Climate Crisis: 2023 Hottest Year, Earth Shatters Global Temp Record
Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world's agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of...
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India’s Emissions Will Rebound Post-2030: IMF
India’s current policies may help achieve 2030 emission targets, but there may be a rebound in greenhouse gas emissions post-2030,...
Explainer: What Are Carbon Markets?
Carbon markets put a price on carbon and facilitate its trade to incentivise emissions reduction by offering financial rewards. In...
Will The “Transition Away” From Fossil Fuels Really Happen By 2050?
At the global climate summit COP28, global leaders have pledged to ultimately move away from fossil fuels cutting a wide...
The Warmest Summer Had Cascading Impacts Across The Arctic
The year 2023 shattered the record for the warmest summer in the Arctic, and people and ecosystems across the region felt...
Why Mitigating Methane Emissions Matters…
Methane (CH4) is a powerful greenhouse gas. In the first 20 years after release, methane is 86 times more powerful...
India’s Heat Action Plans Ignore The Vulnerable
Researchers have stated that climate change made the heatwave that hit Bangladesh, India, Thailand and Laos in April 2023 at...
How The Queen’s Death Stole The Thunder Of A Climate Warning
Think back to September last year. What happened early that month? What news shook the world and reverberated for weeks,...
How Solar-Powered Refrigerators Slow Down Climate Change
Food loss and waste are major problems around the world. When food is tossed aside or allowed to spoil, it...
COP27: Loss And Damage Fund Sole Success
The disconnect between the reality of climate change and the artificial bubble in which global climate negotiations take place became...
NZ Proposes Taxing Cow Burps, Farmers Miffed
(Source: AP) New Zealand’s government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing...
Can Food Tourism Help Regenerate Our Planet?
The coronavirus pandemic showed us we were on the wrong track to developing sustainable tourism. Reduced mobility and border closures...
Analysis: India’s New Climate Targets No More Than Baby Steps
India has updated two of its five 2015 commitments to the world on what it will do to combat climate...
Climate Catastrophe: Carbon Removal Could Help Prevent It
Historically, policies to combat climate change have focused on mitigation: reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. This has not worked. The...
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...
Why India Is Neglecting Its Methane Problem
Last month at COP26 in Glasgow, more than 100 countries pledged to reduce global methane emissions by 30% by the...
Kerry Says China Crucial To Handling Climate Crisis
China needs to expand its efforts to reduce carbon emissions to help hold back the rise in global temperatures, US...
How Dust Can Melt Mountains & Change Seas
Asia’s largest freshwater reserve is disappearing. In the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, which is warming by 0.3-0.7 degrees Celsius above...
Extreme Sea Level Events Could Happen Every Year
Extreme sea level events that previously occurred once in 100 years could happen every year by the end of this...
Wielding Machetes, Scientists Count Carbon In The Amazon
The machete-wielding scientists ventured into the Amazon, hacking through dense jungle as the mid-morning temperature soared past 100 degrees Fahrenheit...
‘Planet Is Dying’, 8-Year-Old Climate Crusader Warns
When 8-year-old Indian climate change activist Licypriya Kangujam is older, she wants to launch a solo mission to the moon...
Despite Lockdowns, Greenhouse Gases Hit New Record: U.N.
Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere hit a record high this year, a United Nations report showed, as...
