One of the major gaps in our weather observational system is over the oceans: Elena Manaenkova
Former WMO Deputy Secretary General, Elena Manaenkova speaks to Down To Earth about extreme weather, the global cryosphere and emissions on World …
Carbon capture plants are underperforming — why are we so optimistic about them?
IPCC noted that CCS has the highest cost and lowest possible contribution to net emission reduction in both energy and industry sectors
Why did eastern India receive heavy rainfall on March 20? A cocktail of weather systems is the answer
The India Meteorological Department had listed 5 different weather systems that were active over mainland India on March 20; there was also an …
DTE Coverage: WMO State of the Global Climate 2023 Report
Last year broke all records; DTE deconstructs document's main points
Climate crisis everywhere, all at once: Record-breaking temperature in 10 countries across 4 continents
Indonesia, South Africa, Gabon, Kenya, South Sudan, Algeria, Tunisia, Guyana, Colombia and Rio burning up
The year 2023 smashed several climate records, with some being ‘chart-busting’: WMO report
Greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, sea level rise, Antarctic sea ice cover and glacier retreat reached …
WMO highlights socioeconomic impacts of 2023 weather, and climate hazards, intertwined with inequality crisis
Extreme weather events hit many parts of the world in 2023, affecting water and food security as well as human welfare, report by …
Scaling up private finance is crucial to bridge funding gap for climate change projects
India’s climate pledges need a staggering $10 trillion financial investment, about three times the country’s GDP
Climate-friendly beef? Argentina’s new certification could help reduce livestock emissions — if it’s done right
Certification will only work if consumers are willing to pay a higher price for carbon-neutral, or even just climate-friendly, meat and dairy products
Simply Put: Endangered species
There will be more human-bull shark interactions in future; the species is adapting to warming seas, and thriving
Five-fold increase in the abundance of juvenile bull sharks over the last 20 years in Mobile Bay coincides with increasing sea surface temperatures
Britain’s seas are warming from John O’Groats to The Lizard, data collected by all-female rowboat crew finds
Kent, Thames Estuary, East Anglia, Yorkshire & the Humber, Northumberland and Scottish Lowlands notable exceptions
Pacific Islanders have long drawn wisdom from the Earth, the sky and the waves. Research shows the science is behind them
Much of traditional knowledge in the Pacific for coping with climate change is scientifically plausible
Study charts indirect economic losses due to climate change-induced supply disruptions, calls for collaboration
India is likely to be affected directly by high temperatures and indirectly due to close links with countries severely impacted by heat stress
Climate change: Over a million farming households face acute food shortage in Zambia, warns Oxfam
A severe drought, worsened by climate change & El Nino, has caused massive crop failures for half of the nation’s planted area
Scaling sustainable food production in face of climate change is the defining challenge of our times
Localised and climate-smart agriculture can help preserve agrobiodiversity and reshape the larger narrative of responsible food production &…
Betel cultivation is in danger due to climate change
Losses in betel cultivation have reached such an extent in the last few decades that most farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s Mahoba have given …
Climate change matters to more and more people — and could be a deciding factor in the 2024 election
Between the 2016 and the 2020 presidential elections, climate change became increasingly important to voters
Major droughts make women 35 per cent more likely to be underweight: New study
Teenage pregnancy & intimate partner violence also grew after drought episodes
Earth is warming in a cycle that runs millions of years — and it’s linked to Mars
Researchers find geologic evidence in deep sea linking a 2.4-million-year cycle called astronomical grand cycles
Migration out of climate change
Disaster-induced migration outstrips that due to conflicts
Climate change can force 216 million people to migrate within their own countries by 2050
Decisive collective action can reduce climate migration by as much as 80%
Rising to the call of climate change
Some stories of spectacular adaptation to climate change in dufferent parts of India
Simply Put: All talk, no walk
Drafting the Paris agreement: Lack of progress in spin-off groups a cause for concern
Parties urged to engage bilaterally and speed up negotiations on the draft agreement