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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Smoke from Indian religious sites 'melting Himalayan glaciers'
Holy smoke arising from Hindu funeral pyres, Muslim cemeteries and Buddhist temples are responsible for almost a quarter of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming on the Indian subcontinent and
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Researchers link melting Arctic Sea ice to increased summer rainfall in Northwest Europe
A new report conducted by researchers at the University of Exeter offers insight into why Northwest Europe experienced extraordinarily wet summers between 2007 and 2012, stating that melting sea ice and
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Rising Summer Temperatures Threaten Eastern Siberia
The high cliffs of Eastern Siberia, have been eroding at a relatively fast pace which researchers are attributing to rising summer temperatures in the Russian permafrost regions as well as the retreat
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Smoke from religious sites 'melting Himalayan glaciers'
LONDON: Holy smoke arising from Hindu funeral pyres, Muslim cemeteries and Buddhist temples are responsible for almost a quarter of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming on the Indian subcontinent
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Bhutan State of Environment Report: The Monthly Overview, October, 2013
Bhutan will have a fully documented realigned national action plan (NAP) to combat land degradation by January next year, which would then be endorsed by the government and submitted to the United Nations convention to combat desertification (UNCCD). Read more in this October 2013 edition of the Monthly Bhutan State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. Read and Share.
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Climate change report will point a finger at humans
A landmark report from the world's top climate scientists this week is likely to say with heightened certainty that humans are behind the planet's rising temperatures, and that surface temperatures are
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Community-based flood and glacial lake project initiated
In order to reduce human casualties and economic losses to glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) and catastrophic flashfloods in the high-altitude and Tarai districts, respectively, the government on Wednesday
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Stubborn things
IN 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a body of scientists, said the glaciers of the Himalayas could melt by 2035. This was complete fiction. It also said global surface temperatures
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Stubborn things
IN 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a body of scientists, said the glaciers of the Himalayas could melt by 2035. This was complete fiction. It also said global surface temperatures
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Planet racing towards 2°C temperature rise
May Reach Tipping Point In 25 Yrs: IPCC The report issued on September 27 by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may sound similar to the one issued five years ago — after all, it says that humanity is causing climate change, though with more certainty. But on two key aspects this report has categorically said what was never said before.