State of the climate in Asia 2023
Asia remained the world’s most disaster-hit region from weather, climate and water-related hazards in 2023. Floods and storms caused the highest number of reported casualties and economic losses, whilst
Climate Change
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Bangkok Beats London In Carbon Pollution
Residents of the Thai capital produce as much carbon pollution as New Yorkers and more than Londoners, a U.N.-backed study released on Wednesday shows. The report, "Bangkok: Assessment Report on Climate Change 2009," underscores the city's carbon-intensive habits but also highlights the threat to Bangkok from rising seas caused by global warming.
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Taking a peek at Alaskan glaciers
NEW DELHI: To celebrate Earth Day, the American Center in association with Kriti Film Club and Swechha is hosting an exhibition of pictures by national award winning photographer Andre Jeanpierre Fanthome that opened at its Kasturba Gandhi Marg premises here on Wednesday.
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Researchers Hope To Clear Mystery From Clouds
Wearing 3-D viewing goggles, scientists peer at virtual pink, blue and purple clouds billowing in cyberspace at a research laboratory in the Dutch city of Delft. By tracking how particles move in and around computer-simulated clouds, they hope to shed light on one of the unknowns of climate forecasting: how these masses of water droplets and ice crystals influence changing temperatures.
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Climate change has brought the world together
CHENNAI: You can tend a garden, recycle materials, ride a bicycle more often than drive a car to contribute in a personal way to the cause of Planet Earth which was imperilled by climate change, Beth Middleton, research ecologist with the National Wetlands Research Center, Louisiana, US, said in her Earth Day lecture on Wednesday.
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Climate change threats
NEW DELHI: The number of people affected by climate-related crises over the next six years is projected to rise annually by 54 per cent to reach 375 million. This could overwhelm the humanitarian aid system, international agency Oxfam said on Wednesday.
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Apnu green Ahmedabad shortlisted among 90 in the world
Ahmedabad: Just how green' is your city?
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Can global warming make Indian monsoon weather less predictable?
Reliable medium range prediction of monsoon weather is crucial for disaster preparedness. Weather in tropics, controlled by fast growing convective instabilities is, however, intrinsically less predictable than that in extra?tropics.
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USEPA award for city scientist
Pune Rajendra Shende, who heads the Ozone Action Group of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), on Tuesday received the prestigious climate protection award instituted by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) at a function held in Washington D. C. Shende hails from Pune and is currently working at the headquarters of the UNEP in Paris.
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Impact of changes in diffuse radiation on the global land carbon sink
More radiation generally increases vegetation photosynthesis, but field studies show that a given amount of diffuse radiation leads to more fixed carbon than direct radiation.
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The carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems in China
This paper analyses the terrestrial carbon balance of China during the 1980s and 1990s using biomass and soil carbon inventories extrapolated by satellite greenness measurements, ecosystem models and atmospheric inversions.