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Experts react to President Xi Jinping’s statement that China will ratchet up its climate ambition by achieving peak emissions before 2030 and striving for carbon neutrality by 2060

Even as India boosts solar power capacity, the country needs to take further policy action to scale up competitive solar equipment manufacturing

In the largest-ever study of glacial lakes, researchers have found that the volume of water in these lakes worldwide has increased by about 50% since 1990

The planet is losing biodiversity at an unprecedented rate, posing grave danger to human health and prosperity, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity warned in its flagship report

The chance of sudden, catastrophic river flooding in the western Himalayas has doubled as climate change leads to an increase in extreme rainfall events

With a range of marine geoengineering field trials moving forward, attention is turning to how research and eventual deployment should be governed globally

Reduced human footprint due to the coronavirus pandemic will not have any effect on global warming unless climate concerns are built into a sustainable recovery

Concerned about the dangers of climate change and environmental degradation, children in India have taken to activism, demanding their rights to a better future

People in the middle ranges of the Indian Himalayas are the most vulnerable to climate change and they are finding it difficult to adapt to the changed weather patterns

The floods, a disaster that Assam suffers every year, now deposit sand on farmlands along rivers because the fertile silt is held back by dams