Earth's 'missing' heat impacting climate change
Current observational tools like satellite sensors and ocean floats are inadequate to track roughly half of the heat believed to have built up on the earth in recent years, a new research says.
Current observational tools like satellite sensors and ocean floats are inadequate to track roughly half of the heat believed to have built up on the earth in recent years, a new research says.
A global perspective is developed on a number of high impact climate extremes in 2010 through diagnostic studies of the anomalies, diabatic heating, and global energy and water cycles that demonstrate
In a changing climate, increasing temperatures are anticipated to have profound health impacts. These impacts could be mitigated if individuals and communities adapt to changing exposures; however, little
Poor air quality, climate change, unhealthy lifestyles and the disconnection between people and the environment are increasingly affecting human health in the region, finds the latest Global Environment
Weather- and climate-related disasters have caused $2.4 trillion in economic losses and nearly 2 million deaths globally since 1971 according to a new report. While the losses are staggering, the report
Gulbarga has justified its reputation as
Climate change is often associated with an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events, such as heat waves or intense precipitation.
Madhya Pradesh is likely to see 1-1.2 degree Celsius rise in temperature by 2045, bringing more droughts that will pose “enormous” pressure on agriculture, water resources, infrastructure and energy sectors,
Globally, sea levels have risen faster than at any time during the previous two millennia – and the effects are felt in South Asia. Changing patterns of rainfall or melting snow and ice are altering freshwater
BARGARH: It is not just humans but mammals too are affected by the soaring temperature
BHUBANESHWAR: Despite fall in mercury level below 40 degree Celsius in most parts of coastal Orissa on Tuesday, heat wave continued unabated in western and interior parts as suspected sunstroke death rose to 126, official sources said.
The sun somehow feels closer here, more intense, more personal. As Philip Lolua waits under a tree for a scoop of food, heat waves dance up from the desert floor, blurring the dead animal carcasses sprawled in front of him.
Climate change increased the odds for the kind of extreme weather that prevailed in 2011, a year that saw severe drought in Texas, unusual heat in England and was one of the 15 warmest years on record,
<p>Climate extremes have profound implications for urban infrastructure and human society, but studies of observed changes in climate extremes over the global urban areas are few, even though more than
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has pared its forecast for India
President Obama is expected to announce on Monday an Environmental Protection Agency regulation to cut carbon pollution from the nation’s fleet of 600 coal-fired power plants, in a speech that government
Long cuts, frequent breakdowns and technical snags expose PSPCL’s ill-preparedness for summer season Patiala: With the demand for power shooting up drastically, the state is reeling under severe power
As the city grappled on Friday with a heatwave and a power demand that broke all records, residents of a village in Alipur damaged two low-floor DTC buses and some private vehicles in protest against scarcity
Searing heatwave conditions continue to make life miserable in Sundargarh district with the mercury hovering between 42 and 46 degree Celsius. Unofficially, as many as 19 have fallen to the heat with the
Industrialized nations’ greenhouse gas emissions fell by 1.3 percent in 2012, led by a US decline to the lowest in almost two decades with a shift to natural gas from dirtier coal, official statistics