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Here are this week's top climate stories from around the world

8 predictions for how the passing of Biden’s climate agenda will shape 2030Subscriber Only

August 13, 2022 13:12 IST

Cleaner air, greener cities, shifted politics: Experts speculate on likely outcomes by the decade’s end from $374 billion in US climate spending.

Meet the pilot who quit flying because of the climate crisisSubscriber Only

August 10, 2022 11:30 IST

After struggling for years to finance his training, commercial pilot Todd Smith swapped his wings for climate activism.

How do we fight wildfires as temperatures rise?Subscriber Only

August 10, 2022 11:13 IST

As wildfires again burn out of control, strategies to limit climate-fueled infernos include fighting fire with fire.

A flooded road and shopping area near Coldwater Creek in Florissant, Mo., July 26, 2022. (Michael B. Thomas/The New York Times)

How is climate change affecting floods?Subscriber Only

July 27, 2022 14:45 IST

Scientists are confident some types of flooding will increase in the “business as usual” scenario in which humans continue warming the planet with greenhouse gas emissions at the current rate.

Train passengers in Copenhagen, Denmark, who are able bring bicycles aboard, on Sept. 5, 2019. Worldwide, incentivizing public transportation by making it cheaper and encouraging other mobility options, like walking or cycling, could save around 330,000 barrels a day of oil use, according to the International Energy Agency. (Charlotte de la Fuente/The New York Times)

Four things nations can do to conserve energySubscriber Only

July 24, 2022 16:58 IST

Well-designed public awareness campaigns can motivate people to take measures to reduce their own energy use, but poorly designed campaigns that don’t find the right tone and message can fall flat.

Firefighters stand in a smoky forest and watch a forest fire in Rheinsberg, Germany, June 23, 2022. (AP)

Heat waves around the world push people and nations ‘to the edge’Subscriber Only

June 25, 2022 14:50 IST

While heat waves are shaped by complex local factors such as urbanization and land use, scientists no longer have much doubt about whether climate change is making them worse.

Ganapathy said unless a reader feels or experiences climate change themselves, it is very difficult to make them feel that it is happening for real.(File)

IIM-B faculty’s book explores socioeconomic, cultural understanding of climate change

June 16, 2022 21:13 IST

With a special focus on the Western Ghats, the book looks at the media’s coverage of climate change and investigates its role in representing the complex realities of climate uncertainties

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Now, like cyclones, heatwaves to get names too

June 9, 2022 07:30 IST

In India, while we do not name heatwaves, we have names for cyclones.

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British journalist, Brazilian expert missing in the Amazon

June 7, 2022 12:20 IST

The place where they disappeared is the primary access route to and from the Vale do Javari, where several thousand Indigenous people live in dozens of villages.

How a billionaire’s climate activism forced Australia’s top polluter to take a U-TurnSubscriber Only

May 30, 2022 16:10 IST

Mike Cannon-Brookes most famously demonstrated his interest in accelerating clean energy in 2017 when he challenged Tesla Inc.’s Musk to install 100 megawatts of battery power within 100 days to help solve an energy crisis in South Australia.

Canada proposes guidelines to manage financial risks from climate change

May 27, 2022 16:08 IST

Canada, the world's fourth-largest oil producer, has committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.

Coal piles are seen at JERA's Hekinan thermal power station in Hekinan, central Japan
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Japan reiterates plan to cut reliance on coal

May 27, 2022 13:11 IST

A draft communique, seen by Reuters ahead of May 25 to 27 talks between the ministers, showed the G7 group would consider committing to a phase-out of coal by 2030

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Droughts, fires and floods: Could climate change decide Australia’s election?Subscriber Only

May 19, 2022 14:22 IST

The country, dubbed a "wrecker" at climate change negotiations, is a major exporter of fossil fuels, largely to East Asia and India.

A United Nation-backed panel plans to release a highly anticipated scientific report on Monday, April 4, 2022, on international efforts to curb climate change before global temperatures reach dangerous levels. (AP/File)

World hurtling to climate danger zone, brakes half-pulled

April 4, 2022 21:11 IST

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change revealed "a litany of broken climate promises” by governments and corporations, accusing them of stoking global warming by clinging to harmful fossil fuels.

A man wades through a water-logged road after rains ahead of Cyclone Yaas at Digha in Purba Medinipur district in the eastern state of West Bengal, India, May 26, 2021. (REUTERS)

Climate change impact far greater, frequent and disruptive than previously understood: IPCC reportSubscriber Only

March 1, 2022 05:49 IST

The IPCC, a global body of scientists that makes periodic reviews of climate science, on Monday released the second part of its sixth assessment report.

The heavy snows were followed by torrents of rain that coated communities in the region with ice, triggering widespread power outages and prompting closures of major roads and offices. (AP)

Alaska records highest ever December temperature

December 29, 2021 12:25 IST

Normally, December is a dry month in interior Alaska because the usually frigid air cannot hold much moisture.

An Afghan farmer uses a donkey to carry water canisters across the dried-out river near Sang-e-Atash, Afghanistan. A severe drought has dramatically worsened the already desperate situation in the country.
(Photo: Mstyslav Chernov/AP)

‘If it rains, they will eat. If it doesn’t, they won’t’: Changing climate parches Afghanistan, exacerbating poverty

December 23, 2021 21:32 IST

🔴 The severe drought, now in its second year, has dramatically worsened the already desperate situation in the country.

Brazil's northeast, long a victim of droughts, is now effectively turning into a desert. The cause? Climate change, and the landowners who are most affected. (Victor Moriyama/The New York Times)

A slow-motion climate disaster: the spread of barren landSubscriber Only

December 3, 2021 13:55 IST

🔴Desertification is a natural disaster playing out in slow motion in areas that are home to a half-billion people, from northern China and North Africa to remote Russia and the American Southwest.

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Air pollution killed over 300,000 in EU in 2019: reportSubscriber Only

November 15, 2021 18:32 IST

New air quality guidelines from the WHO could have saved the lives of almost 180,000 people in 2019, the EU has said.

Delegates pose for a selfie at the plenary room in Glasgow on Saturday. (Photo: AP)

Good COP, bad COP? Takeaways from the new UN climate deal

November 14, 2021 08:36 IST

The focus of the Glasgow talks was not to forge a new treaty but to finalize the one agreed to in Paris six years ago and to build on it by further curbing greenhouse gas emissions, bending the temperature curve closer to levels that don't threaten human civilization.

A person carries a globe model during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, November 8, 2021. (Reuters)

Countries adopt Glasgow Climate Pact after India, China force amendment on coal referenceSubscriber Only

November 15, 2021 01:13 IST

“This is just a very small step forward. The pace is extremely slow. We are moving in inches when we need to gallop in miles,” said Harjeet Singh, senior advisor with Climate Action Network International, a large group of NGOs working in climate space.

Delegates gather inside the venue at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland. (AP)

COP26: Time runs out, issues unresolved, no agreement yetSubscriber Only

November 13, 2021 07:19 IST

Several issues that were supposed to be wrapped up here, including those related to finance and rules for the establishment of a new carbon market, remain unresolved.

Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, speaks at the Opening Ceremony for Cop26 at the SEC Glasgow. Photograph: Karwai Tang/ UK Government

Glasgow summit: hits and misses from COP26 climate meet

November 12, 2021 15:31 IST

Here are some of the highlights from the 26th edition of United Nations Climate Change conference in Scotland.

Climate finance isn’t charity, says Bhupender Yadav at COP26

November 11, 2021 13:17 IST

India recently announced it would stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere by 2070, two decades after the "net zero" target set by the U.S. and 10 years after that of China.