As climate change intensifies and urban temperatures soar, it’s time to rethink how we build and live. The Down To Earth multimedia team in collaboration with CSE's Habitat team presents a new series: Cool Habitats.
In this episode of Urban Heatscapes, we are looking at Bengaluru. Bengaluru, once known as India’s Garden City, is now heating up faster than ever.
Chennai, less than 1500km from the equator, is a city where the sun never seems to take a break and instead crashes down like an angry wave impacting daily lives and livelihoods.
Heat is becoming a common denominator for all. Heat is not leaving us no matter where we go in this country.
How far are you willing to go for water and firewood? For us, things are instant,
Brahmaputra is one of the highest and deepest rivers in the world, flowing 1,700 km through Tibet before entering India. It flows east for the majority of its course and then takes a sharp turn down south into India.
On Monday, 20th January 2025, Donald Trump returned to the White House for his second Presidential term. An avid climate denier, Trump’s return signals even greater risk to the developing world.
CSE's Climate Change team to kick off 2025 with a conversation with policy expert Tim Sahay of the Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab at Johns Hopkins University, and co-creator of the Polycrisis newsletter and community.
The Construction and Demolition Waste Management Rules, introduced by the MoEFCC in 2016, establish a regulatory framework for the effective management of C&D waste in India.
In an increasingly climate-risked world, what should be our food like? The fourth book in our First Food series brings you some answers.
The 16 th UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will kick off in October.
The 16th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity begins in Colombia next week. Parties are meeting for the first time since the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework was adopted in December 2022 in Montreal, Canada.
International trade isn't just about exchanging goods and services across borders —there's something else that travels with every shipment: / carbon emissions.
Climate finance is going to be the headline issue at the 29th United Nations Conference of Parties (COP 29) on climate change
Access to water is a fundamental human right. But for many, it is still a luxury. Africa’s average basic drinking