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Scientists say Donald Trump job cuts threaten climate research, public safety

The Trump administration appears to be following Project 2025, a conservative policy blueprint that calls NOAA one of the "main drivers of the climate change alarm industry" and proposes breaking it up.
Published on Mar 10, 2025 07:18 AM IST

Vigyan Yuva awardee Roxy Mathew Koll: Mapping climate change

Roxy Mathew Koll, winner of this year’s Vigyan Yuva Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award for Earth Scientist
Updated on Aug 24, 2024 04:20 PM IST

Forest cover replaced by plantation crops may have contributed to Wayanad tragedy

Roughly half of Kerala is hilly and mountainous, making it prone to landslides. (PTI)
Published on Jul 30, 2024 12:46 PM IST

Cause and Effect | 2023 was a year of records, it also broke all records

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TOPSHOT - Traffic warden Rai Rogers mans his street corner during an 8-hour shift under the hot sun in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 12, 2023, where temperatures reached 106 degrees amid an ongoing heatwave. More than 50 million Americans are set to bake under dangerously high temperatures this week, from California to Texas to Florida, as a heat wave builds across the southern United States. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)
Published on Jan 13, 2024 09:13 AM IST

British climate activist arrested after her group attacks HSBC, Barclays banks

File Photo: Co-founder of the Extinction Rebellion group, Gail Bradbrook, poses as she and others block the road during an Extinction Rebellion demonstration at Bank, in the city of London, Britain on October 14, 2019.
Published on May 11, 2021 03:38 PM IST

Climate scientists turn Mount Everest into a lab

The Himalayas are commonly called the ‘Third Pole’ — the first and second being the North and South ones — because of the scale of the ice there.
Updated on Nov 24, 2020 07:41 PM IST

Scientists say 2020 may smash heat record

Global year-to-date temperatures show little deviation from 2016, the warmest calendar year recorded so far. (Representational Image)
Updated on Feb 22, 2021 03:58 PM IST

Greta Thunberg demands ‘crisis’ response to climate change

The letter called for climate policies to be designed to protect workers and the most vulnerable and reduce economic, racial and gender inequalities, as well as moves to “safeguard and protect” democracy.
Published on Feb 22, 2021 04:08 PM IST

COP25: Deliver on commitments

Developed countries have also not delivered on their pre-2020 commitments, the most important among them being mobilising $100 billion per year by 2020 to support developing nations in mitigating and adapting to impacts
Updated on Dec 10, 2019 06:33 PM IST

Over 11,000 scientists around the world declare climate emergency

More than 11,000 experts from around the world are calling for a critical addition to the main strategy of dumping fossil fuels for renewable energy: there needs to be far fewer humans on the planet.
Updated on Nov 06, 2019 07:25 AM IST

Meet the CO2-praising physicist behind the latest Trump climate push

William Happer is a National Security Council technology adviser spearheading an initiative to create a presidential committee on climate.
Updated on Feb 23, 2019 08:00 AM IST

UN report on climate change sets off alarm bells

All countries must make rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes across sectors to keep the increase to within 1.5°C over pre-industrial levels to stop the devastating consequences of climate change, said the UN report in its most dire risk assessment ever
Updated on Oct 08, 2018 08:19 PM IST

We need to mainstream the climate conversation

One of the fundamental components of building this much-needed resilience is to mainstream the climate conversation, which unfortunately still remains an elite topic in India (though poorer sections will be hit much harder).
Updated on Sep 26, 2018 01:09 PM IST

States need to roll out proper climate adaptation techniques

The India Meteorological Department has said that the rainfall in June, the first month of the monsoon, was below the mark, with the country recording a deficit of about 5% as of June 30. The shortfall, the IMD said, may get worse
Published on Jul 04, 2018 12:22 PM IST