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climate change
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Columns
Parliament has the right to repeal the Places of Worship Act, and indeed some people in the BJP have been asking for this to happen
The White House describes the Quad as only 'a premier regional grouping… on issues that matter to the Indo-Pacific'
This will be a test for the Treaty of Northern Ireland as Sinn Fein would like to reunite both parts which the Unionists don’t like
Disha’s rape and murder occurred on November 27 and there was huge public outrage over the heinous crime