global warming

Explained | Why a petrostate holding this year’s climate talks

By tradition, the UN climate summit is supposed to take place in a different part of the world each year. Yet, it won’t be lost on any of the attendees in Baku, the Azerbaijani capital, that the talks are being hosted by an autocratic government whose economy relies almost entirely on fossil fuels.

11 November 2024, 07:39 IST

Explained | Why a petrostate holding this year’s climate talks

11 November 2024, 07:39 IST

Explained | A guide to COP29 climate jargon

With UN climate talks tackling complex topics from energy policy to global financial aid, the annual summit has developed its own ever-growing lexicon. Here's a guide.

11 November 2024, 07:26 IST

Explained | A guide to COP29 climate jargon

11 November 2024, 07:26 IST

Explained | What are the key issues at the COP29 UN climate summit in Baku?

Last year's COP28 summit in Dubai ended with countries agreeing for the first time to "transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems."

07 November 2024, 07:29 IST

Explained | What are the key issues at the COP29 UN climate summit in Baku?

07 November 2024, 07:29 IST

2024 'almost certain' to be warmest year and first above 1.5 degree Celsius: European climate agency

The average global temperature for the first 10 months of 2024 (January to October) was 0.71 degrees Celsius higher than the 1991-2020 average, making it the warmest on record for this period and 0.16 degrees Celsius warmer than the same period in 2023.

07 November 2024, 04:55 IST

2024 'almost certain' to be warmest year and first above 1.5 degree Celsius: European climate agency

07 November 2024, 04:55 IST

Climate change may hit India’s GDP by 25% by 2070: ADB

The impact of climate change could reduce GDP in developing Asia-Pacific by 17.9% by 2070 under a high-end greenhouse gas emissions scenario, rising to 41% by 2100, as per the ADB’s Asia-Pacific climate report.

31 October 2024, 12:01 IST

Climate change may hit India’s GDP by 25% by 2070: ADB

31 October 2024, 12:01 IST

Current climate plans fall miles short of what's needed to limit warming to 1.5 deg C: UN report

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a UN body that evaluates climate science, said global emissions need to be reduced by 43 per cent by 2030 and 60 per cent by 2035 to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

28 October 2024, 10:27 IST

Current climate plans fall miles short of what's needed to limit warming to 1.5 deg C: UN report

28 October 2024, 10:27 IST

Releasing diamond dust into earth's atmosphere can keep planet cooler: Study

25 October 2024, 09:21 IST

Releasing diamond dust into earth's atmosphere can keep planet cooler: Study

25 October 2024, 09:21 IST

The global methane bomb is starting to detonate

With each passing year, our own relatively puny emissions are pushing these ancient cycles further out of balance. If they turn against us, the effects could be devastating.

24 October 2024, 06:14 IST

The global methane bomb is starting to detonate

24 October 2024, 06:14 IST

Global warming creating new weather patterns leading to floods, heatwaves: Study

Till now, studies have largely focussed on the shifts in average regional weather patterns but have not been able to identify trends of for each daily weather pattern. The new study enables 'a direct study of their (weather patterns') association with extreme events'.

14 October 2024, 17:51 IST

Global warming creating new weather patterns leading to floods, heatwaves: Study

14 October 2024, 17:51 IST

Explained | How global warming made Hurricane Milton more intense and destructive

Milton may have caused roughly twice as much property damage as that hypothetical storm in a cooler world, a separate team of researchers estimated.

11 October 2024, 22:02 IST

Explained | How global warming made Hurricane Milton more intense and destructive

11 October 2024, 22:02 IST