Climate Conundrum

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

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The Reel

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