Forest

The way aheadThe impact of mining spreads across all aspects of the environment – biophysical and psycho-cultural – and is largely by virtue of the geological and ecological conditions of mining. Therefore, accepting the nature of the impact, the industry needs to evolve mitigation measures to contain the damage, and the regulatory authorities are duty-bound to ensure that the sector and the specific industries comply with the highest standards.

Mountains

Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya

The snow and ice stored within the magnificent arc of high-altitude glaciers in the Greater Himalaya are crucial sources of seasonal water for almost every major river system of Asia, from the Indus in the west to the Yellow in the east, with the Ganges, Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, and Yangtze Rivers between. If current melt rates continue, these glaciers will be unable to maintain mass balance, ultimately disrupting the water supply to hundreds of millions of people downstream.

Coastal

The Coast isn't Clear: Climate Change & India's Coastal Communities

Climate change in coastal regions has of late taken
a very serious turn for the worse, with its
consequences going beyond damage to the coast.
There appear to be other widespread
environmental disasters in the form of
displacement of human settlements due to drastic
temperature change and increase in sea-levels that
are plaguing our world. Such issues only highlight
the fact that those who have least contributed
to the problem are the biggest victims of these
adverse environmental consequences....

A framework for social adaptation to climate change: sustaining tropical coastal communities and industries

Climate change is hitting coastal areas hard: rises in sea levels, ocean acidification, extreme events, bleaching and death of coral are all climate impacts hich will require adjustments socially and economically. This report provides practical guidance for coastalcommunities and industries to adapt to climate change.

Urban

Smear Campaign

A new pollution index names top offenders...

Mumbye

The financial capital of India could face damages worth Rs 35,00,000 crore by 2050 because of climate change. Between 1901 and 2007, it registered a mean temperature rise of 1.62°C...

Arid

Wrong policies behind Rajasthan's water crisis

Desert state Rajasthan, which has long been renowned for its traditional water harvesting methods, is today facing an acute water crisis.

Policy makers blame the deficit rainfall for the crisis, but in fact misplaced agriculture and development policies have created the emergency.

Semi Arid

Energy

Solar Mission: More light needed The government's focus on solar energy is driven by the need to demonstrate a commitment to renewable energy. But equity too is vital for the success of the National Solar Mission.

Agriculture

Millets: Future of Food and Farming

Millets need very little water for their production. Compared to irrigated commodity crops currently promoted by policy measures, millets and require just around 25% of the rainfall regime demanded by crops such as sugarcane and banana. Thus, they do not burden the state with demands for irrigation or power. Millets do not demand chemical fertilizers. In fact, under dry land conditions, millets grow better in the absence of chemical fertilizers. Therefore, most millet farmers grow them using farmyard manure under purely ecofriendly conditions.

China drought highlights future climate threats

Yunnan's worst drought for many years has been exacerbated by destruction of forest cover and a history of poor water management.

Health

Construction Industry

Building green and thinking greenBeyond planting trees, what do we need to be really doing that makes for the difference we seek in use and abuse of resources? Chandrashekar Hariharan presents some directions that consumers, citizens, businessmen need to be taking...

Transport

Beijingers get back on their bikesThese battery-powered, and virtually silent, machines have become increasingly common on the streets of the Chinese capital...

Water

Letter to The Prime Minister on the National Water Mission

In finalizing  India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) and the various missions, we would like you to instruct the advisory committee to delve into some of the concerns and initiate a wide-spread participatory process to take the National Water Mission ahead. We are also pointing some general concerns about the NAPCC for your kind consideration.

Cochabamba, The Water Wars And Climate Change

In what was dubbed the Water Wars, people from around Bolivia converged on Cochabamba to overturn the privatization of the public water system.

Articles on Science of Climate Change

The Distracting Debate Over Climate Certainty

...Now the foes of limits on greenhouse gases have the ball, proclaiming the death of global warming science on the basis of flaws in the climate panel’s report...

Glacier estimate is on thin iceIPCC may modify its Himalayan melting forecasts...

Summary for Policy Makers

Stern Report

IPCC Reports

FAQs

Global

Extreme warming in Arctic will cause colder winters—and political gridlock

A warmer Arctic climate is influencing the air pressure at the North Pole and shifting wind patterns on our planet. We can expect more cold and snowy winters in Europe, eastern Asia and eastern North America...

Fouling up the airIndia has become collusive in the weak and inequitable Copenhagen Accord. The government must correct course if India’s poor are not to suffer further...

Civil Society

World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth Today,  our Mother Earth is wounded and the future of humanity is in danger...

System change – not climate change...sustainable transition of our societies to a form that will ensure the rights of life...

CDM
Ashes To Ashes‘Carbon credit’ projects are doing more bad than good in India...