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World Meteorological Day 2024: Date, history, significance
World Meteorological Day 2024: From date to significance, here's all that you need to know about the special day.
Published on Mar 22, 2024 02:28 PM IST
Tapatrisha Das, Delhi
Urban Agenda: Hill states move to check unregulated urban development (finally)
Nine hilly states that failed to take up the Centre's incentives for urban planning-informed development get their act together after recent climate disasters
Published on Feb 24, 2024 07:22 PM IST
NYC winter storm warning: Schools closed due to Nor'easter snow emergency
Several schools across the NYC area announced closure ahead of the Tuesday snowstorm. Nor'easter is expected to hit New Jersey, New York and Connecticut.
Published on Feb 13, 2024 05:40 PM IST
What India should be seeking from COP28
Delhi’s expectations from Dubai meet should be modest, but its intent for accelerating energy transition should be more ambitious.
Published on Dec 02, 2023 10:14 PM IST
Scientifically Speaking | The heartache of climate change
The Earth's latest chapter has a new lexicon: Heat domes, Anthropocene, and... Solastalgia
Published on Sep 20, 2023 10:07 AM IST
Making multilateralism work for all constituents
India's G20 presidency is focused on strengthening multilateralism, including reforms within the UN, the Global South and multilateral development banks
Published on Sep 05, 2023 09:51 PM IST
Twenty-five years on, “Titanic” feels like a prophecy
We are all Rose and Jack now
Updated on Jul 10, 2023 12:24 AM IST
The Economist
An open letter: On wildfires and pollution
Canada is experiencing an unprecedented year of fires, with the smoke shrouding cities in the US and, over 2,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean, in parts of western Europe
Updated on Jun 28, 2023 05:56 AM IST
Biden eyeing climate emergency declaration, says envoy John Kerry: Report
The devastating heat - which has also hit Europe, causing hundreds of deaths there -- highlights the direct threat climate change poses to even the wealthiest countries on the planet.
Published on Jul 24, 2022 09:34 PM IST
Written by Kanishka Singharia | Edited by Swati Bhasin
Melting glaciers: 'One day we will leave here'
Climate change is melting Himalayan glaciers on which hundreds of million people rely, flooding villages and leaving residents without drinking water.
Updated on Jul 19, 2022 02:21 PM IST
Deutsche Welle, Delhi
Effect of a net-zero target for India’s energy transitions & climate policy
The study has been authored by Vaibhav Chaturvedi and Ankur Malyan
Updated on Nov 01, 2021 12:44 PM IST
Ahead of CoP 26 meet: A Negotiation Strategy
The study has been authored by Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Former Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India and Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Social and Economic Progress. Utkarsh Patel, part-time Associate Fellow, Sustainability & Climate Change, at CSEP.
Published on Oct 26, 2021 07:22 AM IST
Climate crisis: What can trees really do for us?
As the amount of carbon in the atmosphere rises, this eat-and-be-eaten cycle increases to keep up. Metabolically, trees are running just to stand still. In the course of all this cycling, forests are locking up the major part of the 33% of human-caused emissions removed from the atmosphere.
Published on Oct 14, 2021 01:37 PM IST
PTI |
Climate change is killing the world's coral reefs: Study
A new study shows that corals are under siege from global warming, with 14% wiped out over a ten-year period.
Published on Oct 05, 2021 10:57 AM IST
World leaders call for cleaner, greener planet
The two-day summit is the second of its kind following the inaugural meeting held in Copenhagen in 2018, and is focused on public-private partnerships, especially in developing countries.
Published on May 31, 2021 08:14 AM IST
AFP | , Seoul
Global average temperature could pass 1.5° Celsius within the next 5 years
Last year tied with 2016 for the warmest on record, with temperatures 1.2°C above pre-industrial times. The past seven years have been the warmest seven ever recorded, a sign that climate change is accelerating.
Published on May 27, 2021 07:47 AM IST
Bloomberg |
Greta Thunberg aims to change how food is produced
In a video posted on Twitter on Saturday, Thunberg said the environmental impact of farming as well as disease outbreaks such as Covid-19, which is believed to have originated from animals, would be reduced by changing how food was produced.
Published on May 23, 2021 12:42 PM IST
Reuters | | Posted by Prashasti Singh, Stockholm
PM Modi accepts Joe Biden's invitation to attend climate summit: MEA
"Prime Minister Modi welcomed President Biden's initiative and accepted the invitation," MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said.
Updated on Apr 03, 2021 10:24 AM IST
Written by Prashasti Singh, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Pope, using Shakespeare, makes climate change appeal
"I suggest we adapt Hamlet's famous 'to be or not to be' and affirm: 'To see or not to see, that is the question!' Where it starts is with each one's seeing, yes, mine and yours," Pope Francis wrote.
Published on Mar 30, 2021 06:50 PM IST
Reuters | , Vatican City
EU's top court rejects effort to force tougher climate rules
Families from Kenya, Fiji, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal and Romania and the Swedish Sami Youth organization launched the legal action in 2018.
Published on Mar 25, 2021 05:36 PM IST
AP |
Deadly heat waves will become more common in South Asia, say scientists
According to the research, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, with two degrees of warming, the population's exposure to lethal temperatures rises by close to three times as compared to recent years.
Published on Mar 25, 2021 01:05 PM IST
PTI |
China to cut carbon emissions per economic unit of output by 18% in five years
Many are waiting to see whether the government will unveil more detailed regulations on carbon-intense industries such as steel and cement manufacturing later this year.
Published on Mar 05, 2021 04:58 PM IST
AP |
Europe seeks stronger protection for economy from 'extreme weather events'
Extreme weather events, such as forest fires and heatwaves in the Arctic Circle, droughts in the south and flooding and forest loss in central and eastern Europe, are already having far-reaching effects on the European economy.
Published on Feb 24, 2021 05:14 PM IST
Bloomberg |
Two-thirds of world see 'climate emergency': UN survey
The findings suggest the grassroots global climate movement that surged onto the world stage in 2019 -- led, in part, by a then 16-year Greta Thunberg of Sweden -- is still gaining momentum, even if a raging pandemic has obscured its scope.
Published on Jan 27, 2021 01:08 PM IST
AFP |
UN secretary urges world leaders to declare states of ‘climate emergency’
Guterres said that economic recovery packages launched in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic represented an opportunity to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon future - but warned this was not happening fast enough.
Updated on Dec 12, 2020 08:17 PM IST
London |
Reuters | Posted by Srivatsan K C
Greta Thunberg warns of fallouts from climate change in powerful documentary trailer that gives goosebumps
Sweden’s teen climate change activist, Greta Thunberg’s documentary trailer grabs over 1.3 million views, makes hair stand on the ends with climate emergency warnings ahead of cinematic release worldwide starting October 16
Updated on Sep 13, 2020 12:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi |
Zarafshan Shiraz
‘Climate emergency’ Oxford word of year
According to Oxford, there was a rapid rise of ‘climate emergency’ from “relative obscurity” to becoming one of the most prominently debated terms of 2019, increasing its usage by 100 times in a year.
Updated on Nov 22, 2019 05:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
HT Correspondent
Over 11,000 scientists around the world declare climate emergency
More than 11,000 experts from around the world are calling for a critical addition to the main strategy of dumping fossil fuels for renewable energy: there needs to be far fewer humans on the planet.
Updated on Nov 06, 2019 07:25 AM IST
Bloomberg |
Eric Roston