Global warming will increase ozone depletion
Simulated climate models show increasing carbon dioxide and chlorine emissions can drastically alter weather conditions and lead to the formation …
Is environment on the agenda?
With a recession-hit economy to revive, it remains to be seen how much priority the environment will get when the new administration takes over …
Freezing the Green fridge
Despite environment-friendly refrigerators making the grade, manufacturers are hesitant to introduce them commercially.
Unmasking the heat
The weather machine seems to have gone into overdrive. Scientists assert that the rise in temperature is unprecedented, at least since the 15th …
Getting to the core
Drilling of ice cores in the Himalayan glaciers reveal that global warming is altering climate patterns
Climate change affects world's lakes
By 2080, the world's lakes will experience a temperature change of up to 6.7c caused by greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study by the uk-…
Stalagamite weather report
The result obtained from stalagamites -- supplemented by past temperature records, type of vegetation, data from the oceans such as the growth …
Ice does not lie
Says the eminent Alaskan scientist Maynard Miller. manu n kulkarni visits this land of the midnight sun to know what causes its glaciers to …
Waterworks India: Chewang Norphell
Global warming is taking its toll on the trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh. Mountains that were completely decked with snow are now barren. …
What WMO report says on climate trends: Drivers and impacts
2015-2021 will be the warmest years on record, the World Meteorological Organization report flagged
World leaders come together, demand price on carbon ahead of Paris climate talks
Carbon pricing is an effective way to decarbonise the global economy, feel alliance members
Vietnam proposes legalising use of tiger parts in traditional medicines
International community, activists say move will undo tiger conservation efforts
Everything you need to know about COP27
The 27th international conference is synonymous with climate change. Here is everything you need to know about it.
Paris finance meet: What is the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact about?
Discussions on how to reform Multilateral Development Banks (MDB) to better serve the needs of the Global South will be in spotlight
Plastic-free planet: Geopolitics slows progress on Day 1 of Paris meet
No consensus on election of representatives left little time to discuss draft rules
Why climate negotiators should look at wind energy prospects
Wind power could meet 26 per cent of global electricity demand and help save 6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide annually by the end of mid-century,…
Daily temperature extremes affect fire activity in Sierra Nevada: Study
Number of wildfires in the region could rise by as much as 83% by the 2040s; the area burned could climb 92%
Global warming led to frequent, extreme melting of ice in Greenland over past 40 years
3.5 trillion tonnes of ice melted and flowed into the ocean over the past 10 years, raising sea levels and flood risk globally, according to a …
What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words
Heads of oil industry had been privately informed by their leaders that their products would alter the climate of the planet long ago; they …
‘Drought-like’ Nagaland stares at water scarcity, low harvest
Seven of Nagaland’s 12 districts had ‘deficient’ rainfall till August 19
Climate emergency: It is time to prepare for severe floods that will hit South Asia
Models show that for a 3°C rise in mean temperature, number of people annually affected in South Asia can more than triple, disrupting lives …
IPCC Report 2021: What do we expect in future?
The rise in average surface temperature beyond 1.5 or 2°C will be breached much earlier; extreme weather events may become worse with time
A study in green: Coaching centre in Bihar gives free classes to poor in exchange for saplings
The institute has helped plant 110,000 saplings since it was founded in 2008
Climate crisis: Is Earth destabilising?
Until now, it was all climate change and global warming to us. But the contention that that is just one among the others, is a great revelation
Mexico braces for flash floods, landslides as Hurricane Orlene barrels in
Orlene is expected to pass Mexico’s Islas Marias islands before its landfall on the coast of mainland Mexico