State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
Glacial Melt
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Widespread, rapid grounding line retreat of Pine Island, Thwaites, Smith and Kohler glaciers, West Antarctica from 1992 to 2011
We measure the grounding line retreat of glaciers draining the Amundsen Sea Embayment of West Antarctica using Earth Remote Sensing (ERS-1/2) satellite radar interferometry from 1992 to 2011. Pine Island
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Releasing the cork in Wilkes Basin Antarctica yields unstoppable sea-level rise
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) latest study shows that if East Antarctica’s Wilkes Basin’s rim of ice lets go, it is likely to trigger a persistent ice discharge into the ocean, resulting
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East Antarctica melt could cause a global coastal destruction
Parts of the vast ice sheet of East Antarctica - which collectively holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 53 metres - could begin an irreversible slide into the sea this century, causing an
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In Spiti, hydro power projects seen as threat to fragile ecology
TABO (LAHAUL-SPITI): "At last they entered a world - a valley of leagues where the high hills were fashioned of the mere rubble and refuse from off the knees of the mountains... Surely the Gods live here.
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Time running out to meet global warming target: U.N. report
Government officials and top climate scientists will meet in Berlin from April 7-12 to review the 29-page draft that also estimates the needed shift to low-carbon energies would cost between two and six
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Time running out to meet global warming target: UN report
OSLO: World powers are running out of time to slash their use of high-polluting fossil fuels and stay below agreed limits on global warming, a draft UN study to be approved this week shows. Government
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NASA study finds Arctic melt is now 15 days longer than 30 years ago
The length of the melt season for Arctic sea ice is growing by several days each decade, and an earlier start to the melt season is allowing the Arctic Ocean to absorb enough additional solar radiation
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UN more cautious on Himalayan ice
The UN climate panel on Monday said Himalayan glaciers, whose meltwater is vital for hundreds of millions of people, could lose between half and two-thirds of their mass by 2100. The estimate by the
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Assessment of environmental degradation and impact of hydroelectric projects during the June 2013 disaster in Uttarakhand
Successive state governments in Uttarakhand have pursued economic growth through industrialization without taking into account the fragility of the state’s mountains. A massive rain storm in June 2013
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UN panel on climate change presents gloomy picture for Asia in its fresh report
A UN panel on Monday morning released its much awaited report which assessed impacts of climate change on human lives, natural resources and marine ecosystem across the globe. It predicted a gloomy picture