Ocean seeding fails

Plants have a new date with flowering

Soils are breathing faster

The list of potential carbon emitters keeps growing

Warming up to kill

Deaths, diseases to increase with rising temperatures: WHO

Study links climate change with wheat blast; warns crop yield could drop by 75% in South America, Africa by 2050

Wheat blast-prone locations could increase due to climate impact; global wheat production could drop by 13%

Entrepreneur Nikhil Kamath announces Rs 50 lakh for climate change charity

A recent podcast highlighted global shift in energy system and opportunities it provides to young entrepreneurs

Global heating to put 600 million Indians at ‘greatest future risk’: Study

Nearly a billion people could be protected from dangerous heat if countries manage to contain global heating to 1.5C, the threshold of the Paris …

World’s top 21 fossil fuel companies owe $5,444 billion in climate reparations, study says

Coal India Limited was exempted from paying for damages as India’s Gross National Income per capita income is below $4000, researchers said

After catastrophic drought for 6 years, flash floods in Somalia displace 200,000

Floods by ongoing Gu rains destructed Belet Weyne district, Hirshabelle State and Baardheere in Jubaland State, says UN

April 2023 records great variations in temperatures globally: Copernicus

World’s fourth warmest April; 0.32°C  warmer than the 1991-2020 average

Climate Crisis: Adaptation limit reached in some parts of the world, shows IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report

The report calls for accelerated actions to bridge funding gap, challenges ‘myth of endless adaptation’

Getting out of fossils

Quickly ramping up cheaper finance should be JET-P’s focus so that the new energy future is clean

Climate change is a threat to rich and poor alike

From Miami and Puerto Rico to Barbuda and Havana, the devastation of 2017 hurricane season across Latin America and the Caribbean serves as a …

Climate change set to increase air pollution deaths by hundreds of thousands by 2100

A new study suggests climate change will cause changes to patterns of ground-level ozone and smog

Climate change could drive coastal food webs to collapse

Benefits of a boost in marine plant growth from increased carbon dioxide will be cancelled out by the increased stress to fish species

Kashmir gets warmer

Rising winter temperatures make rain and snowfall erratic in the valley, deplete streams

COP 22: India urges developed nations to adhere to the principle of 'Climate Justice'

Environment minister Anil Madhav Dave says developed nations need to provide effective finance, technology transfer and capacity building support

Current draft text “inequitable, weak and unambitious”, says CSE

The Delhi-based non-profit said that rich nations had been misappropriating the carbon space, leaving no chance for developing countries to …

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 …

5 days to CoP26: NDCs insufficient, climate finance unmet till 2023

Signals on key issues such as enhanced climate ambition and climate finance point to poor progress

Greta seeks honesty from world leaders at CoP 26

This story originally appeared in Reuters and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global media collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate …

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 

Five years after Paris: How countries’ climate policies match up to their promises, and who’s aiming for net zero emissions

So far, countries’ individual plans for how they will lower their greenhouse gas emissions don’t come close to adding up to the Paris …

Mass death decoded

Environmental contamination and extreme weather events are responsible for most die-offs among animals, a new study suggests

Why India needs to see climate change as urgent political issue

Privatising energy and agricultural sectors will bring India closer to its economic goals — but at the cost of its climate ones