As Singapore, New York and Melbourne have shown, cities can mitigate the impact of heatwaves if they have the will to create green infrastructure, explain Amit Kapoor & Bibek Debroy. IMAGE:......
India will launch its own composite index next year to quantify the impact of heat on its population and generate impact-based heat wave alerts for specific locations, the India Meteorological......
If global temperatures rise by 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, around 2.2 billion (220 crore) people living in the Indus River Valley in northern India and eastern Pakistan may......
'Keeping the global temperature below not just 1.5 degree Celsius, even 2 degree Celsius is beyond our reach now. Both are impossible.' IMAGE: A woman uses her bag to protect herself from the sun......
A blistering heatwave swept parts of Delhi with maximum temperatures breaching the 46-degree mark on Monday, straining power grids and posing challenges to outdoor labourers, homeless people and......
If you are in America and are longing for a taste of fresh Indian mangoes without it burning a hole in your pocket, your wait is finally over. A 14 tonne shipment of luscious Kesar......
Politicians and Twitter warriors around the globe have a new buzzword among them: Net zero. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Everyone appears to be keen to state their commitment to net zero,......
Prime Minister Narendra Modi re-constituted a high-level climate panel and dropped well-known environmentalist Sunita Narain and top industry leader Ratan Tata from the council. TERI chairperson R......
The United Nations has launched an independent review of the functioning of its top climate change body IPCC, which has come under much criticism in the recent months for some errors in its......
An expert panel appointed by the United Nations reviewed a draft report that raises the probability that climate change is man-made to 95 per cent and has warned of ever more extreme weather unless......
One Kannada film that is receiving uniform appreciation for its songs and promos is Love Guru. The film directed by debutant Prashanth, who worked as an assistant director in Hindi films like......
The International Indian Film Academy Awards, IIFA, began on a high note in Bangkok as the Bachchan Parivar arrived in the Thai capital to attend the annual event. Also See: Thailand beckons......
Reader Sameer Shaikh sent us this photograph from Mumbai. 'Can you guys believe who I met on my birthday?,' asks Sameer. 'It was my birthday on 10th June and I gave my friends a treat at......