State of the climate in Asia 2023
Asia remained the world’s most disaster-hit region from weather, climate and water-related hazards in 2023. Floods and storms caused the highest number of reported casualties and economic losses, whilst
Climate Change
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Pre-liberation pipes in city
The water situation in Panjim in Goa may not be as bad as it was three years ago but only meeting the demand for water in the city does not call for much to boast about as some issues related to
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CM firm on pushing bill on groundwater
The Delhi government is firm on regulating groundwater extraction and giving Delhi Jal Board (DJB) powers to implement user charges on this. A select committee of Delhi Assembly had unanimously
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UNFCCC COP 11 and COP/MOP 1
Since entry into force of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1994, negotiations on controlling future greenhouse gas emissions have turned into one of the largest development issues of our time.
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Interpreting estimated environmental Kuznets Curves for greenhouse gases
This article examines the question of how to interpret a relationship between income and carbon emissions in a country (the environmental kuznets curve [EKC] for carbon). A very simple and graphical structural model of an EKC is developed, and the problems of applying the concept to carbon are discussed.
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Disaster dossier: The impact of climate change on Orissa
For over a decade, Orissa has been teetering from one extreme weather condition to another: from heatwaves to cyclones, drought to floods. The state has been declared disaster-affected for 95 of the last 105 years. Why is this happening? Is it the result of global warming and climate change? Richard Mahapatra, who has been awarded the
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RIL, REL seek UN panel nod
Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and Reliance Energy Ltd (REL), part of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Enterprises Group, have each submitted a carbon credit project methodolgy to the UN
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This change is due to global warming
A British scientist has quite rightly called global warming "a weapon of mass destruction'. In another day and age this may have sounded alarmist but given the rather unseasonal weather that India
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World lawmakers set up global warming monitor group
Lawmakers and business leaders from around the world launched a campaign to push recalcitrant governments to take action on climate change. Accusing rich and poor alike of talking a good fight
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A much hotter India may be in prospect
Temperature in the Indian sub continent could rise to a level that is three to four degree Celsius above the average by 2100 owing to global warming . The rise may be more in the northern parts
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Bacteria aiding global warming , experts say
The level of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere is likely to grow more than expected as soil bacteria, in response to rising temperature, break down more organic material and produce more