Written against the backdrop of continuing suicides among Indian farmers, a new book describes the impact of the country’s agricultural crisis on women Read more »
India’s farmer suicides: the women left behind
International conference on community based adaptation to climate change in Dhaka
Climate change experts head to “adaptation capital of the world” Read more »
China’s geoengineering plans dismissed as “fantasy”
The authorities are increasing their cloud-seeding ambitions in response to drought, but many experts are sceptical about the benefits Read more »
Climate change confuses Kashmir’s farmers
Faced with increasing frequency of droughts, and with irrigation facilities available to less than half the farms, rice farmers in Kashmir are wondering how to deal with water shortage. Read more »
New programme to study Himalayan glaciers systematically
The Himalayan glaciers are shrinking - no sentence in the climate change debate has generated more controversy. Despite that, there is an astounding lack of knowledge about the state of these glaciers. A new joint programme of the governments of India and Switzerland hopes to start changing that in a systematic manner. Read more »
Aviation emissions may jump manifold: study
The global aviation industry has committed that its greenhouse gas emissions will not increase after 2020, and by 2050 emissions will be halved from 2005 levels. But a recent study projects that aviation emissions will actually increase between 50 and 500% instead, unless market-based measures are used. Read more »
China steps up conservation work in threatened Tibet
With climate change and overgrazing taking a toll on the landscape, efforts are being made to preserve one of the planet’s wildest places. Read more »