Displacement burden on India due to extreme weather events

Natural disasters, primarily-extreme weather events, triggered the displacement of nearly 17.2 million worldwide in 2018. At 2.678 million, India …

Cyclone Fani: Act of God in Anthropocene?

Natural disasters as cyclones, its frequency and pace, must be directly linked to climate change

Climate change has worsened global economic inequality

Temperature changes have enriched cool countries like Norway and Sweden, while dragging down economic growth in warm countries such as India and …

Climate Equity: Whose CO₂ emissions are more than their share?

Climate change poses the greatest threat to those least responsible for it–generally people that are already vulnerable to deep-rooted …

No political will to fight global warming finds 2019 Climate Change Performance Index

Are countries doing enough to counter the effects of climate change? Apparently not! 

Clouds of confusion over monsoon's timely arrival

While extended range forecast shows some signs of an early onset, other meteorological conditions have shrouded the forecast in uncertainty

Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet

From Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate …

Mainstreaming Climate Co-Benefits in Indian Cities: Post-Habitat III Innovations and Reforms

The co-benefits approach can lead to significant improvements in the way societies use environmental resources and distribute their outputs.

Himalayan glaciers are receding faster than before

To understand their changing behaviour in the wake of climate change, Indian scientists have for the first time set up a high-altitude glaciology …

Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed ― and What It Means for Our Future

From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change.

Ice-free Arctic may happen much sooner than predicted so far: study

While Arctic sea ice volume and extent continue to dip each year, a new study has found out that salinity in snow cover affects accuracy of …

Climate Change: Sunita Narain on adaptation to the new normal

Sunita Narain's video-speech at the Water Research Commission Symposium 2017, in Boksburg, South Africa. She talks about the importance of water …

Can algae be a profitable solution for carbon capture?

Siddhanta Das, special secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, talks about using algae to capture carbon from industrial …

Are We Screwed?: How a New Generation is Fighting to Survive Climate Change

A declaration of resistance, and a roadmap for radical change, from the generation that will be most screwed by climate change.

Climate change, the hidden hand

Anthony McMichael takes us on a tour across epochs, showing how collapse of civilisations has roots in climate change

266 years of changing climate

June 2016 was the second warmest June in satellite temperature records, according to a press release by the University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH).…

'Indigenous communities are key stakeholders in the climate change talks'

Ekai Nabenyo, 24, is the founder and chair of the Lorengelup Community Development Initiative, Kenya. An ethnic Turkana tribesman, he talks to …

Diving in the Arctic

Dinesh C Sharma is the first Asian journalist to go to the Arctic to report on an ongoing international scientific expedition to study climate …

Ice Age heat waves might have killed mammoths, says study

Abrupt warming, which resembles the human-made global warming of today, may have driven the mammoths’ extinction

COP27 diary (November 16): ‘$100 billion in climate finance more of gesture from rich countries’

A round-up of what went on at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit

Parties at Bonn find ways to make draft text ‘balanced’

The text that was released on October 5 was supposed to be more clear, structured and concise

Doubts persist over Green Climate Fund taking off at Doha

Workshop on climate finance gives hope, but a lot of work remains to be done

Who's afraid of 2C?

All is not well: climate negotiations in a new avatar

Farmers need resilient value chains to combat climate impact

Emerging social entrepreneurs are helping restore forest and farmland ecosystems by supporting smallholder farmers without access and …