A "heat season" used to be a straightforward concept: put away the sweaters, toughen up for a couple of harsh seasons, and then chill.

The world's attitude towards heat has changed. It was a seasonal malady it was a miserable summer, a miserable hot spell, a tale which died with the first cool front.

The European Union has disburse Greece the biggest single cheque it has issued under its Social Climate Fund and the timing of the transaction is as significant as the amount.

The world was for 10 years a temperature that was not to be crossed. So this week the United Nations is effectively giving in that line is going to be crossed regardless, and not in a begrudging manner but more in a triage kind of way.

It deserves a moment's reflection, because it helps to understand why the argument has the effect it has in Delhi, Jakarta or Lagos.

On Tuesday morning, the death toll due to the last week's flash flood along the border between Nepal and China rose over 1,000, and continues to rise.

In the fold of the valleys at Kulathupuzha, Anchal and Shendurney in the southern part of Kerala, a forest is silently but inexorably disappearing in less than a wink.