January 11, 2021 7:07 pm
In the nearly 30 years of its existence, it has become doubtful if the Fund has been achieving its purpose as accounts of underutilisation and indifference by the authorities keep surfacing.
December 29, 2020 9:00 pm
The main reason for such consecutive warm decades is the record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases present in the atmosphere.
December 08, 2020 8:47 am
Despite contrasting approaches, China and US share goals on environment. In underlining climate change as an important area of engagement with Biden, Delhi has signalled its readiness to deal with a new phase in the global politics of environment.
December 03, 2020 5:27 pm
According to the researchers, the ice sheet is seven times the area of the UK, and stores a large amount of the Earth's frozen water.
November 08, 2020 12:59 pm
Global warming was on the ballot, to a surprising degree. Biden promised to embrace international climate diplomacy and spend more than $2 trillion backing clean energy and green jobs.
October 07, 2020 3:55 pm
The Paris Agreement, of which many UN nations are signatories, has nations aim to cap global warming "well below" 2 degrees Celsius and at 1.5 degrees if possible.
September 09, 2020 6:09 pm
The world already has warmed nearly 2 degrees (1.1 degrees Celsius) since the late 1800s, and the last five years are hotter than the previous five years, the report said.
July 21, 2020 2:00 pm
The fate of polar bears has long been a flashpoint in the debate over human-caused climate change, used by scientists and environmentalists as well as deniers in their arguments.
July 15, 2020 6:59 pm
At a time when the world is struggling with climate change, global warming, extinction of wildlife, loss of forest cover, and disease and destruction, Kristine Tompkins asks if we are prepared to do whatever it takes to change the end of this story
July 09, 2020 7:27 pm
The UN weather agency says the world could see average global temperatures 1.5 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial average for the first time in the coming five years.
January 15, 2019 7:31 am
As scientists study the threats posed by a warming climate, some of the immediate effects of climate change have been a double-edged sword for some in and around Tasiilaq.
June 22, 2020 6:16 pm
Rising ocean temperatures have fueled some of the most devastating storms in recent years. Kendra Pierre-Louis, a reporter on The New York Times’s climate team, explains how.