Climate Change

The United Nations’ top climate official on Thursday, January 8, led a wave of international criticism against US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from one of the world’s most important climate treaties,…
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US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from several international organisations, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)—the 1992 treaty that underpins…
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COP30, held in Belém, Brazil, from 10–21 November 2025, unfolded at a moment of deep geopolitical and climatic uncertainty. Hosted in the heart of the Amazon, the summit carried immense symbolic weight, even as it remained politically…
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The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) in Belém unfolded amid shifting geopolitical currents that are steadily reshaping global climate diplomacy. With Western climate leadership fragmented, Europe recalibrating its ambitions, and the…
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Microplastics are not only polluting the oceans but are also undermining one of Earth’s most important defences against climate change, a new study has found. Researchers say these tiny plastic fragments are impairing the oceans’ ability to…
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“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…”—except this year, it didn’t. Christmas in Delhi recorded an average temperature of 14°C, unusually warm for late December. Days later, a sharp cold wave swept across north India, delivering…
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As the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) marks its 75th anniversary, global leaders and climate experts have delivered a clear message: at a time of accelerating climate risks, the world’s dependence on the UN weather body has never…
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As India enters 2026, climate change has crossed a decisive threshold. It is no longer an environmental externality or a distant future risk. It has become a measurable economic variable—shaping productivity, inflation, infrastructure…
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A new study published in Nature Climate Change warns that up to 4,000 glaciers worldwide could disappear every year by the mid-2050s if global warming continues on its current path, underscoring the profound consequences of climate policy…
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Wildfires, cyclones, extreme rainfall, flooding and droughts across four continents ranked among the world’s 10 costliest climate disasters this year, causing combined economic losses of about $120 billion, according to a new report. The…
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