The big news of COP27 was agreement to establish a fund for ‘loss and damage’. But many lamented the summit’s overall outcome, saying it falls short of a sufficient response …
Environment
The 1964 Italian Film That Speaks to the Dread of Climate Change
Michelangelo Antonioni’s 'Red Desert' was far ahead of its time in its depiction of the widespread sense of paralysis at our ability to stop capitalism from destroying the planet.
Shaunak Sen’s ‘All That Breathes’: A Deeply Affecting, Majestically Soaring Masterpiece
The first film to win both the Sundance and Cannes best documentary awards, Sen’s haunting work centres on Delhi-based brothers Nadeem and Saud who devote their lives to saving injured …
A Billionaire Is Responsible for a Million Times More Emissions Than the Average Person: Oxfam Report
When emissions from thee investments of billionaires is calculated, then their carbon emissions are over a million times higher the normal person, the non-profit said.
Glaciers in the Alps Are Melting Faster Than Ever – And 2022 Was Their Worst Summer Yet
Switzerland’s glaciers just lost 6% of their ice in a single year.
The Bones of an Empire: Meditations from Hampi
At the peak of its 300-year history, Vijayanagaram stretched from present day Cuttack in Orissa to Mahim in Maharashtra, all the way down the southern Indian peninsula. And it was …
Little People in the Forest
A walk in the little-known Hollongapar WLS of upper Assam in search of endangered Western Hoolock Gibbons, India's only ape.