Global Warming

Let it snow: Why winters are becoming shorter and drier in Kashmir

Kashmir and Ladakh are witnessing one of their driest winters with hardly any snow. The winter duration in the region has shortened and this change is attributed to climate change

Height of cold: Ooty in Tamil Nadu at 2240 mts above sea level almost freezes

Residents and environmental activists in Tamil Nadu's Ooty are concerned as well as worried over the relatively 'unseasonal' cold that has gripped the mountains

In Graphics | Why 2023 was the hottest year on record

2023 goes as the warmest calendar year in world temperature data records dating back to 1850. With 1.48 degrees Celsius, Earth verged on the global warming threshold and showed symptoms of a feverish planet. As January 2024 is also on track to be warm, we look at the reasons why 2023 was so hot

Global Warming: 2023 breaks heat record; warmest in 100,000 years

The earth was 1.48 degrees Celsius warmer on average in 2023 than it was in the pre-industrial era between 1850 and 1900, when people started burning fossil fuels on a large scale and released carbon dioxide into the atmosphere

China breaks heat records in 2023 as sweltering weather baked cities from north to south

Beijing smashed a 23-year-old record in July with 27 consecutive days of temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit).

Can't put India and nations with high per capita emissions in same basket: European Parliament member

India's per capita carbon dioxide emissions rose by around five per cent last year to reach 2 tonnes of carbon dioxide but these were still less than half of the global average, according to a report released by a global team of scientists earlier this week.

Cop28: Talks intensify to break impasse over slashing greenhouse gas emissions

Burning fossil fuels for energy is by far the biggest cause of climate change. It is also the engine of modern life - even with the growth of renewables, fossil fuels produce around 80% of the world's energy.

What does a net zero world look like? Here's what experts say

Experts found temperatures would respond very differently in various parts of the world, and heat extremes might continue to disproportionately affect vulnerable populations even after net zero reductions

Head-on | Global North and the geopolitics of entitlement

For over thirty years of climate change summits, the Global North had blocked any mention of oil and gas as major contributors to carbon emissions. That fiction has ended at the COP28 summit in Dubai

Will COP28 UAE shape climate justice amid clash between urgency and economic realities in global climate action?

The core commitment of COP28 is to conceptualise a sustainable socio-economic model that will substantively decouple itself from conventional reliance on the fossil-related energy model