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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 …

Fossil fuels’ death-knell sounded at COP28 held in oil-rich UAE; Al Jaber takes credit for keeping 1.5ºC target alive

Experts slam final text as weak, inadequate, with loopholes, and not in accordance with science; hail historical first entry of …

COP28: Kolkata, 100 km from the Sundarbans, demands loss and damage fund support in Dubai

The demand may be echoed by other vulnerable global cities soon, particularly those in south Asia like Colombo, Dhaka and Karachi  

COP28: Initial text on Global Goal on Adaptation rejected by developing countries

Down To Earth’s Akshit Sangomla discusses the negotiations regarding the Global Goal on Adaptation

The challenge at COP28 really is to have clean language saying “phase out” all fossil fuels: Minal Pathak

Down To Earth talks to Minal Pathak, associate professor at Ahmedabad University and senior scientist of Working Group III of the …

Targeted methane mitigation can avoid 0.1°C warming in 2050, should be adopted with decarbonisation efforts: Report

These solutions are also estimated to be cost-effective, says IEA-UNEP 

Queen of rain no more: How Karnataka’s Agumbe lost to little-known Udupi towns

Nadpal and Mudradi received more rain than Agumbe this monsoon

What are ‘planetary boundaries’ and why should we care?

In six out of nine vital life support systems, we have blown well past the safe zone

Here are some ways to reduce carbon footprint of cement industry

More than 99 per cent of the greenhouse gases emitted from the manufacturing process is CO2

India unlikely to meet carbon sink commitment

The current rate of afforestation is lower than what is needed to achieve the target

Arctic sea ice cover hits its worst record for 2018

It is the sixth lowest ice cover ever, says NASA

COP27: Expert Group zeroes in on weak net zero targets; asks industries to speed up

Indian companies under scanner, prefer to play an wait-and-watch game

Infographic: How the Indian Himalayan region has been altered by climate change

The mean temperature of the Himalayas has gone up by 0.6°C in the past 30 years

Not so sweet: Honey production falls 40% in Bihar

Researchers have attributed the fall to erratic weather conditions in the state 

Mocha and the ever-growing fiasco we are pushing ourselves into

Will the Anthropocene be the shortest era in history?

Multiple troughs, La Nina: Why Bengaluru is flooding repeatedly this monsoon

City received large excess rainfall in 5 of 13 weeks this monsoon 

Hot nights due to climate change will increase death rate by six times: Study

Disrupted sleeping pattern can damage the immune system

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