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 …
London: Britain has sweltered through the hottest day of the year so far, with temperatures soaring to 35 degrees in parts of the country. The Met Office declared a Level 3 heatwave alert, and sweaty, panicked crowds flocked to parks across London to strip off and soak up the warmth. …
The El Nino weather pattern is likely to dissipate by early August, giving way to La Nina, two top officials of the Indian weather office said on Tuesday, swelling already bountiful monsoon rains that are crucial for India's farm sector. India is almost halfway through its four-month monsoon season and …
Diplomats meeting in Vienna this week hope to take a major step toward a deal under the Montreal Protocol to decrease the use of a potent greenhouse gas, in what could be the most significant measure to combat global warming since last year's Paris climate agreement. Officials from nearly 200 …
Tropical cyclones play an important role in modifying the tropopause structure and dynamics as well as stratosphere–troposphere exchange (STE) processes in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) region. In the present study, the impact of cyclones that occurred over the north Indian Ocean during 2007–2013 on the STE processes …
The first two weeks of July have witnessed bountiful monsoon rains in most parts of the country, thus bringing relief to farming communities. Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday said during July 7–13, overall rainfall across the country was 11% above the benchmark —Long Period Average (LPA), while the total …
Ahmedabad: The south-western monsoon has now spread across entire Gujarat, said the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday. This year, the arrival of monsoon was delayed by over a month. "The South-West monsoon has further advanced into remaining parts of Gujarat. Thus it has covered the entire state," reads a …
The southwest monsoon on Wednesday covered the entire country after its arrival at Kerala coast on June 8, with most parts of the country receiving adequate rainfall, especially in the last two weeks. “The monsoon has advanced into remaining parts of north Arabian sea, Kutch and west Rajasthan. Thus, it …
Tropopause temperatures (TPTs) control the amount of stratospheric water vapour, which influences chemistry, radiation and circulation in the stratosphere, and is also an important driver of surface climate. Decadal variability and long-term trends in tropical TPTs as well as stratospheric water vapour are largely unknown. Here, we present for the …
We present the measurements of cloud-base height variations over Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Science, Nainital (79.45E, 29.37N, 1958 m amsl) obtained from Vaisala Ceilometer, during the nearly year-long Ganges Valley Aerosol Experiment (GVAX). The cloud-base measurements are analysed in conjunction with collocated measurements of rainfall, to study the possible …
Long-term measurements (from August 2009 to December 2014) of aerosol black carbon mass concentration (MBC) and spectral aerosol optical depth (AOD) were carried out from a high-altitude location, Hanle in western trans-Himalaya as part of the Regional Aerosol Warming Experiment. Original Source
BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Governments have been too slow to respond to droughts and floods linked to the El Niño weather pattern, and must do better next time if global development goals are to be met, said Mary Robinson, U.N. special envoy for El Niño and climate. Last year, …
New research based on ocean models and near real-time data from autonomous gliders indicates that the "The Blob" and El Niño together strongly depressed productivity off the West Coast, with The Blob driving most of the impact. The research published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters by scientists from NOAA …
Ice sheets, deserts, rivers, islands, coasts and oceans -- the features of Earth's surface are wildly different, spread across a vast geography. The same is true for Earth's thin film of atmosphere and the mix of gases it holds, although the details are invisible to human eyes. Pollutants emitted to …
In a major new paper in the influential journal Science, a team of researchers report strikingly good news about a 30-year old environmental problem. The Antarctic ozone "hole" - which, when it was first identified in the mid-1980s, focused public attention like few other pieces of environmental news - has …
Sydney has just shivered through its coolest June day in 21 years although the worst of the cold spell is probably over for now. Sydney's maximum temperature for Monday reached just 11.7 degrees making it the coolest day for any month in 20 years, said Brett Dutschke, senior meteorologist with …
Cases of heatstroke are likely to jump as temperatures surge this summer amid Japan’s first La Nina phenomenon in six years, according to the Meteorological Agency. La Nina, a natural cooling of parts of the Pacific that alters global weather and generally brings hot days to Japan during the summer …
High precipitation quantiles tend to rise with air temperature, following the so-called Clausius–Clapeyron scaling. This CC-scaling relation breaks down, or even reverts, for very high temperatures. In our study, we verify this reversal using a 60-year period of summer data in Germany. One of the suggested meteorological explanations is limited …
More than 25% excess rainfall over normal on Wednesday has pulled down the overall deficiency in the quantum of monsoon rainfall to only 18% from 25% reported a week ago. With monsoon rains expected to advance further into parts of northern and western regions in the next couple of days, …
MUMBAI: The normal monsoon onset date for the city may be June 10 in the India Meteorological Department (IMD) calendar, but in the last 65 years there have been only two years, 1999 and 2004, when the rains have arrived on the appointed date. This year the arrival of the …
Indian monsoon rains have covered nearly half of the country, the weather department said on Monday, accelerating planting of summer crops like paddy rice, soybeans, cotton and pulses. The June to September monsoon is crucial for farm output and economic growth in India, where just over half of arable land …
