Producing wine, chips and chocolate takes litres and litres of water. How water-wise is your diet?

The food system accounts for around 70% of global freshwater use.

Brad Ridoutt, The Conversation

· Oct 08, 2019 · 11:30 pm

India’s seas are gasping for oxygen – causing marine life to shrink

Low oxygen levels can kill fish or reduce their growth and reproductive abilities.

Neha Jain

· Mar 19, 2018 · 01:30 pm

A business-as-usual attitude to climate change could threaten $2.5 trillion in assets globally

The world could lose 1.8% of all its financial assets only from the direct impacts of climate change. The indirect fallouts will cost a lot more.

Nayantara Narayanan

· Apr 08, 2016 · 02:20 pm

Eyes down: how setting our sights on soil could help save the climate

A new bid to boost the amount of carbon stored in the world's soils has been launched at the Paris climate summit.

Budiman Minasny, Alex McBratney, Brendan Malone and Uta Stockmann, The Conversation

· Dec 03, 2015 · 06:30 am

New 'vulnerable nations' bloc looks set to redraw the climate politics map

A new bloc has emerged at the Paris climate talks – perhaps heralding the end of the old rich-poor geopolitical divide.

Matt McDonald, The Conversation

· Dec 01, 2015 · 11:30 pm

Religious groups make unprecedented push for climate action

Leaders of several faiths have put their weight behind the Paris discussions.

Martin Palmer

· Dec 01, 2015 · 09:30 pm

India may need a whopping $1 trillion by 2030 to adapt to climate change, says new report

As climate risks grow worse, the dynamic adaptation gap for India could grow to $360 billion in finance and much more in technology.

Nayantara Narayanan

· Dec 01, 2015 · 12:30 pm

How climate change has sparked political and social unrest in Punjab this year

And what that tells us about how agriculture is faring in Punjab.

M Rajshekhar

· Nov 30, 2015 · 09:15 am

An Udupi village shows why sea walls do more harm than good (and are no answer to climate change)

Pressures of development are leading to rise in sea level and the resulting erosion of land on the west coast and the government is acting against the advice of environment experts.

Nayantara Narayanan

· Nov 29, 2015 · 09:15 am

India ponders using GM mosquitoes to fight dengue – and climate change could make this necessary

But releasing genetically modified mosquitoes into habitations is an ethical issue that requires a serious debate, apart from biosafety regulations. The first part in a series on the challenges India faces from climate change.

Mridula Chari

· Nov 28, 2015 · 09:15 am