India sides with rich nations on climate damage compensation

Indian environmentalists cannot understand why their government is not making common cause with the developing world on the crucial issue of climate damage ...

Sikkim’s forests may lose buffer zones to dams

India’s environment ministry has drafted a notification to reduce width of protected areas around forests to clear dams in a global biodiversity hotspot

People on the move: Disasters and displacement in a changing climate

About 19 million people worldwide were displaced in 2014 by natural disasters, with the Philippines, China and India experienced the highest levels of ...

India needs to be more transparent in snow leopard conservation: US biologist

India supports a robust population of the endangered snow leopard but its conservation-research data is not shared and doesn't contribute to the global efforts ...

Limit global warming for fig tree, wasp survival: British biologist (Interview)

If you want to see the wildlife in the tropics and subtropics, one of the best places to be is beneath a big fig tree. Many species of birds and mammals would ...

Change and Dispossession

Lack of data prevents a planned response to climate change in the Karnali river basin.

Take my breath away: Delhi during Diwali

Firecrackers set off during the festival of Diwali send Delhi’s air pollution levels to dangerous heights.

Climate summit weakened by entrenched differences, yet again

Fundamental differences between developed and developing countries on how to combat climate change remain at the Lima summit, with a weak declaration the ...

Breathing gets more injurious to health in India’s capital

Already notorious as the world’s most polluted city, New Delhi is struggling with worsening air quality, public apathy and government myopia

Readying for an Indian summer

Some cities in central and coastal India are preparing for a hotter-than-ever summer with regional heat action plans that aim to safeguard public health among ...