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 …
Chennai is practically the first Indian city to have gone dry with the Central Water Commission reporting a rainfall deficit of 41 per cent in Tamil Nadu till June 13 this year. Most of Chennai's population today is dependent on water tankers and curtailed municipal supply for daily requirement of …
With the water bodies shrinking, groundwater level depleting and deficit monsoons year after year, India is staring at an unprecedented water emergency. One that calls for immediate action. But where is all the water going? Who is to be blamed? Is this a man-made situation or policy paralysis?
Flood fury continues in Southwest India. According to the reports, 42 are dead in Kerala and 24 in Karnataka. Also, more than two lakh people have been evacuated to safer places from three districts of Kolhapur, Sangli, and Satara. Watch this video to know more.
Record rainfall and floods in some parts of the country have killed hundreds of people. Yet, some areas have seen less than average rain. Some statistics bring to light how these weather patterns are anything but normal. Is this going to be the new normal? Uneven rainfall patterns across the …
The death toll in the Kerala floods increased to 88 on Tuesday with an "extremely heavy rain" warning issued for three districts, even as the weather in deluge-hit Karnataka and Gujarat improved, allowing authorities to speed up rescue and relief operations.
Over the last month, at least 200 people across 5 states have lost their lives due to excessive rainfall causing floods. Just in the course of 2019, we've seen a deadly heatwave in North and Central India, devastating floods in Bihar and Assam, torrential rains in Mumbai and the worst …
The odd-even scheme is returning to Delhi for the third time from November 4 to 15, which means vehicles with odd and even number plates will be allowed to operate on alternate days. Women drivers and two wheelers are exempted from the scheme. In 2017, this scheme was put on …
On his Independence Day address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a movement to make India free of single-use plastic, beginning on Gandhi Jayanti, which falls on October 2. However, plastic is everywhere and shopkeepers and customers continue to depend on single-use plastic. Is the target of a full ban …
An important announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday on the need to ban single-use plastic was made at a global convention to combat climate change and desertification. The stark reality of sudden, unpredictable climactic events is upon the world, and it's time to work to save the planet. …
प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने सिंगल यूज प्लास्टिक के इस्तेमाल करने को कम करने के की लोगों से अपील की है. उन्होंने रेलवे, एयरपोर्ट और ऑफिस दफ्तरों से इसका कम से कम या नहीं करने की अपील की है. इस संबंध में जागरुकता फैलाने के लिए पीएम मोदी ने बनारस में …
No ban on single use plastic, only awareness programs. No definitive timelines either. Are we any closer to finding alternatives for the single use plastic? Are we really prepared for plastic ban?
#DelhiChokes after pollution levels across Delhi-NCR shot up & average 24 hr AQI crossed 300 today. EPCA claims stubble burning contributes 11%, pollution body says states' local sources are larger contributors. Is this blame game, also choking Delhi?
Is stubble burning the main reason for the worsening condition of NCR Air quality? With the air quality in Delhi-NCR crossing the 'very poor' mark, concerns over the sources of pollution have started to emerge. Apart from the regular vehicular and industrial emissions, a significant amount of pollution is attributed …
As the world wakes up to to the crisis of Ocean Plastic, India plans on a complete ban on single use plastic by 2022. Times Now looks at how India is planning to fight the plastic epidemic.
