Climate

A year when several parts of the world bore the brunt of extreme weather conditions

The world is creeping closer to the warming threshold international agreements are trying to prevent

The UNDP and partners of the Adaptation Innovation Marketplace (AIM) have announced $2.2 million in climate action grants for 22 local innovators across 19 countries, including India.

This is leading to more extreme weather conditions with the world's wetter areas becoming even more soaked and the dry regions becoming even more parched: Report

Halting, then reversing the dangerous, ongoing loss of Earth's plant and animal diversity requires far more than an expanded global system of protected areas of land and seas, scientists warned

Bhupender Yadav held a telephonic call with John Kerry and discussed a wide range of issues including India's ambitious climate action targets announced during COP26.

Amazon is facing criticism from climate activists who say excessive consumption harms the environment

Excess irrigation over north India shifts the September monsoon rainfall towards the northwestern part of the subcontinent and increases widespread weather extremes across central India

The national capital on Sunday recorded a maximum temperature of 39.8 degrees Celsius, three notches above normal, the India Meteorological Department said here. The minimum temperature in the city settled at 26.2 degrees Celsius, and the relative humidity was recorded at 68 per cent, it said. The weather office said the city was likely to see partly cloudy skies with the possibility of thunder and lightning on Monday. The minimum and the maximum temperatures will be settling around 27 and 40 degrees Celsius respectively, it added. Delhi's air quality was in the moderate category on Sunday morning. Data from the Central Pollution Control Board showed that the hourly air quality index (AQI) at 6.05 pm stood at 137. An AQI between zero and 50 is considered good, 51 and 100 satisfactory, 101 and 200 moderate, 201 and 300 poor, 301 and 400 very poor, and 401 and 500 severe.

More than 55 million people had been forced to move by the end of 2020, with the number of climate migrants likely to be significantly underestimated due to incomplete data.

Within three decades, the role of fossil fuels should reverse entirely -- from 80% of global energy needs today to barely a fifth by mid-century.

US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry said that decisive action from the country now will determine what this transformation will mean for all generations to come

The Moon played a huge role in the evolution of life on Earth as a new study suggests that our natural satellite once had a magnetic field that helped shield our planet from harmful solar radiation

Global climatic events like the Roman Warm Period, Medieval Climate Anomaly, and the Little Ice Age may have had significant impacts on India's landscape, vegetation, and socio-economic growth, with abrupt shifts in the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) coinciding with these climatic events, a study by Indian researchers has found. The study by the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, an institute of the Department of Science & Technology, shows wet monsoon conditions in the North-Western Himalaya between 1200 and 550 BCE. This condition prevailed till 450 AD, coinciding with the Roman Warm Period. It was followed by reduced precipitation and a weak ISM till 950 AD and then strengthened during the Medieval Climate Anomaly between 950 and 1350 AD. During the Little Ice Age, there was a pronounced reduction in monsoon precipitation. The study carried out with lake sediments from Rewalsar Lake, a freshwater lake in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh, could resolve the long debate among ...

All five studies that have come out between March 10 and March 23 have analysed COVID-19's relation with temperature and humidity in China and in other countries with high number of cases

At least one major UK company already faces a hard-hitting resolution aimed at making it more green.

Jaci Anderson, an Amazon spokesperson, said that the company's external communications policy isn't new.

Natural disasters, which are expected to increase due to climate change, also render women and girls vulnerable to sexual abuse and exploitation, particularly in contexts of pre-existing economically

It includes 17 convening countries and 28 commissioners, including the leaders, representing all regions of the globe and all sectors of development and industry