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Villagers wade through a flooded road after heavy rains in Hojai district of India's Assam state on May 19, 2022. (Photo:AFP)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Climate crisis to be India’s biggest threat this century

One reason wheat prices have shot up has to do with the intense heatwave that struck parts of India from March

20 May 2022 12:15 AM

We really have no option but to control our own emissions that are leading to climate change, and absolutely insist that the rest of the world does the same. (Representational Image/ PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Rising stress of heat: Act now, before it gets worse

Cities and states are developing heat action plans, but the focus must remain on the most vulnerable

06 May 2022 12:09 AM

Weaker production will lead to a drop in farmers’ income, squeezing margins just as costs of fertilizer and fuel have soared. (Representational image: PTI)

Heatwave to scorch India’s wheat supplies, adding food-shortage worries to world

This could be a serious blow to global wheat supplies after Ukraine war upended trade flows out of the critical Black Sea breadbasket region

02 May 2022 10:18 AM

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. (AP)

Indranil Banerjie | Global climate calamity is here: Does anybody care?

All attempts to prevent climate change are failing and the situation is worsening

04 Mar 2022 3:38 AM

It is accurate to say that India has quite consciously been led to the stage today when communalism has completely infected the nation. (Representational Image/ PTI)

Aakar Patel | Are we ready to believe things are not going well with India?

A course can be corrected only if we accept that we are headed in the wrong direction

11 Jan 2022 2:15 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at the World Leaders' Summit "Accelerating Clean Technology Innovation and Deployment" session at the COP26 Climate Conference at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo: AFP)

Padma Rao Sundarji | A cop-out for the world, but a triumph for India

India’s unassailable position as a world leader in climate negotiations was reaffirmed by PM Narendra Modi in a simple but skilful speech

16 Nov 2021 11:33 AM

A girl holds a draw reading Save Our World as demonstrators take part in the Fridays for Future Scotland march, during the Cop26 summit in Glasgow. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Is there hope for planet, or will prophets of doom rule?

As with Covid, humanity is in this together

06 Nov 2021 2:43 AM

Climate evangelism is led by the nations of the European Union. (Photo: Representational/ANI)

K.C. Singh | Can India change, make its policies climate-friendly?

But the United States, the European Union and China renounced the overseas funding of coal-related projects

03 Nov 2021 12:39 AM

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres greet Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland on Nov. 1, 2021. (AP /Alastair Grant, Pool)

PM lists India's five key climate targets; pledges 'Net Zero' emissions by 2070

A country reaches its net zero target when the amount of greenhouse gases it adds is no more than the amount taken away from the atmosphere

02 Nov 2021 7:12 AM

COP26: Climate change must be addressed on cooperative global level, says Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama said he was encouraged to see that the younger generations were demanding concrete action on climate change

31 Oct 2021 10:32 AM

Though 50 countries have promised net zero emissions by 2050, the experts feel that the roadmap is vague. Representational Image. (AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India set to score brownie points at Glasgow’s COP?

In Paris, there was a commitment to reduce carbon emissions by 50 per cent by 2030

29 Oct 2021 3:03 AM

Queen Elizabeth II greets Bill Gates at the reception for the Global Investment Summit in Windsor Castle, Windsor, England, Tuesday, Oct. 19.

Kishwar Desai | Queen caustic; many take an 'Earthshot' to 'fix' the planet

The Queen had a reception for the rich patrons who are going to pour money for fighting climate change

25 Oct 2021 1:47 AM

The absence of a central authority to define rules for sharing a depletable, common resource is the central problem behind global warming.Representational Image. (AP)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Glasgow COP looming: Feel earth move under your feet

At the current rate of around thirty-four billion tons of CO2 emissions per year, we could exhaust our carbon budget in less than a decade

25 Oct 2021 1:10 AM

Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev is seen on video screens as he addresses the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly remotely, Sept. 21, 2021 at U.N. headquarters. (Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)

Racism, climate and divisions top UN agenda as leaders meet

For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, more than two dozen world leaders appeared in person at the U.N. General Assembly

22 Sep 2021 1:04 PM

Bank researchers in 2018 released a report on the impact of climate change on migration in South Asia, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, and projected 143 million people in those regions could be forced to move by 2050. (PTI)

Climate change could force 216 million from their homes: World Bank

World Bank's vice president for sustainable development said that the data give a 'global estimate' of the scale of potential migration

14 Sep 2021 3:11 AM

The richest countries, pledged to contribute or arrange $100 billion per year from 2015-20 but have confirmed just 18 per cent of that amount to the Green Climate Fund. (ANI Photo)

Glasgow COP is near: Fix rewards for aggressive mitigation of goal

The race to keep global climate stable seems irrevocably loaded against us, already

27 Aug 2021 1:08 AM

One of the implications of climate change that has not received much attention is its impact on civilisations. Representational Image. (ANI)

Indranil Banerjie | A hotter, wetter planet to trigger new world order?

This calamitous warning comes from the latest report released earlier this week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

13 Aug 2021 2:52 AM

The future looks even more turbulent — more heatwaves worsened by higher humidity, erratic rainfall, more droughts, floods and forest fires. Representational Image. (Twitter)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Health a key priority in battling climate change

India, home to millions of the world’s poorest, should be worried and better prepared

12 Aug 2021 3:51 AM

Climate change is already affecting every region on earth, in multiple ways. A file photo of the massive 2018 Kerala floods. (PTI)

UN landmark report: Extreme sea level events will hit every year by end of century

The report, however, gave hope that it is still possible from a physical science point of view, to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees

09 Aug 2021 2:30 PM

On the heels of deadly floods in India, China and northern Europe as well as asphalt-melting heatwaves in North America and southern Europe, the IPCC's report is the first so-called assessment report since 2014. (Representational image: AP)

UN set to unveil landmark report as climate impacts multiply

The report will project global temperature changes until the end of the century under different emissions scenarios

09 Aug 2021 12:39 PM

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