It is a rocky, uneven path down to the spring where the women of Damthang village in South Sikkim go…
The first ever draft resolution to include climate change in the mandate of the United Nations Security Council was vetoed…
The rapid intensification that turned this week's Typhoon Rai into the strongest storm to hit the Philippines this year surpassed…
Glaciers in the Himalayas are melting at an "exceptional" rate because of global warming, threatening the water supply of millions…
(Book Review by Joydeep Gupta) I did not ‘like’ The Nutmeg’s Curse by Amitav Ghosh. I have a strong suspicion…
(The Conversation: with Dan Lowry, Ice Sheet & Climate Modeller, GNS Science; Mario Krapp, Environmental Data Scientist, GNS Science; Nick…
Many Asian countries made net-zero pledges at COP26 in Glasgow last month, but most were vague and opaque. The big…
Following another year of stark climate impacts in the Arctic, scientists warned on Tuesday of a new scourge hitting the…
Extreme weather events in 2021 shattered records around the globe. Hundreds died in storms and heatwaves. Farmers struggled with drought,…
Thirty years ago, Vanuatu first brought the harms being caused by climate change to the international community’s attention. As the…
"Regeneration" is a buzzword in the agriculture sector and beyond. It’s the subject of a Netflix documentary, Kiss the Ground,…
When Cyclone Bhola hit what is now present-day Bangladesh in 1970, it killed 300,000 to 500,000 people. Among the dead…
Between 2000 and 2019, over 7,000 disasters were recorded worldwide, an 83% rise on the previous two decades. There was…
Last month at COP26 in Glasgow, more than 100 countries pledged to reduce global methane emissions by 30% by the…
The United Nations is predicting that a record 274 million people, who together would amount to the world's fourth most-populous…
Scientists have unveiled plans to map the world's huge underground webs of fungi for the first time, to identify hotspots…
In late winter 2020, glaciologist Sudip Thakuri visited Kalinchowk, a peak in the Himalayas around 144 km west of Kathmandu.…
The oil and gas industry risks a huge workforce shortage as more than half of the workers in the sector…
After running over by a day, negotiators at COP26 finally reached agreement on a “Glasgow Climate Pact” on 13 November.…
The population of Mundaghat village in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh has come down to half of what it…
(The Conversation: By Dana M Bergstrom, Principal Research Scientist, University of Wollongong and Shavawn Donoghue, Adjunct Researcher, University of Tasmania)…
Little more than one percent of 5,000 big companies globally are making substantial disclosures of their climate risks, while more…
As the world warms, there is an urgent need to find ways to keep people cool. This year, several deadly…
All is said and done at the U.N. climate talks, and the ink on the COP26 agreement is dry, but…
The UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) drew to a close yesterday, Friday, November 12. When it began, almost two weeks…
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