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 warming faster than thought
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, whose melt currently contributes substantially to sea level rise each year, is warming twice as quickly as previously thought, a new study has found. The temperature record
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Arctic summers may become ice-free: UN
Leaked Report Says Meltdown 90-100% Likely Of all the warnings about dramatic effects of climate change, a leaked draft UN report is the most vigorous in arguing that fears of an ice-free Arctic Ocean
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Refreezing the Arctic can help fight climate crisis
An American scientist has offered a radical solution to global warming by suggesting that we could refreeze the Arctic using a few modified jets. David Keith, professor of applied physics at Harvard
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Consensus on climate evades nations
United Nations climate talks on Monday entered their final week amid rows over the Kyoto Protocol and funding for poorer countries, despite fresh warnings of the peril from greenhouse gases. After six
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Evidence for man-made climate change getting stronger: U.N.
Evidence that global warming is man-made is getting stronger, the head of a U.N. panel of climate scientists said, in a further blow to skeptics who argue rising temperatures can be explained by natural
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Polar Ice-sheet melting jumps three-fold: NASA
NEW DELHI: The combined rate of melting for the ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica has increased during the last 20 years says a landmark study published Thursday in the journal Science. The
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Arctic sea ice bigger than US melts
DOHA(QATAR): An area of Arctic sea ice bigger than the United States melted this year, according the UN weather agency, which said the dramatic decline illustrates that climate change is happening "before
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Seas rising faster than projected, low areas threatened: Report
Sea levels are rising 60% faster than UN projections, threatening low-lying areas from Miami to the Maldives, a study said on Wednesday. The report, issued during UN talks in Qatar on combating climate
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10% of country’s glaciers could vanish
Depletion in, what is, the nation’s gushing resource today, would be the most likely scenario it could expect in not so distant future. This was based on the findings of Brigham Young University’s professor,
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Every year, Greenland is losing 200m tonnes of ice
Sat Photos Reveal Alarming Trend Washington: Greenland is losing an average of 200 million tonnes of ice every year since 2003, which could have a big impact on sea levels, scientists claim. The latest