Climate Change

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Time Is Running Out For Climate Adaptation In The Himalayas

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released the second of its three-part report in the 6th assessment cycle.…

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Irreversible Climate Impacts Are Already Here: IPCC Report

Adaptation to climate change impacts will become impossible unless greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are controlled far better, and this must…

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The River In North India Being Hollowed Out For Concrete

It was around 5 AM on 19 October 2021, dark, drizzling and cold in the foothills of the Himalayas. “A…

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What Is IPCC, What Will Its Next Report Cover?

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, is a scientific body created in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization…

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Fears For Farming As Groundwater Plummets In Northern India

At the recent polls in Punjab and western Uttar Pradesh, free electricity for groundwater irrigation was a major promise of…

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UN To Finalise Report On How Warming Hits Home Hard

Scientists and governments have met to finalise a major UN report on how global warming disrupts people’s lives, their natural…

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Pollution Causing More Deaths Than Covid-19: UN Expert

Pollution by states and companies is contributing to more deaths globally than COVID-19, a U.N. environmental report published on Tuesday…

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Mt Everest’s Highest Glacier To Disappear By Middle Of This Century

Researchers in Nepal have warned that the highest glacier on top of Mount Everest could disappear by the middle of…

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UN Meet Sets Sights On Global Plastics Treaty

At a key UN summit in Nairobi this month, governments will discuss the path towards the first global treaty to…

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Measuring Climate Change: It’s Not Just Heat, It’s Humidity

When it comes to measuring global warming, humidity, not just heat, matters in generating dangerous climate extremes, a new study…

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In 20 Years, Greenland Ice Sheet Loses Enough Water To Submerge US

Greenland's immense ice sheet has lost enough ice in the past 20 years to submerge the entire United States in…

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‘Plastics Curb Is Key To Climate Change Fight’

Progressive reduction of fossil fuel-based plastics is crucial to tackling climate change, the EU's top environmental official said, ahead of…

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Women’s Leadership Is Key To Climate Action

At the COP26 climate summit, the leaders of Estonia, Tanzania and Bangladesh were the first to sign the Glasgow Women’s Leadership…

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‘Watershed’ Puts Inequality At Heart Of India’s Water Crisis

Watershed: How We Destroyed India’s Water and How We Can Save It is a powerful follow-up to Mridula Ramesh’s earlier…

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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 is worse off in many…

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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. At COP26, India made a…

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Australia Records Highest Temp In 62 Years

Another day, another heat record. Australian authorities warned people to stay indoors on Friday as a severe heatwave along the…

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Activists Behind Shell Climate Verdict To Target 30 MNCs

The Dutch wing of environmental group Friends of the Earth, which won a landmark court victory against Royal Dutch Shell…

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Bihar: Women, Floods And Increasing Violence

After devastating floods struck the northeastern Indian state of Bihar in August 2017, the country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, conducted…

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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, a crucial meeting of the…

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Pandemic Lessons For The Climate Change Age

If 2020 was the year the world woke up to the threat of a global pandemic, in 2021 we had…

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Climate Change & Disasters On The Third Pole

In many ways, 2021 marked a new threshold for climate change-related disasters. Global headlines were monopolised by incidents of extreme…

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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 sugarcane farm to start a…

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Floods Eat Away At Assam’s Indigenous Land

Hemram Pegu has been forced to rebuild his home at least eight times in the past decade, shifting it a…

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The Lament Of The Brahmaputra Riverbank

Songs have always chronicled social, political, historic, geographical, cultural and environmental change. Many popular singers have responded to the climate…

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