Climate change and loss of habitat will push elephants in subcontinent towards Himalayas: Study

India and Nepal are home to about 60% of the global population of the Asian elephant.

Mayank Aggarwal

· Apr 03, 2019 · 10:30 pm

Last four years warmest ever on record, rate of heating is ‘exceptional’: UN weather body

Extreme weather events last year included the floods in Kerala, California wildfires and drought in South Africa.

Scroll Staff

· Feb 07, 2019 · 10:28 am

How ponds can fight climate change in your garden

Ponds are biodiversity hotspots in the landscape, disproportionately rich in species when compared to rivers, streams and lakes.

Mike Jeffries, The Conversation

· Feb 05, 2019 · 11:30 pm

After Paris Agreement, COP24 gives us Paris Rulebook – but tackling climate change needs much more

The new rules offer little to compel countries to up their game to the level required.

Kate Dooley, The Conversation

· Dec 19, 2018 · 11:30 pm

El Niño condition that affects weather patterns could form within three months, says UN agency

The World Meteorological Organization said there is 75%-80% chance that the phenomenon, which has led to droughts and floods in the past, may form by February.

Scroll Staff

· Nov 27, 2018 · 08:23 pm

Why Indian researchers are studying the Arctic to predict monsoon patterns back home

An interview with Director of India’s National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, M Ravichandran, on India’s polar projects.

Omair Ahmad

· Nov 24, 2018 · 08:30 pm

Climate change is making sea water in the Sunderbans saltier, putting women at risk

Across South Asia’s coastal deltas, fresh water is in ever-shorter supply.

Manipadma Jena, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· Nov 03, 2018 · 09:30 pm

How 2018 Nobel winner William Nordhaus helped calculate the economic cost of climate change

Nordhaus laid the groundwork for an entire field.

Kenneth Gillingham

· Oct 18, 2018 · 11:30 pm

How to understand the new IPCC report on climate change and the 1.5℃ global warming target

The focus on 1.5℃ is the result of years of international negotiation.

Keith Shine, The Conversation

· Oct 12, 2018 · 07:30 pm

Climate change: Unprecedented action is required to curb temperature rise, says UN panel report

The impacts and costs of 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming will be much more than expected, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 08, 2018 · 09:59 am

Shorter, hotter, earlier: In Pakistan, shrinking spring is slashing harvests

As climate change brings warmer temperatures earlier, fruit and vegetable farmers are struggling.

Saleem Shaikh, Thomson Reuters Foundation

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Sughra Tunio, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· May 23, 2018 · 10:30 pm

Arctic reindeer herders find out what they share with Himalayan yak herders at a high-altitude meet

Though continents apart and lacking a common language, residents of the two areas met in Norway to discuss common climate change challenges.

Hanna Lønning Gjerdi

· May 07, 2018 · 01:30 pm