Super El Niño Effect Hits Home: Bengal’s Villages Face Early Climate Breakdown
The first signs of the developing global Super El Niño are no longer confined to satellite maps over the Pacific Ocean.
The first signs of the developing global Super El Niño are no longer confined to satellite maps over the Pacific Ocean.
Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav, on Monday said that India will host the 1st International Big Cat Summit, on June 1 and 2, in New Delhi, inviting industry to play an active part in big cat conservation.
Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav on Tuesday announced the designation of Shekha Jheel Bird Sanctuary in Aligarh as a Ramsar site, taking India’s total to 99 and the state’s tally to 12.
In a warming world, forests are the quiet architecture of survival—and the Indian Forest Service its steadfast sentinel.
In the unfolding environmental history of the twenty–first century, few institutions operate as quietly yet as decisively as the Indian Forest Service (IFS).
The 2024 Lok Sabha elections are over and the vital topic of climate change has once again been ignored. Climate change’s critical importance is overlooked in Indian political discourse due to economic priorities, governance issues and a lack of public awareness, despite the urgent need for climate action given the vulnerability of the Indian subcontinent to climate-induced disasters.
Human-induced warming has risen to 1.19 degrees Celsius over the past decade (2014-2023) – an increase from the 1.14 degrees Celsius seen in 2013-2022
It is very concerning that annual trends in heatwaves now show temperature departures of 5-9 degrees Celsius from the normal summer weather.
In a bold move to combat climate change, India has set an ambitious target of reducing carbon emissions by one billion tonnes by 2030 through forest conservation, aligning with the Paris Agreement.
As New Delhi recorded an unprecedented temperature of 52.9 degrees Celsius, it is evident that northern India is grappling with an extreme heat crisis.
