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 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer has since been recognized as an extraordinary environmental success in global cooperation to protect the ozone layer. The Montreal Protocol has completed more than 20 years of its progress. India being a Party to the Montreal Protocol and all its …
Mumbai: The BMC is planning another cloud seeding experiment at the catchment area near Vihar lake to induce rains and address water scarcity in the city. "The lake water levels have not been rising as per expectations. In the last few days, the water content of all six lakes providing …
With the second round of showers starting in almost all the districts of south Gujarat, the hope of crop revival has been rekindled. Farmer community across Valsad, Navsari, Surat, Bharuch and Narmada districts of the region are happy that their crops of paddy and sugarcane will get a new lease …
Ahmedabad: Mercury in the city on Tuesday rose to 36 degrees Celsius, the highest temperature in August in the last eight years, on a day when the Met department had predicted light showers. The last it hit such a high was on August 2 in 2002, which was also during …
A Raman J E GEISTER MAINTAINED DETAILED RECORDS ON WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR FIVE YEARS A scientific documentation by Walford in 1879 indicates rain, frost, drought, and meteorological phenomena as the key factors for fam ines arising consequent to changed patterns in climate. Given that even in the UK, a powerful …
MUMBAI: A few days after cloud seeding experiments at Tansa and Modak Sagar brought some rainfall in the catchment areas, the BMC conducted a similar exercise at the same spots on Thursday. The two experiments carried out at Modak Sagar, however, did not bear fruit and resulted in only 5 …
Mexico is suffering from its driest year in 68 years, killing crops and cattle in the countryside and forcing the government to slow the flow of water to the crowded capital. Below-average rainfall since last year has left about 80 of Mexico's 175 largest reservoirs less than half full, said …
Kaustubh Kulkarni / Pune August 19, 2009, 1:08 IST When the World Metereological Organisation (WTO) warned our weather experts in June that a poor monsoon was coming , and also told them why, the latter wouldn
Madden-Julian Oscillation May Counter El Nino New Delhi: The flagging monsoon may just get a shot of adrenaline that could counter the ill effects of this year
When nations made plans to save the ozone layer, they didn't factor in global warming. Quirin Schiermeier reports on how two environmental problems complicate each other.
Met Department Says Rains Might Return Tomorrow Ahmedabad: Monsoon has taken a break and there has been not a single spell of shower since July 27. However, there seems to be some good news in store as the monsoon is expected to revive by August 13. However, the rains this …
NEW DELHI: With the monsoon showing no sign of any major recovery, the India Meteorological Department late on Monday decided to reduce its estimate of rainfall during the season to 87 per cent for the country as a whole and for the season in its entirety. This marks a reduction …
Kaustubh Kulkarni / Pune/mumbai/new Delhi August 11, 2009, 0:25 IST After being in denial mode, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) today pared its forecast for a second time in three months and said state governments were free to announce
Aug. 9: Hyderabad is the worst affected among seven Telangana districts, failing to get any rain in the last week, according to the Indian Meteorological Department
Year to year variation of Indian monsoon rainfall is described qualitatively in some ancient Sanskrit texts. Interestingly, these are cyclic with periods of 3, 5, 7, 18 and 60 years. Time series analysis of actual seasonal rainfall data shows that at very near the above periods the spectrum has significant …
Weather predictions are expected to be more accurate in future in Madhya Pradesh as the state Met Department has decided to install imported radar in the city, official sources said. Union Ministry of Earth Sciences has accorded approval for installing a Doppler Weather Radar (DWR) atop of a proposed ten-storeyed …
P. Sunderarajan NEW DELHI: The southwest monsoon crossed its midway point five days ago but the situation continues to be grim across the country, with part of the gains made during the first half of July even getting eroded during the past two weeks following the northward movement of the …
