Every epoch of our culture and every era in the history of our society has its own pet words. These are the words that gain popularity through the human effort to understand and describe a new reality. The world now faces extreme climate events daily, compelling us to learn the vocabulary that helps us make sense of these changes. Words and usages such as carbon neutral, net zero emission, greenhouse effect, global warming, and many more are going to be a common part of our m

Though it took 25,000 years for the South American civilisations to come of age, its destruction needed only one or two centuries to complete as the European colonisers reached this land of sun and rain.

Russia cannot remain under the grand illusion of a brighter economic future to be rung in by climate change. Choosing such a path could only lead to global isolation and disastrous domestic consequences for its economic health and the safety and food security of its people.

North Atlantic hurricanes, the most notorious of the winds of the world, showed their real ferocious face to recorded history in 1780. That year, the Americas and the Caribbean Islands reeled under the worst-ever storms in history, the death toll of which rose to more than 20000 in a couple of weeks. These hurricanes prompted many settlers to abandon their plantations in the Americas and sail back to the safety of European shores.

Sometimes, humans intentionally transport a plant or seed to a new location when they travel. Seeds can also travel by attaching themselves to a human body or a vehicle, reaching new environments.

The Western Ghats house 50% of the total amphibian species of the whole of India. Thirty percent of the world population of Asian elephants resides in this forest stretch. This wilderness is also home to 17% of the tigers that the world is left with.

The Aral Sea nowadays is the skeletons of fishing vessels protruding from its exposed sandy bottom like ghosts of another world.