A double-whammy of El Niño and long-term climate change hit Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Drought, heat, wildfires,
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Amid a growing outcry from climate researchers in its own ranks, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration backed away from a statement it released after last year's powerful hurricane
