Climate Change

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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

Scientists have also been extensively studying Earth's oceans. (Photo: PTI/File)

Past climate change 'tipping points' can help us prepare for future: Study

The paper explores prior research with sediment cores in the Gulf of Alaska, dust records in North Africa and ice cores from Greenland

01 Aug 2021 1:06 PM

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 Jul 2021 2:08 AM

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 heatwave and floods

25 Jul 2021 10:13 AM

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

08 Jun 2021 12:18 AM

Modi called for “concrete action at a high speed, on large scale, and with a global scope” to combat climate change, adding he and US President Joe Biden are launching the “India-US Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 partnership” to help “mobilise investments, demonstrate clean technologies, and enable green collaborations”. — Representational image/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 has not disappeared

23 Apr 2021 8:03 AM

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 climate change

11 Mar 2021 10:56 AM

National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel clear debris after a portion of the Nanda Devi glacier snapped off, releasing water trapped behind it in Tapovan, Uttarakhand on Tuesday, February 9, 2021. (AP Photo)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Playing with God’s world: ‘Growth’ has a high price

It is also unclear to what extent the disaster is the outcome of over-exploitation of resources in the back-to-back construction of dams

10 Feb 2021 7:14 AM

Melting glaciers are the clearest signs of climate change, and since this event took place outside the monsoon period, it is safe to assume human intervention was a causative factor. (PTI /Arun Sharma)

AA Edit | An ecological tragedy of Himalayan proportions

It is obvious that lessons have not been learnt from years of having to deal with floods from the monsoon or melting glaciers

09 Feb 2021 7:24 AM

Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg (Image Source: AFP)

Greta Thunberg's generation most likely to believe climate change is a crisis: poll

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

27 Jan 2021 8:52 PM

While global temperatures are already up by 1ºC, 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 released on Monday

26 Jan 2021 4:08 AM

The Bobcat Fire burns on a hillside on September 15, 2020 in Monrovia, California. California's national forests remain closed due to wildfires which have already incinerated a record 2.5 million acres this year. The Bobcat Fire, burning in the San Gabriel Mountains, has grown to over 40,000 acres. (AFP)

Satellite data shows smoke from US fires has reached as far as Europe

Estimates show that the blazes have spewed out more than 30 million tonnes of carbon dioxide since mid-August this year

16 Sep 2020 3:49 PM

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