Climate Change Crisis

Data, democracy and decision making: A look at climate change and India through the prism of past, present, future

In this column, Mridula Ramesh considers the past, through five pieces of data, the present political context, and three important events in the coming year that are central to climate change and India.

World Bank study enumerates climate change consequences for South Asia: Will India act in time?

The World Bank study suggests that transitioning farmers to non-agricultural jobs, providing additional schooling and reducing water stress could reduce the climate change hit on India’s GDP from 2.8 percent to 2.4 percent. But is this feasible, and, pertinently, who should initiate action?

Climate change and the social contract: How our choices lead to predictable tragedies

Climate change throws into sharp relief, the fissures in our system

Winter is coming: Unusual chill is a reminder we urgently need to combat climate change

Now more than ever, we need innovative solutions to the climate change crisis

Before the Flood review: State-of-the-earth docu is Leonardo DiCaprio's greatest role so far

Leonardo DiCaprio's Before the Flood is a timely and important film putting in perspective the current state of our only home

Amitav Ghosh: 'The threat of climate change is real, and it is intensifying'

In an interview with Firstpost, Amitav Ghosh discusses his new book on climate change, and why literary fiction needs to be more attentive to the crisis