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 …
The cyclonic storm Laila reached Andhra Pradesh coastline on Thursday and showed definite signs of weakening but weather scientists said its behaviour over the next two days would be extremely crucial, especially from the point of view of its impact on the monsoon. The cyclone is most likely to move …
India Keeping Pace With Global Warming Trends New Delhi: Following the release of global temperature data which revealed April of 2010 was the hottest April ever and that this year so far has been warmest on record, Nasa has said global temperatures have been steadily rising since the late 1970s …
RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI Climate experts at the first South Asian Climate Outlook Forum (SACOF) meet comprising South Asian countries who met in Pune last week believe the monsoon this year could be less than normal. Countries attending the meet included Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, all of whom …
Humans continue to transform the global nitrogen cycle at a record pace, reflecting an increased combustion of fossil fuels, growing demand for nitrogen in agriculture and industry, and pervasive inefficiencies in its use. Much anthropogenic nitrogen is lost to air, water, and land to cause a cascade of environmental and …
P. Sunderarajan NEW DELHI: The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday announced that the Southwest Monsoon was likely to set in over Kerala on May 30. The forecast was subject to a model error of plus or minus four days. In a press release, the IMD also said the monsoon …
KOCHI: The monsoon is likely to hit Kerala earlier than usual, most probably by the last week of May. With the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) predicting a normal southwest monsoon this year, everybody is waiting for the weathermen to release their forecast on when it would start raining. However, there …
The south west monsoon is likely to hit the Kerala coast on June 1. According to preliminary observations made by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) here, there is nothing to indicate that the monsoon will arrive before or after the scheduled date.
The daily net ecosystem CO2 exchange, diurnal pattern of net CO2 exchange and ecosystem respiration of Cenchrus ciliaris grassland in semi-arid region were studied during July 2008
If the rain gods play truant, the much-awaited decline in food inflation is unlikely to happen N Chandra Mohan / May 8, 2010, 1:05 IST Much like the passage of the four seasons, the south-west monsoon arrives with unfailing regularity. But the amount of rainfall and its spread over time …
Goa Meteorological Department will be installing eight Automatic Rain Gauge (ARG) stations across the State to ensure there is real time mapping of the rainfall.
The Union government proposes to have a National Mission on Monsoon in the hope that a concerted effort will improve monsoon prediction. The dry bed of the Korampallam tank, used for irrigation in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu in October 2009. The year saw a severe drought, with large deficits in rainfall …
Given IMD?s past record on forecasts, the latest one could also go wrong Surinder Sud / New Delhi May 6, 2010, 0:03 IST Can you trust India Meteorological Department
R. PRASAD The missed data: Looking for long-term patterns in springtime data for the Antarctic helped the team to discover the ozone hole. This file photo shows the ozone hole split into two separate holes. Twenty-five years ago British scientists
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A permanent system, with its headquarters at the Agriculture Directorate, will be set up in the Agriculture Department to issue warnings to the farmers according to the predictions made by the Meteorological Department, Agriculture Minister Mullakkara Retnakaran has said. Speaking at a meeting convened for preparing short-term as well …
Agartala, May 5: Weather forecasting in India is all set to get more accurate with the met office setting up China-made Doppler radars across the country that can track and predict fast-evolving weather systems such as thunderstorms, cyclones and cloudbursts. The radars, which have been procured from Beijing Metstar Radar …
Clouds with aerosols conspire to block and reflect away sunlight over the Indian subcontinent, a new research claims. This results in what is called 'solar dimming' lessening the amount of sunlight that reaches Indian soil. "Dimming affects climate change by reducing surface temperature and weakening the hydrological cycle, which in …
