Climate change may be driving changes in India's northeast monsoon
In recent years, the shifting patterns of the southwest monsoon and its implications have been spoken about extensively, but the northeast …
Final warning
The influence of human activities on the climate is clear and growing. If left unchecked, global warming will have an irreversible impact on …
Trump must confront climate challenge, but will he?
People in the US must turn up the heat on Donald Trump so that he doesn’t water down Obama's environmental agenda
‘Ganga basin temperatures to rise by 1-2°C by 2050’
Eddy Moors, who heads the Earth System Sciences and Climate Change group at Alterra Wageningen University and Research Center in the Netherlands, …
COVID-19 tanked India’s carbon emissions, but stimulus will drive them up again
The Rs 90,000-crore stimulus for power distribution companies fails to consider emissions reductions
Anders Levermann on geopolitics of climate change
Professor at Germanys Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Anders Levermanns interests range from monsoon in India to glacier …
Amid hurricanes and wildfires, Trump gives science a cold shoulder
“I don’t think science knows actually. It’ll start getting cooler,” US President Donald Trump said during a briefing on …
Stop the killing fields
Farmers are in a terrible situation, with no water for crops, livestock or drinking. If we dismiss this year as a freak weather year, we will …
Climate change hits food production
Global warming has resulted in 20 per cent increase in price of wheat, maize, rice and soybean
President Biden will put US back on Obama’s climate trajectory: Holdren
VIDEO INTERVIEW: John Holdren, science advisor to Obama administration, lists 6 things he thinks Joe Biden would do on climate change
Chalk, cheese and climate change: What Trump and Biden think about the environment
While Democrat Biden has a balanced outlook, Republican Trump’s perspective is simply not in agreement with the global climate movement
‘Blue marble’: How half a century of climate change has altered the face of the Earth
A photo taken by NASA in December 1972 has become an icon of the global environmental movement
Exxon knew: Big Oil’s scientists documented accurate climate predictions since 1970s, 1980s
ExxonMobil publicly denied climate change, funded misinformation campaign, shows new paper
Avg global temperature can rise by 1.5°C in next 5 years: WMO report
Countries under 2015 Paris Agreement had agreed to try and limit average global temperature rise to below 2°C by the end of the century
Rice fields as carbon sinks
A study by Indian scientists finds lowland flooded rice ecosystems can store vast amounts of carbon but the jury is still out on whether these …
Climate change can affect diseases transmitted by insects, vectors: UN report
Humans are changing zoonotic disease systems and increasing their impact through habitat encroachment, human population pressure, the report said&…
The world can help its climate crisis — by giving more power to women
Climate change worsens women’s plight: When it causes natural resources to become scarce, traditional gender roles intensify
Warning from Leh
Leh cloudburst is unusual, say scientists. Such extreme events are rising. What’s wrong?
Nicholas Stern on politics of climate change
In 2006, Nicholas Stern former chief economist, World Bank and advisor to the UK government, wrote about the economic threat from climate …
Temperatures in India could rise by 4.4°C by 2100, says govt report
‘Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region’ predicts that monsoon rainfall could change by an average of 14% by 2100
Insect attacks affected 142 mn ha forest between 2003 and 2012: Report
The State of the World’s Forests report warned climate change will exacerbate wildfires and pest attacks in the future
Pray before you sow
2014 could be an El Niño year. This weather event has historically caused devastations across countries. Its mysterious nature is keeping …
The hockey-stick curve
The problem of and solutions to climate change. The imperatives of transition on the eve of the Bali meet
‘50 years of deception’: California sues five Big Oil companies for lying about climate change
Lawsuit against oil and gas companies for “creating, contributing and assisting in the creation of state-wide climate change-related harms …
Are humans increasingly responsible for extreme weather events?
Weather extremes are often so overwhelming that it is hard for us to imagine that we may actually be increasingly responsible for at least some …