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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Antarctic ice core reveals how last ice age ended
Analysis of an Antarctic ice core has revealed that warming in the frozen continent began about 22,000 years ago, a few thousand years earlier than suggested by earlier records. The new research shows
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Is dust pollution speeding up melting of Himalayan glaciers?
The International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) proposes to set up a working group to study the impact of dust and black carbon from forest fires on the accelerated melting of snow and glaciers
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Shrinking glaciers won’t affect South Asia water availability: study
Glacier systems that feed two key rivers in South Asia will badly retreat this century, but demands for water are still likely to be met, a study predicted on Sunday.The health of glaciers in the Himalayas
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Climate change bringing heavy rain, landslides to Siachen area: Study
Observing that extreme rainfall events in the Karakorams, which hitherto were not known in this area, have started occurring with alarming frequency, a research paper has stated that this phenomenon was
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Arctic meltdown to cost global economy $60tn
London: The melting Arctic is now being called an “economic time bomb”. Economic modelling shows methane emissions caused by shrinking sea ice from just one area of the Arctic could come with a global
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Global warming 5 million years ago raised sea levels by 20 metres
LONDON: Global warming five million years ago may have caused parts of Antarctica's large ice sheets to melt and sea levels to rise by approximately 20 metres, a new study has claimed. The researchers,
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Global warming 5 million years ago raised sea levels by 20 m
Global warming five million years ago may have caused parts of Antarctica’s large ice sheets to melt and sea levels to rise by approximately 20 metres, a new study has claimed. The researchers, from
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Earth losing 300bn tonnes of ice every year
A satellite has detected that 300 billion tonnes of ice is being lost every year from the Antarctic and Greenland glaciers, dramatically increasing sea levels around the world. The satellite that
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Global warming may raise sea levels by more than 2 metres: Study
Each degree celsius rise in global temperatures is likely to raise world's sea levels by more than 2 metres within the next 2,000 years, a new study has warned. While thermal expansion of the ocean
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Haphazard human intervention’ led to Uttarakhand disaster
A government report has pinned the responsibility of the Uttarakhand disaster on “haphazard human intervention” -- hydel projects, mining, de-forestation and infrastructure for religious tourism, which