Belem to be a turnaround COP despite global political and economic instability: COP 30 president
Baku to Belem roadmap, how the fund support can reach from 300 billion USD to 1.3 trillion USD annually, is ready
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Road to COP 30: Belem must focus on Sundarban, say experts
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- September 4, 2025
Kolkata curtain raiser outlines priorities for Bengal at November Brazil summit; eye on adaptation finance, air pollution
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India at 79: Northeast is a heaven turning into hell, thanks to unplanned development
- by Biswendu Bhattacharjee
- August 26, 2025
Climate change piggybacks on environmental challenges as construction becomes rampant
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Hindu Kush Himalaya in crisis, 80 percent glaciers may melt within 8 decades
- by Jayanta Basu
- June 25, 2023
According to a global report published recently, Himalayan glaciers disappeared 65 per cent faster in 2010-19 compared to the previous decade and ‘floods and landslides are projected to increase over the coming decades’ The Hindu Kush Himalayan region, which encompasses the highest mountain ranges in the world and contains the largest volume of ice on
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A cyclonic circulation is brewing in Bay of Bengal, to affect in second week of May: IMD
- by Jayanta Basu
- May 3, 2023
A cyclonic circulation is likely to form over the southeast Bay of Bengal in early May, according to a forecast made by India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday. As of now, IMD has predicted only the formation of a low pressure area; various models predict that the circulation may turn into a severe cyclone in
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COP 27: World Meteorological Organization rings alarm on day 1; both concern and hope for Sundarbans
- by Jayanta Basu
- November 8, 2022
COP 27, at Sharm-El-Sheikh; Egypt, gets underway with a stark warning and a sharp reminder that climate change is becoming more threatening with every passing year. India with neighbouring Pakistan and Bangladesh have been identified as being most impacted in ongoing 2022; and the data suggests that lowly placed coastal areas like Sunderbans are likely
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A wasted year, inadequate pledges leading the world to a climate disaster: UN report
- by Jayanta Basu
- October 28, 2022
The world has wasted a crucial year – the last 12 months – in its pursuit to keep the global temperature rise within the limit of 1.5 to 2 degree C as mandated by Paris agreement; and is on course to an unrealistic 2.4-to-2.6-degree C temperature rise by the end of current century; states a
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WWF reports 70 % loss in global wildlife for climate change in last 5 decades; India faces extinction of 1000 species
- by Jayanta Basu
- October 14, 2022
The world has lost nearly 70 percent of its wildlife population in the last five decades and the speed of mass extinction is likely to quicken up unless global climate change can be countered, says a just published global report on biodiversity. The Living Planet Report 2022, flagship publication of WWF that has been released
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Cyclone Asani may miss West Bengal but will trigger heavy rains in state
- by Jayanta Basu
- May 6, 2022
Asani, the first cyclone in 2022 generated in Bay of Bengal, is set to spare West Bengal. The cyclone, brewing in south Andaman sea of Bay of Bengal, is likely to have its landfall between Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and Bhubaneshwar in Orissa by May 10, around 450 km away from West Bengal coast and
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Kolkata one of the 8 most vulnerable megacities of the world to climate change; IPCC
- by Jayanta Basu
- April 24, 2022
Kolkata stands extremely vulnerable to future climatic impacts; pointed out the recent UN report on climate change that has sounded “dire warning about the consequences of inaction” to curtail carbon emission across the world. An analysis of the 3676 page long final report, Working Group II part of Assessment Report 6 published by Intergovernmental Panel