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Topic: Climate

Here’s what lies behind India’s rising heatwaves even before ‘hot season’ kicked in

2022 March was the hottest in 122 years since the IMD started maintaining records. Know why extreme heat waves are rising in India.

Volatile rains, low crop yields – What IMD prediction of ‘normal monsoon’ hides

Anything that disrupts monsoons, affects the economy. And 2022 won't be different.

Gujarat, Kerala & Punjab top 3 performers in Niti Aayog’s new energy & climate index

Niti Aayog hopes the new index will help ‘bridge’ policy gaps and initiate dialogue to meet climate goals.

Green bonds, push for indigenous solar panels, EVs: Spotlight on climate change in Budget 2022

FM Nirmala Sitharaman calls climate change ‘strongest negative externalities that affect India, other countries’, says focus is on reducing dependence on non-renewable energy.

Why Coimbatore, Indore & Surat will decide success of India’s urbanisation. Not Mumbai & Delhi

The big metros don’t do well in city rankings, in India or internationally. Mumbai and Delhi rarely rank high, and the biggest European, American, and Chinese cities are not the most liveable either.

Understanding human footprint on climate: Research for which 3 scientists got Physics Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 was awarded jointly to three scientists — the duo of Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann, and Giorgio Parisi — for their work on the physics of complex systems including climate modelling

Focused and responsible digitalisation can help us meet global climate goals by 2050

A digital backbone can accelerate the movement of a circular economy where products, components, and materials are used and reused efficiently.

US Special Presidential Envoy for climate John Kerry to travel to India, Bangladesh & UAE

Kerry would travel from 1-9 April for consultations on increasing climate ambition ahead of Joe Biden's Leaders' Summit on Climate, for which PM Modi has been invited.

How can you stop climate free riders like China? Join the ‘carbon club’

Only way to slow climate change is to dramatically reduce planetwide emissions of greenhouse gases. And the best approach to that is to put a price on carbon that’s high & rising.

Now, Facebook has a new plan to fight climate misinformation

Facebook is full of misinformation on climate change and climate disasters, which, when noticed and reported by users, is sent to the company’s third-party fact-checkers.

On Camera

Why electoral ‘reform’ is cause for worry—the Modi govt uses it to cement political hold

‘Reform to deform' is a better description of the Modi government’s approach to election procedures. This is not hyperbole. Consider the record.

Niti Aayog CEO has a message for power stakeholders. Buckle up for surge to feed EVs, data centres

Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.

Dubai Tejas crash revives focus on advanced, fully automated safety systems

Dubai airshow crash & pilot death have rekindled concerns over pilot safety, and need for smarter automated systems that can step in when G-forces, temporary loss of consciousness hit the pilot.

Asim Munir & Pakistan’s Failed Marshal Doctrine

None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.