Calamities displace 23L every year
India ranks the highest among the world's most disaster-prone countries for displacement of residents, with 23 lakh, on average, uprooted due to calamities such as floods, cyclones and earthquakes.
Sea Level Rise
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Understanding the detectability of potential changes to the 100-year peak storm surge
<p>In many coastal communities, the risks driven by storm surges are motivating substantial investments in flood risk management. The design of adaptive risk management strategies, however, hinges on the
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San Francisco & Oakland Sue 5 Oil Companies For Role In Climate Warming & Rising Seas
The cities of San Francisco and Oakland in California have filed separate lawsuits against 5 of the largest oil companies in the world for the roles played by those companies in anthropogenic climate warming
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Ambitious 1.5C Paris climate target is still possible, new analysis shows
The highly ambitious aim of limiting global warming to less than 1.5C remains in reach, a new scientific analysis shows. The 1.5C target was set as an aspiration by the global Paris climate change deal
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Asia's glaciers to shrink by a third by 2100, threatening water supply of millions
Asia’s mountain glaciers will lose at least a third of their mass through global warming by the century’s end, with dire consequences for millions of people who rely on them for fresh water, researchers
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Water-level attenuation in broad-scale assessments of exposure to coastal flooding: a sensitivity analysis
<p>This study explores the uncertainty introduced in global assessments of coastal flood exposure and risk by not accounting for water level attenuation due to land–surface characteristics. We implement
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Pacific leaders to turn up heat on climate change
The 18-member Pacific Islands Forum includes countries such as Kiribati, which are only metres above sea level and risk being swamped by rising oceans Climate change will dominate discussions when the
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Rising temperatures causing Caspian Sea to evaporate; scientists reveal worrying statistics
The Caspian Sea, located between Europe and Asia, is about 371,000 square kilometres across in size. New Delhi: The discourse on climate change and global warming is far from over. It has taken over
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New study finds that climate change costs will hit Trump country hardest
Humans are causing Earth’s climate to change. We know that. We’ve known it for decades. Okay so what? The follow-up questions should be directed to what the effects of warming will be. What will the costs
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State's sea levels may rise by 0.38 metre by 2050
While Coastal Regulation Zone notifications regulate a 500 metre horizontal region from the high-tide line, the SMP lays down a vertical impact of the sea-level rise Few decades on, structures near