Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled “CSE report finds dangerous increase in ozone pollution across urban India” appearing in Down to Earth dated 06.08.2024. The Principal Bench of the NGT heard the matter on March 21, 2025. In the original application, registered suo …
Why is it so warm this winter? It could have something to do with El Niño. Scientists have announced that the strongest El Niño event since 1997-98 is currently unfolding in the eastern equatorial Pacific and could be bringing rainy conditions to California and drought to tropical areas. Due to …
Officers of Agriculture ministries of six countries have underlined the need to study the impact of El Nino while preparing agricultural projects. “These delegates from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Fiji, Indonesia, Malaysia and Myanmar are attending a programme on agricultural project management sponsored by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India,” …
Keep an eye on children's water intake, carry a water bottle wherever you go and avoid travel in the hottest part of the day – that's the advice of QUT health statistician Associate Professor Adrian Barnett as we move into an El Niño weather pattern predicted to be the strongest …
At mid-December, skies in Lima continue to be draped with gloomy clouds and heavy humidity. When can locals expect a turn-around into summer? Summer officially begins on Dec. 21 and the National Meteorology and Hydrology Service of Peru (Senamhi) told El Comercio that they expect the cloudy skies and light …
This year’s El Niño event is shaping up to be one of the strongest in recorded history, and its effects are making themselves apparent across the globe in the form of droughts, floods and changes in local weather patterns. A less talked-about consequence of warm ocean temperatures, however, is their …
The "super-charged" El Nino weather system could leave 4.7 million people across the Pacific with widespread hunger, thirst and disease if the global community doesn't urgently act as drought and erratic frosts grip the region. El Nino weather phenomena are driven by warm sea surface water temperatures in the eastern …
A dock stands dry on drought-stricken Donner Lake near Truckee, California, December 4, 2015. An El Nino is forecasted for California, and regular precipitation has been welcomed after years of drought. Picture taken December 4. Photo: Max Whittaker A U.S. government weather forecaster on Thursday said the El Nino weather …
Japan's weather bureau said on Thursday that the El Nino weather phenomenon is at its peak now and there is a strong possibility it would stretch into spring but weather would return to normal by summer. The El Nino, or a warming of sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific, typically leads …
The impact of different boundary layer source regions in Asia on the chemical composition of the Asian monsoon anticyclone, considering its intraseasonal variability in 2012, is analysed by simulations of the Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere (CLaMS) using artificial emission tracers. The horizontal distribution of simulated CO, O3, and …
In Buffalo, it hasn't snowed yet this year. A Duluth, Minnesota, newspaper reported that the temperature was 40 degrees above zero, not below. And in Miami, beachgoers are staying indoors during what's already the third-wettest December in local history. What's going on with the weather? It's the phenomenon called El …
Another series of high temperatures has hit the country with low-lying areas expected to record extreme temperatures between 33 and 42 degrees celcius. In a statement last week, the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) said high temperatures were a cause for concern in the country. MSD said the extreme hot and …
The current El Nino is near its peak intensity, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said on Tuesday, and the weather event is showing some signs of easing. Sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean remain near record levels, the bureau said, indicating that the 2015 El Nino will be the …
The latest El Niño weather phenomenon is now the biggest and most powerful it has ever been since records began. The cycle of warm and cold temperatures - which is caused by warm water from Australia spilling out across the Pacific Ocean - has already caused havoc across the world …
Lesotho is among seven southern African countries set to benefit from £12 million the European Union (EU) will be disbursing to mitigate the effects of the El Niño weather phenomenon, APA learnt Sunday. The EU has announced it would contribute £12 million to finance emergency actions in countries affected by …
As the tiny South Pacific nation of Kiribati battles to save its islands from climate change-induced rising sea levels and drought, in an ironic twist the strongest El Nino in nearly 20 years is providing it with an economic bonanza in tuna. The warming of the Pacific Ocean due to …
A key monthly indicator for El Niño has reached a level not seen since 1997, according to the U.S. weather agency, when the weather pattern caused heavy rains and flooding in parts of South America and severe drought hit crops in Indonesia. El Niño, the "little boy," is driven by …
Global temperatures are continuing to climb to fresh records, adding to the urgency of curbing greenhouse gas emissions that are the primary cause, the World Meteorological Organisation says. Preliminary agency figures show that for the first 10 months of 2015, average sea and land surface temperatures were 0.73 degrees above …
One of the strongest El Ninos and the onslaught of global warming have put Hong Kong on course for its hottest year on record. The summer has already gone down in the books as the hottest since the Observatory began records in 1884, with the mercury on August 8 clocking …
A climate condition that has reinforced the impact of an El Nino weather event in recent months has broken down over the past fortnight, but a strong El Nino persists, Australia's weather bureau said on Tuesday. A positive Indian Ocean Dipole - a difference in sea surface temperatures between two …
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said global average surface temperatures in 2015 were likely to reach what it called the "symbolic and significant milestone" of 1° Celsius above the pre-industrial era. "This is due to a combination of a strong El Niño and human-induced global warming," the WMO said in …
