UN Chief: World Worse Now Due To COVID-19, Climate, Conflict
As he starts his second term as U.N. secretary-general, Antonio Guterres has said the world…
Climate Change
Think In Systems To Deliver India’s Long-Term Climate Strategy
The 2015 Paris Agreement required countries to submit their long-term climate action strategies by 2020….
Australia Records Highest Temp In 62 Years
Another day, another heat record. Australian authorities warned people to stay indoors on Friday as…
Activists Behind Shell Climate Verdict To Target 30 MNCs
The Dutch wing of environmental group Friends of the Earth, which won a landmark court…
Bihar: Women, Floods And Increasing Violence
After devastating floods struck the northeastern Indian state of Bihar in August 2017, the country’s…
Lessons And Inspiration In The Fight To Save Asia’s Biodiversity
In 2021, nature once again fell down the political agenda. Faced with continued pandemic-related complications,…
Pandemic Lessons For The Climate Change Age
If 2020 was the year the world woke up to the threat of a global…
Climate Change & Disasters On The Third Pole
In many ways, 2021 marked a new threshold for climate change-related disasters. Global headlines were…
Hidden Water Crisis Behind India’s Dominance In Sugar Industry
On a cold morning in the early winter of 2019, Shekhar Chauhan reached his small…
Floods Eat Away At Assam’s Indigenous Land
Hemram Pegu has been forced to rebuild his home at least eight times in the…
The Lament Of The Brahmaputra Riverbank
Songs have always chronicled social, political, historic, geographical, cultural and environmental change. Many popular singers…
The Life Of A Researcher Studying Springs In The Himalayas
It is a rocky, uneven path down to the spring where the women of Damthang…
On Climate Justice, India Should Practise What It Preaches
The first ever draft resolution to include climate change in the mandate of the United…
Supertyphoon Rai ‘Exceeded All Predictions’
The rapid intensification that turned this week’s Typhoon Rai into the strongest storm to hit…
Himalayan Glaciers Melting At An ‘Exceptional Rate’: Study
Glaciers in the Himalayas are melting at an “exceptional” rate because of global warming, threatening…
‘The Nutmeg’s Curse’ Challenges Dominant View Of Development
(Book Review by Joydeep Gupta) I did not ‘like’ The Nutmeg’s Curse by Amitav Ghosh….
Major Collapse Of West Antarctica’s Ice Sheet Can Be Averted
(The Conversation: with Dan Lowry, Ice Sheet & Climate Modeller, GNS Science; Mario Krapp, Environmental…
Climate Action In 2022: What’s Next For South, Central And SE Asia?
Many Asian countries made net-zero pledges at COP26 in Glasgow last month, but most were…
Ships In Arctic Are Leaving Behind Garbage, Warn Scientists
Following another year of stark climate impacts in the Arctic, scientists warned on Tuesday of…
Climate Change Worsened Extreme Weather Events In 2021
Extreme weather events in 2021 shattered records around the globe. Hundreds died in storms and…
Polluters Risk Litigation If They Fail To Address Loss And Damage
Thirty years ago, Vanuatu first brought the harms being caused by climate change to the…
Explainer: What Is Regenerative Agriculture?
“Regeneration” is a buzzword in the agriculture sector and beyond. It’s the subject of a…
How B’desh Is Beating The Odds On Climate Disaster Deaths
When Cyclone Bhola hit what is now present-day Bangladesh in 1970, it killed 300,000 to…
UNOCHA Says Current Warming Trajectory Will Lead To Humanitarian Crisis
Between 2000 and 2019, over 7,000 disasters were recorded worldwide, an 83% rise on the…
Why India Is Neglecting Its Methane Problem
Last month at COP26 in Glasgow, more than 100 countries pledged to reduce global methane…