Countries launch measures to curb greenhouse gases more potent than CO2

A five-step action plan will target pollutants like methane and black carbon

Loud and unclear

A monsoon warning

COP28 offered important outcomes, but not enough to meet Paris goals

Funds collected for Loss and Damage are too little to compensate for impact of climate disasters

IEA World Energy Outlook 2023: Fossil fuel demand to peak by 2030, urgent investment shift needed

Report calls for a balancing act, recommends maintaining fossil fuels backing

Cricket among sports to be hit by climate change: Study

Excess heat, rising sea levels, changes in precipitation may derail global sports

Managing food demand key to containing emissions, damage to environment, says study

Sub-Saharan Africa will see the biggest increase in food demand

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Shale gas: dubious game-changer

Biocharcoal helps check global warming

Zero-carbon nation

Poor man’s burden

Developing countries shoulder the clean-up responsibility, yet it is not enough

Over 80% people felt climate change-induced heat in July 2023

Temperature records set on all continents in July, including areas in winter

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Budget 2015 proves a dampener for climate action

Finance minister talks about Clean Energy Fund, but forgets crop insurance

The new dirty deal

Equity for all

Single drops of water make the mighty economy

Aila prompts exodus

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Himalayas on fire: Uttarakhand recorded maximum fire alerts countrywide in snowless January

December and January have been extremely dry in state; concerns being expressed about water availability, agri-economy and tourism in the days ahead

Himalayas on fire: Himachal’s tinder-dry forests, on its brown snowless hills, burn due to low moisture

Forest fire incidents have increased seven times this year; there have been 2,050 incidents in 3 months, data shows

MoEFCC submission to UNFCCC shows agricultural emissions are still rising

Agriculture emissions rose by 3.2 per cent from 408 MtCO2e in 2016 to 221 MtCO2e in 2019

2023 in a blink: What were emission footprints of transport, manufacturing sectors this year

Cement, steel and aluminium plants led to 108 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent of emissions 

Century’s largest flood strikes Far North Queensland in the wake of Storm Jasper

The tropical cyclone witnessed by Queensland in Australia during December and during an El Nino year “is not normal”; such …