Dengue outbreak in Brazil prompting emergency health measures
As the world gets increasingly warmer and wetter, mosquito-related disease outbreaks are predicted to rise and spread
Chile forest fires: Why does Chile face deadly forest fires every year?
Chile has been undergoing a decade-long drought season since 2010
Icon of the Seas: Is the world’s largest cruise ship environment friendly?
It runs on LNG and can leak some of it directly into the atmosphere as methane, a greenhouse gas worse for the climate in the short term …
पृथ्वी पर मंडरा रहे तिहरे संकट से मुकाबले के लिए नैरोबी में जुटी दुनिया
182 देशों से सात हजार से अधिक प्रतिनिधि इस बैठक में हिस्सा लेने के लिए जुटे हैं, जोकि शुक्रवार तक चलेगी
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
हर साल भीषण गर्मी की वजह से आमदनी का पांच प्रतिशत नुकसान झेल रहा है गरीब किसान: एफएओ
भारत सहित 23 देशों पर एक लाख से अधिक ग्रामीण परिवारों पर किए गए सर्वे के बाद एफएओ ने रिपोर्ट जारी की
सर्दियों में नहीं पड़ी ठंड व बर्फ, हिमालयी राज्यों में बढ़ती गर्मी दे रही है खतरे का संकेत
ग्लोबल वार्मिंग के कारण बढते तापमान से पश्चिमी विक्षोभ कमजोर हो रहे हैं
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 7, 2024)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
What did the last IPCC report say
Before IPCC releases the special report on global warming, take a look at how the panel has warned us before
The 21st century lore of Atacama
A never before weather experience in Atacama Desert in Chile in 2017 was not a freak development, but part of a planetary level change sweeping …
IPCC Special Report: India under constant threat of cyclones, coastal flooding
This report emphasises on what several scientists and researchers have been saying for a while now
What we know about Special IPCC report
The world’s biggest peer review report on climate change is expected to be the most controversial and political of recent times
What are Western Disturbances? How do they impact rain and snowfall in India?
It is a non-monsoonal precipitation pattern that induces low pressure systems in the lower layers of the atmosphere; this, ultimately, causes …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 19, 2023)
भारतीय नदी घाटियों में तेज वर्षा के पैटर्न में वृद्धि से शहरों में बढ़ेगा बाढ़ का सिलसिला: अध्ययन
बनारस हिंदू विश्वविद्यालय के महामना सेंटर ऑफ एक्सीलेंस इन क्लाइमेट चेंज की रिसर्च रिपोर्ट में कई चौंकाने वाले तथ्य सामने आए हैं
US, China and India: Top carbon emitters to face the biggest economic losses
India, which emits more than 2.4 billion metric tonnes of CO2, is already bearing an economic loss of $206 billion
Deserts not deserted, but full of floral, faunal activity
These unforgiving lands may appear lifeless only to the unacquainted, but they are a unique and living ecosystem
Global climate finance flows for 2015-16 increased by 17%: UN report
The report highlights that a large part of climate finance continues to go towards efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions
Kolkata, Karachi to face increased threat of heatwaves, warns IPCC report
The report adds that megacities across the globe could become more heat-stressed by 2050
How do extreme weather events lead to increase in child marriages?
Droughts, floods and other extreme weather events by intensify gender inequality and poverty, causing a spurt in child, early and forced …
Climate change constitutes double-edged sword for Africa: ECA
Climate change could usher in a new model of sustainable development, but, on other hand, it could also decimate African fragile economies
Climate vulnerability could make countries pay $168 billion more in interest on debts
In the past 10 years, extreme weather events cost developing countries over $62 billion in higher external interest payments
Mayors of 9 major cities support #FridaysForFuture
Teenager's climate protest leads to thousands of schools strikes in 106 countries
UNFCCC calls for transformational change to fight climate crisis
Countries have also been urged to design and implement policies in line with the Paris Agreement goals
We need to act NOW: UN climate change body turns 25
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change celebrated its 25th anniversary on 21 March, 2019. Here's what UN Climate Change …