Short affidavit on behalf of the Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board (RSPCB) in terms of the National Green Tribunal order dated January 22, 2025. The application was registered suo motu by the NGT on the basis of a news item titled "Toxic kilns pollution Aravallis; wildlife and locals suffer" appearing …
Meghalaya, despite its low population density and little industrialization, contributes least to global warming, but could become one of the worst sufferer of the impending climate change, Governor RS Mooshahary said. The small state with significant forest cover is not a significant contributor to climate change. Its consumption of the …
Rainfall decreased over two-thirds of India, says study Conventional thinking has it that India with global warming will receive more rainfall. But that need not necessarily be so. Annual rainfall, especially during winter and monsoon, has decreased in over 68 per cent of the country, claims a recent study by …
MONSOON WATCH Surinder Sud / New Delhi September 12, 2008, 3:16 IST Monsoon is yet to retreat even 11 days after the scheduled withdrawal date of September 1. But sowing for most kharif crops has been completed and farmers have shifted their focus to production and price trends of various …
Climate models suggest that extreme precipitation events will become more common in an anthropogenically warmed climate. However, observational limitations have hindered a direct evaluation of model-projected changes in extreme precipitation. We used satellite observations and model simulations to examine the response of tropical precipitation events to naturally driven changes in …
Surinder Sud / Mumbai September 5, 2008, 3:13 IST The delay in the withdrawal of the monsoon is expected to benefit crops in the current kharif as well as in the ensuing rabi season. However, the projected increase in the intensity of rains in the north-eastern states may heighten the …
This paper, discusses the development of a very high resolution (0.50 x 0.50 degree) daily rainfall data set for mesoscale meteorological studies over the Indian region. The data set was developed using quality controlled rainfall data from more than 6000 rain-gauge stations over India. The analysis consists of daily rainfall …
Sudheer Pal Singh / New Delhi August 25, 2008, 0:49 IST The country's energy deficit is likely to improve as hydro power stations are in a position to ramp up their generation capacity following healthy rainfall in the second fortnight of July, wiping out initial shortfall in rains. The cumulative …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi August 22, 2008, 4:49 IST Monsoon took a long break in July in the interior peninsula, Maharashtra and parts of Gujarat and Rajasthan, Yet, the overall distribution of rains till mid-August has been the best in the past five years. As a result, worries about …
Maharashtra in the grip of severest drought since 1972 maharashtra seems to be heading towards a drought-year. On July 9, the state government declared a
Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: The effect of climate change on India could be far worse than previously estimated. Latest projections indicate that after 2050, temperatures would rise by 3-4 degrees over current levels and rainfall would become both heavier and less regular, posing a grave threat to agriculture. …
Andrew C. Revkin Scientists studying variations in tropical heat and rainfall since the mid-1980s have found a strong link between warm periods and more extreme downpours. The observed rise in the heaviest rains is about twice that produced by computer simulations used to assess human-caused global warming, said the researchers. …
Global Warming-Linked Showers May Lead To Flooding Washington: US and British researchers have confirmed the link between warmer climate and an increase in powerful rainstorms, according to a study that underscores one of the challenges of global warming. The researchers even found that the increase of extreme rainfall was higher …
Food security has become incresingly important globally as well as at domestic front as the global foodgrain production is not keeping pace with increasing population. Besides the use for human consumption, there is horizontal and vertical diversification of foodgrains particularly towards animal and poultry feed, industrial uses and recently towards …
MONSOON WATCH Surinder Sud / New Delhi August 1, 2008, 22:15 IST Monsoon is back in almost all the rain-starved areas of the peninsula, Maharashtra and parts of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. As a result, there has been a dramatic change in the overall kharif crop outlook. Conditions are turning …
