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Monsoon still matters: 2024 promises good rains. But Indian agri is pushing its luck with current water usage practices
April 17, 2024, 9:04 AM IST
MD’s first southwest monsoon forecast on Monday said that in 2024 we are in for an above normal rainfall. It’s expected to be 106% of the long period average of 87 cm. It’s positive for…
April 17, 2024, 9:04 AM IST
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Here’s a hot button election issue: Will soaring temperatures keep people from voting? 2019 data offers some clues
April 16, 2024, 8:35 AM IST
The joke goes that Sheohar in Bihar logged 45 – for both temperature (°C) on polling day and turnout (%). It may soon not be a joke, given the number of constituencies where turnout and…
April 16, 2024, 8:35 AM IST
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A tale of two climate change verdicts, and what they mean
April 14, 2024, 3:00 AM IST
This week, two judgments were delivered by two of the world’s most watched courts: the Indian Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) broadly held that people have a legal right to…
April 14, 2024, 3:00 AM IST
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Waste to energy: Smokescreen or solution?
April 12, 2024, 5:21 PM IST
Waste to energy plants in India are polluting, costly, and hazardous. So why are they still being built? Across the world, waste is beginning to be viewed as a resource and not just seen as…
April 12, 2024, 5:21 PM IST
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The geopolitics of climate: Preventing climate conflict and mass displacement
April 10, 2024, 3:52 PM IST
Throughout history, the global climate and its shifts have influenced the course of history and culture. While its casual gait has been below the threshold of serious scientific curiosity until a little over a century…
April 10, 2024, 3:52 PM IST
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Climate change recognized as a fundamental right in India: Implications and solutions
April 10, 2024, 3:33 PM IST
In a historic decision on April 5, 2024, the Supreme Court of India made a profound declaration, acknowledging climate change as intricately linked with fundamental rights, particularly the rights to life and equality. This landmark…
April 10, 2024, 3:33 PM IST
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Humanity’s last castle: Paris accord on climate change
April 4, 2024, 4:36 PM IST
Since coming into force in 2015, the Paris Agreement has emerged as the bastion of hope and one of the most consequential multilateral treaties balancing vastly conflicting political and economic interests under the existential threat…
April 4, 2024, 4:36 PM IST
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Comprehending the future of clean fuels & products
April 3, 2024, 4:34 PM IST
The future of clean fuels and products has become a highly significant topic in current discussions, reflecting the urgent need to address environmental concerns and reduce the negative impacts of climate change on a worldwide…
April 3, 2024, 4:34 PM IST
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Who’s to blame for the world’s most polluted capital?
March 21, 2024, 8:21 AM IST
Delhi’s pollution levels keep rising with rising GRAP restrictions. This plan is only spiking congestion and chaos. Eight years in, it needs replacing with something that actually works Even as Delhi was enjoying a rare…
March 21, 2024, 8:21 AM IST
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Forests as living spirit of the cosmos
March 21, 2024, 8:03 AM IST
By: Vir Singh Forests of Earth are natural cradles for all terrestrial life. Indian culture is originally an Aranya culture, forest-based culture. All the enlightening epics of Hindu culture and our best poetic work, dramas,…
March 21, 2024, 8:03 AM IST
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The weird weather of climate politics
March 20, 2024, 10:34 AM IST
At the turn of the year, a Guardian headline ruefully proclaimed that the world would look back at 2023 as the year humanity exposed its inability to tackle the climate crisis. Indeed, despite intensifying real-world evidence on…
March 20, 2024, 10:34 AM IST
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From flickering to flourishing: The rise of Round-the-Clock renewables in India
March 18, 2024, 9:32 PM IST
For decades, India’s energy landscape has been a story of flickering hope and frustrating limitations. We have chased the dream of clean, reliable power, battling the demons of rising fuel costs and dependence on imported…
March 18, 2024, 9:32 PM IST
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Climate-o-nomics & Inequality: Addressing the obvious
March 12, 2024, 10:23 AM IST
In 2020, as the world battled a calamity of biblical proportions, the World Bank published an ominous observation indicating that at least 130 million more people could be pushed into poverty by 2030 due to irreversible climate…
March 12, 2024, 10:23 AM IST
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Carbon: The neo currency
March 5, 2024, 4:05 PM IST
As decarbonization becomes the rallying cry for the global climate agenda to save the planet on a collision course with Nature, carbon steadily transforms from an overlooked environmental externality into a measurable impact currency carrying…
March 5, 2024, 4:05 PM IST
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Half the world votes this year, will climate take center stage in campaigns?
February 29, 2024, 11:21 PM IST
Did you know this year is host to the greatest spectacle of democracy, not just in India but worldwide, as a whopping 64 countries (plus, the European Union elections) prepare for their national elections in 2024?…
February 29, 2024, 11:21 PM IST
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Rule of jungle: You can’t just plant a forest
February 21, 2024, 8:27 AM IST
Planting some trees doesn’t begin to compensate for ecological costs of destroying forests Over the last few months, the legal regime that covers India’s forests has been comprehensively overhauled with the amendment to the Forest…
February 21, 2024, 8:27 AM IST
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Shillong holds its first global water meet
February 17, 2024, 6:46 PM IST
Last week saw the Meghalaya government host its first ever International Water Conclave 2024 at Shillong. The State government invited delegates from other countries like Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal, Thailand and Cambodia. The sharing and learning…
February 17, 2024, 6:46 PM IST
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Mission net zero: A plausible reality or a distant dream?
February 16, 2024, 3:42 PM IST
With the world racing fast towards the climate cliff, achieving “net-zero” carbon emissions by 2050, a vision enshrined in the Paris Agreement, has become the rallying cry for galvanizing the climate action agendas worldwide. However,…
February 16, 2024, 3:42 PM IST
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Fire, Flood, Storms & Humanity’s Sojourn Into Climate Oblivion
January 28, 2024, 3:06 PM IST
The devastating earthquake in Nepal in early November, claiming over 150 lives, is perhaps the latest reminder of the triviality of human arrogance before Gaia’s resolve. While this retaliation against the remorseless anthropogenic encroachment of…
January 28, 2024, 3:06 PM IST
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With mindful choices, all of us can become sustainability champions
January 16, 2024, 8:37 PM IST
In September 2023, at a convening of policymakers and leaders from around the world at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, I spent time with Mia Amor Mottley, the Prime Minister of…
January 16, 2024, 8:37 PM IST
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