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
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Climate change may bring big ecosystem shifts
By 2100, global climate change will modify plant communities covering almost half of Earth's land surface and will drive the conversion of nearly 40 percent of land-based ecosystems from one major ecological
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Loss of glacial mass in Everest area alarming: Icimod report
There was marked acceleration in the loss of glacial mass in the Everest area between 2002 and 2005 compared to the earlier years, a new finding shared by scientists on Sunday revealed. The findings
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31 million Bangladeshis may be displaced due to climate change
Bangladeshis in millions would be displaced due to global warming causing sea level rise by thermal expansion of the ocean waters and the melting of land- based ice. "Approximately 31 million people are
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Omar for committed strategy to address climate change issues
JAMMU: Underlining the far reaching consequences of climatic change, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Thursday asked for a unified and committed strategy to address this concern and help restrict human
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UK wants global climate pact "operational" by 2020
The government wants a new globally binding climate deal to be "operational" by 2020 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep world temperature rises to a limit of 2 degrees Celsius, the UK's
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Glaciers shrinking fast
National Glaciers Within the last three decades, glaciers of Bhutan shrank by 189sqkm, less than half the size of one of the country’s smallest dzongkhags, Pemagatshel. It is a fall by 7.3 percent,
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Arctic sea 'could be ice free by 2015
Arctic Sea could be ice free by the summer of 2015, a leading ocean expert in Britain has claimed. According to Prof Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University, the ice that forms over the Arctic sea is shrinking so rapidly that it may vanish altogether in four years' time, destroying the natural habitat of animals like polar bears.
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Melting Tibetan glaciers may hit Brahmaputra, says study
Talks of Himalayan glaciers melting fast which will adversely affect major rivers like Brahmaptura has come to be true, but this time this has been confirmed in China which is building a mega dam to control flow of the river. Qin Dahe, the former head of the China Meteorological Administration, said that glaciers in the Tibetan Plateau is melting very fast which will affect the climate and major rivers. The Tibetan Plateau contains the world’s third-largest store of ice. Temperatures are rising four times faster than elsewhere in China, and the Tibetan glaciers are retreating at a higher speed than in any other part of the world
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Warming Revives Dream of Sea Route in Russian Arctic
Rounding the northernmost tip of Russia in his oceangoing tugboat this summer, Capt. Vladimir V. Bozanov saw plenty of walruses, some pods of beluga whales and in the distance a few icebergs. With an
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Brit team to drill into lost Antarctic world
An ambitious mission to search for life that has been buried beneath 3km of ice in an Antarctic lake for hundreds of thousands of years begins in earnest this week. A team of British scientists and