The year 2024 was the hottest year on record, and the first with a global average temperature 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) confirmed......
States are mandated to develop and implement 'heat HAPs' for prevention of heat-induced diseases. But most do not go beyond standard advisory on heat prevention. IMAGE: Women covering themselves......
Fresh from his tour to the United States where he carried a piece of ice from a glacier in Ladakh to flag their fast melting, climate activist Sonam Wangchuk has written an open letter to Prime......
The effort is to make the PM's interaction with the diaspora at Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Zayed Sports city stadium on February 13 the largest he has addressed. IMAGE: UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al......
Dominic Xavier offers his take on the UN's climate conference, COP26 in Glasgow, where top world leaders -- barring Xi Jinping and Vladmir Putin -- will discuss how to reduce greenhouse gas......
Talks on global climate finance virtually ground to a halt last week at COP29, the annual United Nations (UN) Climate Change event in Baku, Azerbaijan, as the developed world, led by the European......
India needs to recognise and address challenges posed by its dependence on China for critical minerals and examine the implications of phasing down coal on bank balance sheets as it accelerates its......
In what could come as a piece of good news, hunger in India — as measured by the Prevalence of Undernourishment (PoU) by the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)......
Pakistan has nominated its candidate Tariq Banuri for the position of the head of United Nations Framework on Climate Change that will be filled by July when the current UN Climate chief Yvo de......
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday met Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates on the sidelines of the climate summit here and discussed ways to further sustainable......
'Now, no one can stop me from making music till the day I die.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Ricky Kej/Instagram With two Grammys in the Best New Age Album category -- for Winds of Samsara in 2015......
IMAGE: Workers in PPE stand next to the Olympic rings inside the closed loop area near the National Stadium, or the Bird's Nest, where the opening and closing ceremonies of Beijing 2022 Winter......