Rising temperatures and more frequent heat waves have changed the feel of the season for today’s children, compared with their parents and grandparents.
Prolonged droughts have exposed the vulnerability of Zambia and Zimbabwe’s hydropower-dependent electricity systems, triggering severe power shortages and renewing interest in coal.
“What seems to be important,” wrote the British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of fuel is responsible.”
India is beginning to reverse decades of treating native grasslands as 'wastelands,' embracing a new conservation strategy that recognizes their importance for carbon storage, climate resilience, and wildlife.
