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 …
Odisha received 56% less rain by the end of June, according a rainfall report of India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday. The monsoon had hit the state on June 18, eight days behind schedule. The rainfall in 19 of 29 districts in Odisha is being treated as scanty, which is …
Uttarakhand Meteorological Centre has finally declared the arrival of monsoon in Uttarakhand on Tuesday. "Delayed monsoon, however, caused shortfall of around 63 per cent rainfall than normal in the month of June this year," said Uttarakhand Meteorological Centre director Anand Sharma. The Met office figures indicate that the State experienced …
Australia smashed its temperature record in the year to the end of June, beating a high set during the most recent El Nino weather event in the Pacific. Buried in the Bureau of Meteorology's monthly report on national conditions, the agency noted the 12-month mean temperature was a "solid highest-on-record" …
Canberra had a warm and wet start to winter this year, with rainy days and mild nights making it the ACT's hottest June since 2009 and the territory's eighth warmest on record. But a severe cold front has started this month off on a chilly note, with a number of …
CHINA’S agricultural yields could be hit by El Nino, a weather pattern that can bring drought in some parts while causing flooding in others, the agricultural ministry warned yesterday. El Nino of medium to strong magnitude could be experienced, which could trigger low temperatures and rainfall in south China and …
The El Nino is not the only factor that tripped monsoon rains in India during June, according to a lead scientist with a research group Japanese national forecaster Jamstec. This is the latest in a series of expert voices which has shared the view that local factors have played no …
Australia maintained an El Nino alert as indicators of the event, which can bring drought to the Asia-Pacific region and heavier-than-usual rains to South America, begin to emerge before the pattern develops in coming months. Climate models indicate the weather event is likely to develop by spring, which starts in …
India, the world’s second-biggest rice, sugar and cotton grower, recorded the lowest June rainfall since 2009 amid predictions for an El Nino that previously caused droughts and cut crop output, the state forecaster said. The country got 92.4 millimeters (3.6 inches) of rain last month, or 43 percent less than …
South-west monsoon is yet to pick up in full vigour although June is at an end Concern is building as the monsoon rains that generally arrive in the first week of June have been delayed in the Cauvery region though the situation is not serious enough to cause any anxiety. …
Why aren't the markets spooked by the poor monsoon in June? Simple, because forecasts point to rain picking up in July, water reservoir levels are higher than average and India has buffer stocks that would cover any shortages. "The present reservoir storage level looks comfortable. Simultaneously, the meteorological department too …
PUNE: The El Nino phenomenon, which weather forecasts had said would have a severe impact on the Indian monsoon, is showing signs of weakening. Sources in the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday that the occurrence of El Nino was now 60% as against an earlier prediction of 80%. …
Amid gloomy forecast about rain in different parts of the country this year, the farmers of Bihar could derive solace from the good news that the overall rainfall in the state would be 99% of the normal, and almost uniformly spread across all the 38 districts. Already, 97.1mm of average …
Govt will wait till first week of July before implementing any such plan as advised by agriculture scientists In an effort to tackle any eventuality emerging out of a possible failure of monsoons in the state as a result of the El Nino effect, the Karnataka government is readying a …
Geneva : The “El Nino” phenomenon, which sparks climate extremes around the globe, is likely to take hold in the Pacific Ocean by the end of the year and could even do so within weeks, the UN said on Thursday. There was an 80% likelihood that El Nino could start …
With the cumulative rainfall recorded in the country till June 24 being 38 per cent below the long period average, this year will be only the twelfth time in the last 113 years (1901-2013) when there has been over 30 per cent deficiency of rainfall in the country in June. …
District has received only 446.71 mm rainfall till now TAKING CHANCE? Farmers have begun cultivating their lands despite deficit rains in Dakshina Kannada this year. Dakshina Kannada district has seen 50 per cent less rainfall compared to last year. In June last year, the district had received average of 885.92 …
A Bill to establish a task force to review policies and measures to promote, and to develop best practices for, reduction of short-lived climate pollutants, and for other purposes. See also: Bipartisan team to introduce Super Pollutants Act to cut HFCs, black carbon, methane http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/bipartisan-team-introduce-super-pollutants-act-cut-hfcs-black-carbon-methane Primer on Hydrofluorocarbons http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/primer-hydrofluorocarbons-0 Primer …
The President shall establish an interagency task force on short‐lived climate pollutant mitigation, whose members will consist of the secretaries/administrators/chairmen of all relevant federal regulators and cabinet agencies (or their designated representatives), including EPA, DoD, Interior, Energy, Commerce, State, Transportation, and Agriculture. See also: Bipartisan team to introduce Super Pollutants …
Visakhapatnam: Last month was the warmest May on record, Meteorology experts said. Officials of the Cyclone Warning Centre (CWC), Visakhapatnam, stated that the nine coastal districts should have received average rainfall of 28 mm in the last week till Monday, but they only received 3 mm. These coastal districts should …
NEW DELHI: Drought-like conditions are intensifying as the monsoon hasn't moved an inch for 10 days now, leaving oilseeds, pulses and paddy fields parched and posing the threat of food inflation and weak rural demand in the first year of the Narendra Modi government. Prices of vegetables and onions are …
