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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Living made difficult
Unfulfilled promises; villagers hanging loose On July 24 this year, a school block near the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project in Sunagarh, Uttarkashi district, gave away as the rocks under it had become unstable. The subsequent landslide kept the highway blocked for the next three days.
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Keeping CO2 emissions at 2005 level not enough
New York, Painting a grim picture, a new study shows that even if greenhouse gas emissions are fixed at 2005 levels, irreversible warming will lead to biodiversity loss and substantial glacial melt. The earth will warm about 2.4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels even under extremely conservative greenhouse-gas emission scenarios and under the assumption that efforts to clean up particulate pollution continue to be successful, an new analysis by a pair of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanog raphy show.
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Changing streamflow patterns in the rivers of northwestern Himalaya: Implications of global warming in the 20th century
The results of trend analyses of the discharge data of four rivers in northwestern Himalaya, namely Beas, Chenab, Ravi and Satluj, are presented here and the impact of climate change in the last century is discussed. In the case of Satluj river, studies indicate an episodic variation in discharge in all three seasons on a longer timescale of about 82 years (1922
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Glacier melts, 5000-yr secret out
Objects Of Neolithic Era Found High In The Alps In Warming Fallout Bern: Some 5,000 years ago a prehistoric person trod high up in what is now the Swiss Alps, wearing goat leather pants, leather shoes and armed with a bow and arrows. The unremarkable journey through the Schnidejoch pass, a lofty trail 2,756 metres above sea level, has been a boon to scientists but it would never have emerged if climate change were not melting the nearby glacier.
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Arctic Ice Hints at Warming, Specialists Say
By ANDREW C. REVKIN Leading ice specialists in Europe and the United States for the first time have agreed that a ring of navigable waters has opened all around the fringes of the cap of sea ice drifting on the warming Arctic Ocean. By many expert accounts, this is the first time the Northwest Passage over North America and the Northern Sea Route over Europe and Asia have been open simultaneously in at least half a century, if not longer.
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Greenland melt could see huge sea-level rises
How fast will our coastlines be swallowed up by rising sea levels?
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Who moved my science?
Glaring gaps in Gangotri glacial melt study Science seems to have been the casualty in the study on glacial retreat in Gangotri, source of the Ganga. The Uttarakhand government had commissioned a study to an expert committee in 2006. The committee came out with a report in December 2007, which scientists said was dated and
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Doubly threatened: Ice caps and sea levels
As the world heats up, the sea levels are rising. Many experts warn that dramatic sea-level rise is global warming's biggest danger. Two main factors are behind this: thermal expansion of the ocean and melting Ice. First, as the ocean gets wanner from global warming, its volume expands. This is basic science: water expands as it heats up. Thermal expansion has raised the oceans about 10 to 20 centimeters (4 to 8 inches), according to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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Brief
environment Jaipur halts limestone mining The Rajasthan government has denotified the region in and around Jaisalmer for limestone mining. Though the reason behind denotification is not clear, the move comes days after the government rejected applications by leading cement companies for mining lease in the region. Companies such as Mangalam Cement, Sanghi Industries, Birla Cement
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Climate Change in Action in Greenland
Rivers of melting ice form on the Sermeq Kujalleq Glacier in Ilulissat, Greenland, pictured in October 2007