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 …
Fish antics Two US-based Johns Hopkins University researchers have found answers to how the brain guides the complex movement of limbs in a tropical fish. Their research may contribute to important medical advances in humans, including better prosthetic limbs and improved rehabilitative techniques for people suffering from strokes, cerebral palsy …
there is some relief in sight for fisherfolk from India and Pakistan who frequently get nabbed by the border security when they wander into the territorial waters of the other country. India and Pakistan have initiated a joint survey of the disputed maritime zone, Sir Creek, in the Rann of …
In the first week of November, New Zealand's air force spotted scores of huge icebergs floating within about 300 km of the country's coastline. By the third week of November "they were drifting along the coast of the country's South Island', said Mike Williams, an oceanographer at the National Institute …
new research suggests that current estimates of phytoplankton growth in oceans and total carbon uptake, calculated through satellite imagery, might be overestimated. A new study, published online in Nature's website on August 31, 2006, has found large segments of the Pacific Ocean lack sufficient iron to trigger phytoplankton growth and …
Projected anthropogenic warming and increases in CO2 concentration present a twofold threat, both from climate changes and from CO2 directly through increasing the acidity of the oceans. Future climate change may be reduced through mitigation (reductions in greenhouse gas emissions) or through geoengineering. Most geoengineering approaches, however, do not address …
oceans have cooled substantially during some of the warmest years in recent times, claims a study. During the years 2003 and 2005, which saw the highest global average surface temperatures in more than a century, the top 750 metres of the oceans lost around one-fifth of the heat accumulated over …
Monthly and 3-hourly precipitation data from twentieth-century climate simulations by the newest generation of 18 coupled climate system models are analyzed and compared with available observations. The characteristics examined include the mean spatial patterns, intraseasonal-to-interannual and ENSO-related variability, convective versus stratiform precipitation ratio, precipitation frequency and intensity for different precipitation …
Fossil fuel burning releases about 25 Pg of CO2 per year into the atmosphere, which leads to global warming (Prentice et al., 2001). However, it also emits 55 Tg S as SO2 per year (Stern, 2005), about half of which is converted to sub-micrometer size sulfate particles, the remainder being …
• Greenpeace's newest ship, Esperanza is out at sea. It will sail from the Azores to Antarctica, informing people on the way about the crisis faced by oceans. The expedition's primary focus is creating a global network of ocean parks, marine reserves. • The US's climate scientists have given An …
india has set up a new Earth Commission and renamed its Union ministry of ocean development the Union ministry of earth sciences. The move is important since it is seen as the the first step of the Indian government to integrate all researches on land, ocean and atmoaspheric systems. "The …
This special report does not seek to paint a comprehensive picture of the state of the oceans. It does not set out to recapitulate the many years of debate on ocean overfishing. WBGU concentrates instead on those key linkages between climate change and the oceans that are the topic of …
increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are turning the oceans acidic, warns the Royal Society, Britain's leading scientific organisation. The growing acidity is very likely to harm coral reefs and other marine life by the end of the century, the society said in a report prepared by a panel of …
chernobyl and cancer: The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident has led to higher incidence of thyroid cancer in the Republic of Belarus, according to a report published by Martin Mahoney of Roswell Cancer Institute, Buffalo, USA in a recent issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology . Between 1970 and …
The story of tiny Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean is the perfect parable for extinction. This 64 square mile island had fertile soil and a mild climate. Humans settled here in 400 ad and according to archaeologists, their numbers reached as high as 20,000. But when Dutch travellers reached …
indian metallurgists have devised an ecofriendly process to extract valuable metals from polymetallic nodules (mineral lumps) found on deep ocean floors. Scientists from the department of metallurgy at Bangalore's Indian Institute of Science (iisc) used the marine bacterium Bacillus M1 and commonly used starch to biologically leach the nodules to …
the world's marine policymakers have failed to agree on the details of setting up a process to assess the state of the oceans. At the Global Marine Assessment (gma) International Workshop held from June 7-11, 2004, they deliberated on the scope, framework and funding of the assessment process to pave …
