Climate Crisis

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COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber, right, celebrates passing the global stocktake with United Nations Climate Chief Simon Stiell, left, and COP28 CEO Adnan Amin during a plenary session at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo)

Indranil Banerjie | COP28 and wages of greed: Planet is at breaking point

The urgency of action on climate control has been reiterated endlessly in recent times

18 Dec 2023 12:54 AM

To hold COP-28 in a petroleum producing state under the chairmanship of the head honcho of a fossil fuel firm and decide to hold the next one in another, in Azerbaijan, might not be such a bad thing if the idea was to take the ticklish subject of fossil fuels head-on. (AFP Photo)

AA Edit | Rich nations must pay for decarbonisation

World has acknowledged that a climate deal should involve transitioning away from fossil fuels

15 Dec 2023 11:57 PM

COP28 president Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber (C) and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Simon Stiell (L) and other officials attend a plenary session during the United Nations climate summit in Dubai on December 13, 2023. (AFP)

COP28 seals deal on fossil fuels

The historic document called on countries with an eight-point plan to achieve the goal

14 Dec 2023 2:40 AM

In its latest World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency said India will see the largest energy demand growth of any country or region in the world over the next three decades.

Northwestern, south-central regions emerging future heatwave hotspots in India: Study

India's demand for electricity for running household air conditioners is estimated to expand nine-fold by 2050

26 Oct 2023 12:48 AM

Some of us, you see, have been left with Long Covid, and almost all of us with Long Anxiety, which is not just another fallout of the pandemic, but a pandemic in its own right. (Photo by arrangement)

Shreya Sen-Handley | Mothers’ dreams, and why they must be taken seriously

The climate crisis, the pandemic, this new war, are REAL, and so’s the anxiety!

20 Mar 2022 12:29 AM

An employee walks in the water tank of the metropolitan outer underground discharge channel in Kasukabe, Saitama prefecture. - It has been called Japan's underground "Parthenon," a cavernous complex charged with protecting Tokyo and surrounding areas from catastrophic flooding -- a risk experts warn is growing as climate change advances. (AFP)

The underground 'Parthenon' protecting Tokyo from floods

In Tokyo alone there are 10 other underground reservoirs and three flood tunnels, and more flood-protection structures are being built

12 Oct 2020 12:03 PM

If the activists win their case at the court in Strasbourg, France, the countries would be legally bound to cut emissions in line with the requirements of the 2015 Paris climate accord. (AFP)

Six young climate activists are taking 33 countries to court

The six filed a claim to hold the countries accountable for their inadequate efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions

04 Sep 2020 1:07 PM

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (AP File Photo)

Germany's Merkel hosts Greta Thunberg for talks on climate crisis

The meeting comes exactly two years after Thunberg started to strike outside Swedish parliament to call attention to climate crisis

20 Aug 2020 3:14 PM

Members of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis gather for a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol on June 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. (AFP)

Climate battles are having their day in court

As lawsuits for climate go up, lawyers are getting creative — using new legal arguments to challenge companies and governments before court

03 Jul 2020 9:33 AM

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (Photo: ANI)

As climate crisis grows, all of us should act now

The efforts of governments, corporations and individuals are just not enough to slow down, leave alone reverse, the trends in global warming.

10 Dec 2019 1:37 AM

Cities that are all currently lying in the cold zones in the northern hemisphere will get considerably hotter. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

Major cities to drastically heat up by 2050

Global heating to increase temperatures by over 3 degrees Celsius in coming three decades.

20 Jul 2019 12:52 PM

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