HealthThe Global Climate and Health Alliance's assessment of 132 national climate plans puts India joint-bottom with Japan and New Zealand, noting its plan does not mention air pollution; Colombia, Nigeria and Cambodia lead.
EnvironmentMeasurements at 13 forest sites in south-west Germany over up to 24 years show soil methane uptake rising by about 3% a year, linked to lower rainfall and higher temperatures, contrary to several global reviews.
EnvironmentDoodh Ganga, the Jhelum tributary that supplies much of uptown Srinagar, is losing snow and glacier melt while construction has buried part of its course, leaving households with dry taps for days.
EnvironmentBritish Antarctic Survey modelling shows West Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" is already committed to ice loss even with ocean melting switched off; its collapse would add about 65cm to global sea level.
EnvironmentDefences built after Thailand's 2011 floods steer water away from Bangkok and industrial zones, but riverside villages in Ayutthaya now flood above head height for months, and families pay to raise their homes.
LivestockA 200-page CSIRO report on more than 80 farm emissions technologies finds that cost, delivery to grazing animals and market rewards, rather than technical performance, decide whether producers adopt them.
FisheriesAbnormal salinity in coastal rivers and a shortage of disease-free fry have cut the share of stocked bagda shrimp farmers manage to harvest from 70-80 percent to about 10 percent, farmers say.
OpinionKhulna University economics PhD researcher Rakib Hossain writes that Bangladesh, like Nepal, keeps paying for disasters it did little to cause, and needs grant-based rather than loan-based climate finance.
EnvironmentAt a meeting with EU and European envoys, state minister Sheikh Faridul Islam said a carbon credit framework with rules for measuring and verifying cuts is under way, alongside solar irrigation, closing polluting brick kilns and planting native trees.
EnvironmentAt the start of Flood Action Week the Environment Agency launched Flood Action Online, a single site for flood risk checks, warnings and Met Office alerts, as the UK government set a target of better flood protection for 200,000 properties by 2029.
On International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, experts said a strong El Nino could raise drought and heatwave risk in Bangladesh, driving up irrigation demand and farm costs, and urged earlier seasonal forecasts so farmers can be warned in time.
OpinionIn a column, Shruti Sharma of TERI School of Advanced Studies argues that climate change is eroding people's sense of a certain future, that the burden falls hardest on those with the fewest resources, and that resilient minds belong in climate planning.
EnvironmentWriting in Down To Earth, Ranjan Panda says the early arrival of winter birds at Odisha's Chilika lake should be read alongside a warming, less predictable lake and Arctic, and calls for fisherfolk to help monitor it.
