Ukraine: How The Global Fertiliser Shortage Will Affect Food
We are currently witnessing the beginning of a global food crisis, driven by the knock-on effects of a pandemic and...
Climate Change
Amazon Rainforest: On The Verge Of Collapse?
Sprawling 5.5 million square kilometres, the Amazon rainforest is the largest of its kind and home to about one in...
Opinion: How Do We Adapt To An Intensified Water Cycle?
In August 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its report of working group 1. It reiterated that...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
‘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...
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...
‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
