Climate impacts are unfolding faster than expected and scientists have been surprised by the speed of temperature rise, the chief of the United Nations' climate science panel has said. IMAGE: A......
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:......
Environmentalist R K Pachauri, a former The Energy and Resources Institute chief under whose chairmanship the United Nations's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize in......
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......
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......
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......
While re-acknowledging that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had erred in projecting the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers due to global warming, R K Pachauri, who chairs the panel,......
United Nations climate panel chief Rajendra Pachauri, facing criticism for errors in a landmark report, has refused to quit, saying that he will remain with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate......
After locking horns with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changeon the glacier melting issue, environment minister Jairam Ramesh said on Thursday the research of the Indian Panel on Climate......