Simply put: How heat footprint has grown
Large new study crunches decades of IMD data to unpack patterns of warming — and some cooling — across India, points to impact on agriculture in a country with 17.5 per cent of world’s population but only
Global Warming
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Expert warns of irrevocable biodiversity damage with rising temperature
A 3.2 degree Celsius increase in the Earth's temperature could see 47 per cent of insect species, 26 per cent of vertebrate and 16 per cent of plant species lose at least half of their geographic ranges,
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Shorter, hotter, earlier: Shrinking spring slashes Pakistani harvests
Adil Khan's hopes for a good harvest are fading again this year as he inspects his orchard of apricot and loquat trees in the mountains of Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Usually,
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New phase of globalisation could worsen CO2 pollution: study
Global temperatures have already risen a full degree Celsius since the mid-19th century, enough to disrupt weather patterns and boost deadly storms, droughts and floods. The shift of low-value, energy-hungry
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Rising temperature: India is warming up rapidly
A new study on climate change in India has confirmed a rapid rise in surface temperatures in the past 70 years. The study calculated temperature rise in terms of change occurring from decade to decade,
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In Madagascar, fishermen plant mangroves for the future
Volunteers replant dozens of mangrove propagules or shoots in a field near the village of Amboanio in the Melaky Region in Madagascar, part of a WWF programme to restore the mangroves. Hunched over
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Despite the surge in renewables, emission levels almost unchanged
The rise of renewable sources of energy and their gallant victories over fossil fuels — particularly coal — is now legendary. Last year, India added 11,788 MW of renewable energy capacity, twice as
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Climate change: Delhi government to prepare road map
Worried over the change in climatic conditions and its impact on the health of residents, the Delhi government's health department is preparing a road map on how to deal with the seasonal changes in the
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HP must wake up to climate change impacts: Experts
Shimla: As experts shared a stage to discuss impacts of climate change on mountain ecosystems, it emerged that it’s high time to come up with mitigation strategies to sustain livelihood of farmers in Himachal
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Climate change may lead to rise in temperature
The average global surface temperature will increase between 1.5 degree Celsius and 4.5 degree Celsius by the end of this century due to climate change, according to a government report, said Siddhanta