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 …
The anthropogenic input of fossil fuel carbon into the atmosphere results in increased carbon dioxide (CO2) into the oceans, a process that lowers seawater pH, decreases alkalinity and can inhibit the production of shell material. Corrosive water has recently been documented in the northeast Pacific, along with a rapid decline …
The purpose of this report, Oceans at Rio+20: How Well Are We Doing in Meeting Global Commitments on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands from the 1992 Earth Summit and the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development? is to contribute to discussions and preparations related to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development …
Several UN entities have issued a Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability, which highlights the role of oceans in sustainable development and offers recommendations ahead of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20). This Blueprint provides an overview of the threats faced by the oceans, including unsustainable use, …
Environment Ministers’ Meeting 30 September, 2011 - One of the outcomes of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation environment ministers’ meeting, which ended yesterday, was the endorsement of the terms of reference for four initiatives under the Thimphu declaration. The four initiatives include the SAARC inter-governmental marine initiative, to …
MUMBAIKARS won’t see any more sea links, at least for now. After the successful run of the five-kilometre road over the sea, linking Bandra to Worli in South Mumbai, the Maharashtra government was planning its extension to Haji Ali via another sea link. But now that plan has been shelved. …
There are many challenges involved in understanding climate variations in the tropics, and how the Pacific climate might change with global warming. One study offers a surprising perspective on the mechanisms involved.
he stable isotope ratios of atmospheric CO2 (18O/16O and 13C/12C) have been monitored since 1977 to improve our understanding of the global carbon cycle, because biosphere–atmosphere exchange fluxes affect the different atomic masses in a measurable way. Interpreting the 18O/16O variability has proved difficult, however, because oxygen isotopes in CO2 …
The mystery of Earth's missing heat may have been solved: it could lurk deep in oceans, temporarily masking the climate-warming effects of greenhouse gas emissions, researchers reported on Sunday. Climate scientists have long wondered where this so-called missing heat was going, especially over the last decade, when greenhouse emissions kept …
Both Countries Have Announced Oil Exploration Plans In Other’s Waters New Delhi: The oceans are the new theatre of India-China competition, but one with possible security implications. Soon after India announced its decision to go ahead with oil exploration in South China Sea with Vietnam, China on Saturday said it …
The technical committee formed on a directive from the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to study the feasibility of coastal roads for Mumbai is now split down the middle over a radical suggestion by an expert member regarding land reclamation up to 100 metres off the shore, a move …
As External Affairs Minister SM Krishna headed to Hanoi, India and China appeared on a collision course over Beijing’s objection to ONGC Videsh Limited’s (OVL) plans to undertake oil exploration in two Vietnamese blocks in the South China Sea. “Our cooperation with Vietnam or any other country is always as …
Brussels: The warming of the world’s oceans can cause serious illness and may cost millions of euros (dollars) in health care. That is the alarm sounded in a paper released online Tuesday on the eve of a two-day conference in Brussels. The 200-page paper is a synthesis of the findings …
Europe's seas are changing at an unprecedented rate as ice sheets melt, temperatures rise and marine life migrates due to climate change, a report by the Climate Change and European Marine Ecosystem Research (CLAMER) project warned. Scientists examined a mass of EU-funded research on the impacts of climate change on …
BALASORE: Just 100 metres from the sea, they dread the hungry tidal waves. Gokul Jena with his six-member family in Chandrabali village in Bhogarai block panics every minute. Around 200 people belonging to 35 families in the village are living in the fear of losing their home and hearth as …
A group of scientists led by researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) has quantified dust and iron fluxes deposited in the Antarctic Ocean during the past 4 million years. The research study published in Nature evidences the close relation …
Preserving just 4 percent of the ocean could protect crucial habitat for the vast majority of marine mammal species, from sea otters to blue whales, according to researchers at Stanford University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Their findings were published in the Aug. 16 edition of the Proceedings …
Dust has the potential to modify global climate by influencing the radiative balance of the atmosphere and by supplying iron and other essential limiting micronutrients to the ocean. Indeed, dust supply to the Southern Ocean increases during ice ages, and ‘iron fertilization’ of the subantarctic zone may have contributed up …
The Indian Ocean bed promises to be the next frontier for earth system scientists in the country. India, who has been granted mining rights for 75,000 sq km of the ocean bed in the central Indian Ocean by the International Seabed Authority, plans to expedite its activities in the region. …
Dust is all that's needed to plunge the world into an ice age. When blown into the sea, the iron it contains can fertilise plankton growth on a scale large enough to cause global temperatures to drop. The finding adds support to the idea of staving off climate change by …
India Shows Urgency After World Body Allows China To Explore Ocean For Sulphides New Delhi: Having been delivered a wake-up blow from China, the government is scrambling to put together a policy on deep-sea mining for minerals in south and central Indian Ocean. Cabinet secretary A K Seth told a …
