Climate Change

India’s environment minister on Wednesday called for a major acceleration in global climate efforts, urging nations to triple renewable energy capacity and significantly scale up adaptation finance. Addressing the silver jubilee edition of…
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Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Tuesday (February 24, 2026) warned that climate change is creating severe environmental risks for the hill state, citing a rise in extreme weather events such as cloudbursts, flash…
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Hot, dry, and windy conditions that fuel wildfires are becoming far more common worldwide, with scientists reporting a dramatic rise in what they call synchronous fire weather (SFW). Over the past four and a half decades, the annual number…
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More than 295 million people worldwide faced hunger and starvation in 2025, driven by conflict, displacement, climate shocks, and economic crises. The troubling reality is that the situation could deteriorate dramatically. My latest…
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In the vulnerable Sundarbans delta, climate change is deepening the hardships faced by so-called “tiger widows” — women whose husbands were killed by Royal Bengal tiger — as environmental degradation and economic stress drive more families…
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Air pollution and extreme heat together pose a far greater threat to human health than either hazard alone, said Soumya Swaminathan, former chief scientist at the World Health Organization, during this week’s Mumbai Climate Week (MCW).…
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U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Wednesday urged the International Energy Agency (IEA) to abandon its focus on climate change and return to its founding mission of energy security. Speaking at an IEA ministerial meeting in Paris on…
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In Istanbul on 12 February, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell and Türkiye’s Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change and COP31 President-Designate Murat Kurum addressed national and international media to…
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A climate researcher from Hebrew University of Jerusalem has cautioned that dust storms like the one that blanketed Israel over the weekend could become increasingly common and occur earlier in the year due to climate change. Assaf…
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The United States is urging governments to pressure Vanuatu to withdraw a United Nations draft resolution supporting a landmark International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that countries have a legal obligation to act on climate change. A…
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