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 serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Smoke belching from Asia's rapidly growing economies is largely responsible for a halt in global warming in the decade after 1998 because of sulfur's cooling effect, even though greenhouse gas emissions soared, a U.S. study said. The paper raised the prospect of more rapid, pent-up climate change when emerging economies …
A U.N. plan to upgrade "space weather" forecasts can help the world cope with solar storms that might wreak up to $2 trillion in damage if the sun repeated a giant flare of 1859, experts said. The sun is entering a more active phase due to peak in 2013 on …
Some show deficient rainfall in northwest region While a major worry of the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) may be over with the timely arrival of monsoon at India
Shift in rainfall patterns across Southern Hemisphere The Antarctic ozone hole is about one-third to blame for Australia's recent series of droughts, say scientists. Writing in the journal Science, they conclude that the hole has shifted wind and rainfall patterns right across the Southern Hemisphere, even the tropics. Their climate …
Geneva: Record loss of the ozone, the atmosphere layer that shields life from the sun's harmful rays, has been observed over the Arctic in recent months, the World Meteorological Organization said.
The Chandigarh centre of the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) celebrated World Meteorological Day today on the theme Climate for You. Every year March 23 is celebrated by 189 member countries of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) on themes of national and international concern. At a seminar organised on the theme, …
The weather pattern known as La Nina, blamed for floods in Australia and drought in parts of Latin America, is expected to persist through the first quarter of 2011, the World Meteorological Organization said on Tuesday. La Nina, which cools the Pacific Ocean, could possibly even continue into April or …
Last year tied for the hottest year on record, confirming a long-term warming trend which will continue unless greenhouse gas emissions are cut, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday. The first 10 years of the millennium proved to be the hottest decade since records began in the 19th …
GENEVA: The warmest year on record is a three-way tie- 2010, 2005 and 1998. So says the U.N. weather agency, providing further evidence on Thursday that the planet is slowly but surely heating up. Average temperatures globally last year were 0.53 Celsius higher than the 1961-90 mean that is used …
Last year tied with 2005 as the warmest on record, according to U.S. agencies, but is likely to be overtaken soon by the next year with a strong El Nino weather event, experts said on Thursday. A gradual build-up of greenhouse gases from human activities is heating the planet but …
BETWA SHARMA CANCUN As delegates strug gle to arrive at a consensus on key climate change issues at the annual climate change conference in Cancun, the World Meteorological Organisation has released a report which says 2010 is the hottest year ever recorded. "The year 2010 is almost certain to rank …
Meena Menon January-October 2010 temperatures are near record levels Surface air temperatures over land were above normal across most parts of the world CANCUN: The year 2010 is almost certain to rank in the top three warmest years since the beginning of instrumental climate records in 1850, according to data …
The world will seek to break a U.S.-China standoff and agree modest steps to rein in global warming at U.N. talks in Mexico next week amid worries that the first climate treaty since 1992 may still be years away. Most nations have few hopes for the meeting of environment ministers …
Concentrations of the main greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached their highest level since pre-industrial times, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday. Concentrations of the gases continued to build up in 2009 -- the latest year of observations -- despite the economic slowdown, the U.N. weather agency …
The ozone layer that shields life from the sun's harmful rays is projected to recover from harmful chemicals by mid-century, but it will take longer over the polar regions, a United Nations study said on Thursday. Ozone depletion -- blamed for higher ultraviolet radiation that causes skin cancers and cataracts …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi June 21, 2010, 0:37 IST Paucity of monsoon rainfall alone is not a sufficient determinant of drought, maintains the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Several other factors need to be taken into account to declare an agricultural drought. This opinion emerges from a meeting of 19 …
Pune The System of Air Pollution Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) developed by Pune scientists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meterology (IITM) to give air quality at a given time and predict what it will be 24 hours later has come in for praise from the UN. SAFAR will also …
