could affect water availability for many across the world
One of 2023’s most extreme heatwaves is happening in the middle of winter
A persistent area of high pressure, or anticyclone, has lingered to the east of the Andes, which appears to be the key driver of the intense heat
Book Digest: Women who saved the planet, COVID-19 vaccine route and more
Role of fisheries in alleviating malnutrition to the mining sector’s contribution to SDGs, DTE tracks new books on environment and …
CoP-9 in Milan: A Fashionable Trend for Climate Agreements
What will we see at the ninth conference of parties (CoP-9) to the UN climate change convention? Three things come to my mind. By Agus P. Sari
The hockey-stick curve
The problem of and solutions to climate change. The imperatives of transition on the eve of the Bali meet
What is a pre-industrial climate and why does it matter?
Different definitions of pre-industrial and natural climate make it harder to synthesise the results from individual studies
Global warming and El Nino caused record temperature in Southeast Asia
While El Nino triggered the heat, global warming pushed the temperatures to a record-breaking level in 2016, finds study
Meet El Niño’s cranky uncle that could send global warming into hyperdrive
The IPO’s pattern is similar to El Nino, which has led climate scientists to think that the two are strongly linked
Cold and calculating: what the two different types of ice do to sea levels
What matters most for sea levels is how much ice slides off the land and melts in the sea
IPCC in for change of climate
Big changes are expected as the global body acts on review committee’s advice at plenary meet in Busan, South Korea
Dragon in the room: Why China’s target of carbon neutrality is misleading
China contributed 27% to the world’s overall global emissions in 2019, surpassing the United States
2020 Climate Targets: The Paris Agreement legally requires better targets this year
Climate justice can grow out of science and law, but it requires political leadership to take these twin dictates seriously
New centre to help farmers become climate resilient
The centre would focus on real-time structured surveillance for insect-pests and diseases using GPS-tagging techniques