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,…
Climate change threatens the rights of children. The UN just outlined the obligations states have to protect them
Indigenous children, their communities particularly vulnerable to climate change
World Cities Day: Climate change’s impact on major cities
Here are few of the major cities in the world that are fighting the dangers of climate change
G-20 countries deceive the world by promoting fossil gas production
Shifting reliance from one fossil fuel to a relatively lesser polluting fossil fuel will not lead to de-carbonization
Global warming likely to be in the range of 2.2-3.4°C by 2100, breaching limit set under Paris deal
While chance of cataclysmic levels of warming is miniscule, but achieving Paris climate deal’s objective more uncertain
How hot weather and climate change affect airline flights
Major airports around the world will see more frequent flight restrictions in the coming decades because of increasingly common hot temperatures
Current sea level rise three times faster than what was observed in 20th century
The study not only reveals the gross underestimation of sea level rise but also the acceleration underway
Pollutants invade remotest place on earth; Mariana Trench highly contaminated
Shrimplike crustaceans in Mariana and Kermadec trenches are contaminated with 50 times more toxic chemicals than crabs that survive in heavily …
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
Neanderthals died out 40,000 years ago, but there has never been more of their DNA on Earth
Many Europeans and Asians have between 1% and 4% Neanderthal DNA while African people south of the Sahara have almost zero
Global warming is real: Research predicts 6-fold rise in fish mass die-offs by 2100
These die-offs may have detrimental effects on the functioning of our ecosystem and food security