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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'...

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

2 Nov 2021 7:12 AM IST

Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg. (AFP)

Greta Thunberg's generation most likely to believe climate change is a...

70% of people under 18 believe climate change is a global emergency versus 58% of those over 60

27 Jan 2021 8:52 PM IST

While global temperatures are already up by 1ÂºC, the temperature rise in India indicates increasing heat waves. (Representational Image/AFP)

Meteorologists forecast heat waves for ensuing summer

India had been the 7th most affected by climate change globally in 2019, reveals the Global Climate Risk Index 2021...

26 Jan 2021 4:08 AM IST

Using state-of-the-art space technologies, DMSat-1 will monitor, collect and analyse environmental data as well as measure air pollutants and greenhouse gases. (Image credit: Twitter/@MBRSpaceCentre)

Dubai to launch environmental nanometric satellite

The launch is part of a high-technology project undertaken to develop solutions to environmental challenges and address...

11 March 2021 10:56 AM IST

Modi said the nation is looking to build a natural gas pipeline grid to boost usage of the environment-friendly fuel that would help cut carbon emissions. (Photo:PTI)

Modi calls for quick action to save world

Modi said that humanity is battling a pandemic and tht it is a timely reminder that the grave threat of climate change...

23 April 2021 8:03 AM IST

The 10-year average rate of increase also set a record, now up to 2.4 parts per million per year. (Representational Photo:AFP)

Carbon dioxide levels hit 50% higher than preindustrial time

It has taken only 42 years, from 1979 to 2021, to increase carbon dioxide by that same amount

8 Jun 2021 12:18 AM IST

Curiously, mankind itself is feeling hapless as climate change seems to be taking its toll. Representational Image (Twitter)

AA Edit | Climate change hits home

The precariously fragile ecosystems of the Western Ghats have also been potentially disrupted by construction activity

26 July 2021 2:08 AM IST

A billboard with a photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is partially submerged in flood waters at Kolhapur in western Maharashtra on Saturday, July 24, 2021. Officials say landslides and flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rain have killed more than 100 people in western India. (AP)

India is on the frontline of climate change

In the first seven months of this year the nation has experienced two cyclones, a glacier collapse in the Himalayas, a...

25 July 2021 10:13 AM IST

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

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 IST

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...

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

13 Aug 2021 2:52 AM IST

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...

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

12 Aug 2021 3:51 AM IST

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...

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

9 Aug 2021 2:30 PM IST