Tag: Climate change

Watch: How is India responding to calls for shipping decarbonisation?

November 18, 2025 admin

The International Maritime Organization (IMO), routinely lays down rules that regulate international shipping which carries almost all of the world’s trade. These rules are a result of consensus arrived at carefully, with much expert input, through meetings that are not dramatic. But in October, when the IMO that has 176 member-nations met to vote on…

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Climate Change and Climate Justice: India’s efforts to balance economic growth with green transition

November 10, 2025 admin

File image for respresentational purpose only. | Photo Credit: K.K. Mustafah Development goals don’t always have to undermine environmental concerns. As the fourth largest economy in the world, and one of the top polluters, India cannot shy away from climate action citing historical reasons and pointing fingers at the industrialised West. Indeed, India seems determined…

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The pitfalls of climate alarmism

November 2, 2025 admin

A firefighter battles the Palisades Fire in Mandeville Canyon, in Los Angeles. File | Photo Credit: AP For more than a decade, Bill Gates’s views have come to define the respectable centre of climate discourse for the American elite. His words have carried the weight of authority and his ideas have bridged science, capital, and…

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Developing countries need 12 times more funds than currently available to tackle climate crisis

October 29, 2025 admin

Finance is a significant issue in climate negotiations, as developing countries insist that developed countries pay the costs of adaptation (to deal with climate change impacts). File | Photo Credit: AP To adapt to climate change, developing countries will require anywhere from $310-365 billion (at least ₹27 lakh crore) annually by 2035, according to a…

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Trouble in ‘soy State’: Madhya Pradesh soybean farmers lose interest over multiple factors

October 24, 2025 admin

Arvind Singh Rathore was born in 1989, which was the year before his grandfather, (late) Thakur Datar Singh Rathore, and his father, Thakur Santosh Singh Rathore, began cultivating soybean on their ancestral farmland in Muradpura, a village on the outskirts of Indore in Madhya Pradesh. The oilseed was quite new to farmers in this area…

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Science for all what is the connection between extreme heat and increased sugar consumption

October 22, 2025 admin

Image used for representation | Photo Credit: V Raju (This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) Ice creams and carbonated drinks aren’t just innocent treats anymore. There is now quantifiable scientific research warning about people using them…

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Nearly 900 million poor people exposed to climate shocks, UN warns

October 17, 2025 admin

Nearly 80% of the world’s poorest, or about 900 million people, are directly exposed to climate hazards exacerbated by global warming, bearing a “double and deeply unequal burden,” the United Nations warned Friday (October . “No one is immune to the increasingly frequent and stronger climate change effects like droughts, floods, heat waves, and air…

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Remembering primatologist Jane Goodall, who should have got the Nobel Peace Prize

October 9, 2025 admin

Much has been written about the universally loved Jane Goodall, primatologist and animal rights campaigner, on whom awards and honours far too numerous to list have been showered. She passed away on October 1 aged 91. One recognition, however, she did not but should have received is the Nobel Peace Prize. For all her life, Goodall worked for…

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Watch: Is climate change driving people out of the Sunderbans?

October 3, 2025 admin

The Sunderbans is one of the worst-climate change hit regions of India. It is home to millions of people who have depended on these rivers and forests for generations. The rivers here are the lifeline of these islands. They connect remote islands to one another. But these same rivers are now threatening the existence of…

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Major climate change-GDP study under review after facing challenge

August 7, 2025 admin

A blockbuster study published in top science journal Nature last year warned that unchecked climate change could slash global GDP by a staggering 62 percent by century’s end, setting off alarm bells among financial institutions worldwide. But a re-analysis by Stanford University researchers in California, released Wednesday (August 6, 2025), challenges that conclusion — finding…

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