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Wildfires getting worse globally, governments unprepared, says UN report

A warming planet and changes to land use patterns mean more wildfires will scorch large parts of the globe in coming decades, causing spikes in unhealthy smoke pollution and other problems

Freedom vs habits: Research tracks what people are willing to do for planet

The high cost of electric vehicles has put many off buying them in the past, but their sales rocketed in 2021, when the UK government's ban on selling fossil-fuelled cars by 2030 was announced

India lost 259 bn hours of labour annually because of global warming

Productive hours lost to heat and humidity globally are about 400 billion hours greater than previous estimates, roughly the same as the amount of work hours lost during the Covid-19 pandemic

2021 one of the seven warmest years on record: World Meteorological Org

Although average global temperatures were temporarily cooled by the 2020-2022 La Nina events, 2021 was still one of the seven warmest years on record

Cities contribute 80% to global GDP, account for 75% emissions: Report

Cities contribute 80 per cent to global GDP -- but they also account for 75 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions

Corporate climate action growing; more needed to meet net-zero: WEF study

Climate action is growing across public and private sectors, but more needs to be done to meet the net-zero challenge, the World Economic Forum said in a new study published on Monday

One of the world's wealthiest oil exporting nations is becoming unliveable

Parts of Kuwait could get as much as 4.5C hotter from 2071 to 2100 compared with the historical average

India getting warmer, hotter: 2021 fifth warmest year since 1901, says IMD

2012-2021 warmest decade on record; 1,750 weather-related deaths last year

2021 sixth hottest year on record, last 8 years the warmest, says NASA

Earth's global average surface temperature in 2021 tied 2018 as the sixth warmest year on record, and the past eight years are the warmest, according to an independent analysis done by NASA and NOAA.

'House is a furnace': Argentina roasts in record-setting heat wave

Hundreds of thousands of people were left without electricity when power grids failed in and around populous capital city Buenos Aires.

Net-zero emissions and how can the world get there?

As countries are realising the effects of global warming, they are moving towards net-zero emissions. Here's an explainer on net-zero emissions and what it may take for the world to achieve the target

Arctic continues to decline from global warming at alarming rate: Study

The Arctic continues to deteriorate from global warming, not setting as many records this year as in the past, but still changing so rapidly that federal scientists call it alarming

Study suggests melting glaciers will produce new salmon habitat

Spawning streams are overheating and droughts are drying up salmon habitats entirely, impacting many food webs from the Rocky Mountains and Coast Ranges to the Pacific Ocean.

How air cooling technologies are making rising global temperature worse

Air conditioners and refrigerators use hydrofluorocarbons, which heat up the earth.

India needs $10.1 trn to achieve net-zero emission by 2070: Report

India will require a total investment of $10.1 trillion to achieve net-zero emissions by 2070, while the nation could face a shortfall of $3.5 trillion, a study said

With COP26 in overtime, latest draft deal keeps eye on climate ambition

The draft deals urged rich countries to double climate adaptation finance by 2025 from 2019 levels

Leading the climate charge: India sets hard targets at COP26

Financial modelling of climate risks needs to be strengthened and supervisory tools for a more rigorous analysis of climate risks from businesses need to be reinforced

New COP26 draft declaration waters down calls to end fossil fuel use

The COP26, which is due to conclude on Friday, is seen as the world's last chance to reach meaningful commitments to fulfil the goals set out by the 2015 Paris Agreement

Recent global warming 'unprecedented' in 24,000 years, finds study

The speed of human-caused global warming over the last 150 years is faster than anything seen since the last ice age, about 24,000 years ago, according to a study

Covid LIVE: Kerala clocks 7,540 new cases, 259 deaths in last 24 hrs

Live news updates: The world is on track for disastrous levels of global heating despite carbon-cutting pledges from governments at the UN COP26 summit, say analysts.