Climate Change May Turn Thar Desert Green By Century’s End: Study
A study suggests that the Thar Desert, which is known for its arid expanse, could undergo a transformative shift because...
Climate Change
Getting The Bread: What Is The Environmental Impact Of Wheat?
The story of wheat as a cultivated crop is nearly as old as that of human civilization itself. Few plants...
Tsunami Pushes Native Languages To The Brink
A devastating natural disaster 19 years ago has pushed the native language of a tiny island in the Bay of...
How Climate Change Is Killing Languages
On 2 May 2023, Pauline Stensgar, of Keller, Washington State, died at the age of 96. Her language died with...
Threat From Climate Change Reshaping Some Religious Beliefs
The famous pilgrimage site of Kedarnath, located in the central Himalayas of India, is believed to be a sacred land....
India, Nepal Overlook Environmental Issues In Hydropower Deals
This June, monsoon rains wreaked havoc in Nepal’s hilly regions, but the country’s southern lowlands were instead reeling from a...
Climate Change Might Trigger More Volcanic Eruptions, Earthquakes
Earth’s climate is changing rapidly. In some areas, escalating temperatures are increasing the frequency and likelihood of wildfires and drought....
How Board Games Can Get People Involved In Climate Action
The dangerous wildfires burning across the world show us how real the climate crisis has become. When we see these...
ICEs vs. EVs: Learning From The Past To Boost Sustainability
Lithium mining environmental footprint at Salar del Hombre Muerto, Argentina. Demand for EVs is driving up sourcing of a host...
Sacred Fossils Are Getting Rarer To Find Due To Climate Change
For more than 2,000 years, Hinduism, Buddhism and the shamanic Himalayan religion of Bon have venerated Shaligrams – ancient fossils...
Do Phrases Like ‘Global Boiling’ Help Or Hinder Climate Action?
Last week, United Nations General Secretary António Guterres coined an arresting new term. The era of global warming has ended,...
A Decade After The Floods, Is Kedarnath Safer?
The Kedarnath Valley, located above 3,500 metres in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, has changed significantly since it was...
Flooding Caused Greatest Economic Damages In Asia In 2022
The Asian region was battered by extreme events driven by climate change, with flooding emerging as a particularly frequent and...
Antarctica Is Missing A Chunk Of Sea Ice Bigger Than Greenland!
Deadly heatwaves, raging wildfires and record global temperatures are upon us. But far from the flames, at the southernmost tip...
‘We Must Never Assume That A Healthy Planet Is Automatic’
In June 2023, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced Monica P. Medina as its new President and CEO. Medina is...
Four Factors Driving 2023’s Extreme Heat And Climate Disasters
Between the record-breaking global heat and extreme downpours, it’s hard to ignore that something unusual is going on with the...
How To Manage The Global Land Squeeze?
Rising population and demand for food, feed, fiber and fuel are increasing competition for land. For example, new WRI research projects that...
Himalayas Losing Glaciers, Snow, More Hazards In Offing: New Study
“As scientists, what worries us the most is the scale at which the glaciers are melting in the Himalayas,” said...
As Heat Waves Increase, Are India’s Heat Action Plans Effective?
The April heat wave in South and Southeast Asia this year was detrimental to vulnerable and disadvantaged communities, noted a...
Himalayan Communities And The Necessity Of Impact-Based Forecasting
When water levels rose in a tributary of the Koshi river during the 2019 monsoon, villagers of Launiya in Nepal’s...
Is It Really Hotter Now Than Any Time In The Past 100,000 Years?
As scorching heat grips large swaths of the Earth, a lot of people are trying to put the extreme temperatures...
India’s Tiger Reserves Have Helped In The Fight Against Climate Change
New research shows that India’s tiger conservation policy has not only helped in preserving and increasing tiger populations, but it...
Kerala’s Dwindling Mangroves Need Concerted Effort In Conservation
When 1000 kilometres of mangrove tidal wetland vegetation, along the shoreline of Australia’s remote Gulf of Carpentaria, died en masse...
What El Niño Means For The World’s Perilous Climate Tipping Points
The UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has confirmed it: El Niño conditions have arrived and are expected to become moderate...
Global Warming Shocks The Tibetan Plateau
In May this year, I followed the Hengduan mountains into the south-east of Tibet. Now, in June, I’m passing through...
