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2023 is poised to become the hottest year, with October already setting a new climate record
The October of 2023 was the hottest ever, further solidifying the expectation that 2023 will break temperature records
Earth records hottest day ever on July 3, 2023; record broken the very next day
Unfortunately, July 3 might only be the first in a series of records that might be broken this year itself
How the world’s largest iceberg broke off in Antarctica
While regular shearing off of large chunks of the ice shelves is part of a natural cycle, some shelves have experienced rapid break up in the …
Arctic has warmed thrice as much as the planet in the last 50 years: Report
Cold spells lasting more than 15 days have almost completely disappeared from the Arctic since 2000, according to a new report
जलवायु परिवर्तन 21वीं सदी की सबसे बड़ी चुनौती - युवा और जिज्ञासुओं के लिए
Earth is getting warmer. The climate is changing, faster than ever before. Why? What is the science behind this?
Lonely in Anthropocene
Humans have to be the point of solution for the planet’s uncontrolled slip into an abyss of ecological disaster
Climate Change Quiz: How much do you know about the climate crisis?
The Climate Change Quiz is a step towards creating awareness on the climate crisis. Take the quiz and check out your climate change quotient.
Oceans are warming at a faster rate than predicted
Oceans absorb 90% of the warming caused by human carbon emissions. A new analysis by University of California, Berkeley, suggests that oceans are …
What is global warming doing to ocean floors?
A new study done by researchers at Montreal-based Mcgill University has found that acidification is also rapidly dissolving the ocean floor.
Social cost of CO2 emission
India’s country-level social cost of carbon emission was estimated to be the highest at $86 per tonne of CO2. It means the Indian economy …
World’s largest ice shelf melting rapidly due to solar heating of ocean surface
If this situation continues, sea levels would rise up to 60 metres by 2050 and the ocean would engulf coastal cities across the globe
Cyclone Idai: Rich countries are to blame for disasters like this – here’s how they can make amends
It is not only the intensity of environmental disasters that makes them devastating – poverty also has a huge bearing on how things play out
Drawdown
For the first time ever, an international coalition of leading researchers, scientists and policymakers has come together to offer a set of …
The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World
In a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. It can no longer be separated from society.
Climate change and small islands
Inhabited by nearly 4.5 million people, even after 70 years of Independence Sundarbans is without proper roads and surface transport, drinking …
Sunita Narain in conversation with Amitav Ghosh
In his new book, novelist Amitav Ghosh examines our inability-at the level of literature, history and politics-to grasp the scale and violence of …
Freak Weather and Climate Change 2015: In Conversation with Shreeshan Venkatesh
The year 2015 will be remembered for 'freak weather' events all around the world. Are such events here to stay? A discussion with Science …
International Mountain Day: Highland people to face vagaries of weather, food insecurity
Released on the occasion of Mountain Day, two reports highlight climate threats to high altitude areas
We need to convince the world about 1.5 degrees when there is still a lot of quibbling about 2
J.R. Nereus O Acosta Secretary Office of the Presidential Adiviser for Environmental Protection, Philippine on the new momentum at COP21 to …
Impact of ocean warming on monsoon
Roxy Mathew Koll from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune talks about the effects of ocean warming on the Indian Monsoons.
'India is likely to experience strong relative impacts of climate change'
Overexploitation of groundwater reservoirs and dependence of surface water reservoirs on monsoon rainfall may lead to decreasing freshwater …
Kyoto's ghost will return
If predictions of global warming turn out to be true, the ludicrous decisions taken at the Kyoto conference will prove very costly to the world
Hot and anxious
Global climate change is today a spectre which allows for no ostriches. Scientific data is piling up to indict human activity as the source of …
