Climate change has made the record breaking heat waves in India and Pakistan over 100 times more likely, and also…
India is facing a water and food crisis, exacerbated by extreme climate cycles such as the current heatwave, during which…
A tormenting heatwave swept through the national capital and its neighbouring areas on Sunday with the mercury leaping to 49.2…
Super cyclones, known as hurricanes or typhoons in different parts of the world, are among the most destructive weather events…
In 1992, three UN conventions were established to combat climate change, biodiversity loss and desertification. As their contours were being…
Deforestation detected in the Brazilian Amazon broke all records for the month of April, and that followed similar new records…
An extreme heatwave in India and Pakistan has left more than a billion people in one of the most densely…
The heatwave currently bearing down on the Indian subcontinent has made headlines around the world for the threat it poses…
On colour-coded temperature charts, the Indian subcontinent is currently a sickly mauve. An unusually intense heatwave is threatening millions of…
Scientists have identified 100 pressing research questions on climate change and water resources in the Upper Indus Basin (UIB), which…
Sunning herself on her porch in Koti – a village 28km from the Himachal Pradesh state capital Shimla in the…
During the Antarctic summer, air temperatures get warm enough to melt snow and ice on the surface of the great…
Insects are critical to the future of our planet. They help to keep pest species under control and break down…
Every day, the district hospital in Champawat needs at least 67,500 litres of water to function. But as water becomes…
For days at a time in early April, people and animals across large swathes of India and Pakistan lay gasping…
India has always been a land of brutal but predictable weather. Now, the climate crisis is expected to change that,…
The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body that brings together the world’s leading…
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday warned that time is running out for countries, corporations and others to adopt critical…
A UN-backed panel was set to release a highly anticipated scientific report on Monday on international efforts to curb climate…
Historically, policies to combat climate change have focused on mitigation: reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. This has not worked. The…
"There was a red cloud in the sky the other morning,” says Pemba Bhuti Sherpa, a yak herder in the…
The intense heatwave that has gripped large parts of India so early this summer is proof that this is the…
We are currently witnessing the beginning of a global food crisis, driven by the knock-on effects of a pandemic and…
Sprawling 5.5 million square kilometres, the Amazon rainforest is the largest of its kind and home to about one in…
In August 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its report of working group 1. It reiterated that…
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