The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Melting polar ice due to global warming poses an existential threat to humanity. New research on the melting of Antarctic ice sheets has suggested a dramatically faster pace of melting than is currently believed to be occurring — projections which, if they play out at the median level, could submerge …
MIAMI: An increasingly warm Arctic, where temperatures rise twice as fast as the rest of the planet and ice melts at an alarming pace is the "new normal," warned a global scientific report on Tuesday. In 2017, winter sea ice around the Earth's northern pole cover fell to the smallest …
The devastating impact of climate change in the polar regions has been confirmed by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) annual Arctic Report Card Authors from the American scientific agency concluded that 2017 was not a record-breaking year in terms of climate extremes, there was still evidence that …
Overfishing and changing sea temperatures are pushing seabirds to the brink of extinction, according to new data on the world's birds. Birds that are now globally threatened include the kittiwake and the Atlantic puffin, which breed on UK sea cliffs. Meanwhile, on land, the Snowy Owl is struggling to find …
A new study now says there is 93 per cent chance that global warming will exceed 4°C by 2100, under the business-as-usual scenario, compared to the previous estimate of 62 per cent Global warming, under the notorious “business-as-usual scenario” in which humans go on burning fossil fuels to power economic …
Shrinking glacier cover could lead to increased volcanic activity in Iceland, scientists have warned. A new study, led by the University of Leeds, found there was less volcanic activity in Iceland when glacier cover was more extensive. As the glaciers melted, volcanic eruptions increased due to subsequent changes in surface …
Wind farms are key to tackling climate change but warming will significantly cut the power of the wind across northern mid-latitudes, including the US, the UK and the Mediterranean, according to new research. However, some places, including eastern Australia, will see winds pick up. The research is the first global …
Models show that several aspects of Earth’s top-of-atmosphere energy budget and the magnitude of projected global warming are correlated, enabling us to infer that future warming has been underestimated.
Melting Arctic sea ice could render sun-soaked California vulnerable to a recurrence of the severe drought suffered in recent years as it is likely to cause high pressure systems that push away rain-bearing storms, a study released on Tuesday said. As temperatures rise, the Arctic Ocean is expected to become …
KATHMANDU: Global warming is not only posing a serious threat to glaciers, it will also result in a loss of 33 per cent of total ice volume in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region by the end of the century, leading dire consequences for people living there. "Climate is warming …
Almost 14,000 archeological sites and national monuments in the United States could be lost by the year 2100 as seas rise due to climate change, scientists said on Wednesday. The findings offer a glimpse into the vast amount of global cultural heritage that could be destroyed, the study said. One …
The 2017 edition of the European Environment Agency (EEA) report on fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases) confirms the good progress achieved in 2016 by the European Union (EU) in phasing down the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a set of fluorinated gases with a high global warming potential (GWP) that is significantly …
A new study has shown that decreasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere led to a phenomenon of increased global cooling one million years ago. A decline in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels led to a fundamental shift in the behaviour of the Earth’s climate system around one million years …
The climate-warming chemicals are hydrochlorofluorocarbons and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) used widely used in refrigerators, air-conditioners and aerosol sprays. Developing countries will receive $540 million to continue their work in phasing out ozone-depleting chemicals, according to UN Environment. The funds will be provided by developed countries for three years starting from 2018 …
NSS volunteers of Perikkalloor school conserve 40 varieties of trees endemic to the Western Ghats A group of students of Perikkalloor Government Higher Secondary School in Wayanad have set a model in restoring the green canopy on the banks of the Kabani River by planting and conserving 40 varieties of …
Montreal - Mice in Canada are mutating and migrating farther north in response to climate change, according to McGill University research released on Monday. The study, published in the journal Evolutionary Ecology, found that "milder winters have led to physical alterations in two species of mice in southern Quebec in …
Global warming is expected to intensify the Earth’s hydrological cycle and increase flood and drought risks. Changes over the 21st century under two warming scenarios in different percentiles of the probability distribution of streamflow, and particularly of high and low stream- flow extremes (95th and 5th percentiles), are analyzed using …
Climate change means ice, where polar bears are most at home, is melting earlier in the year and so polar bears have to spend longer on land, scientists say. A boatload of tourists in the far eastern Russian Arctic thought they were seeing clumps of ice on the shore, before …
Desert dust over the Indian region during pre-monsoon season is known to strengthen monsoon circulation, by modulating rainfall through the elevated heat pump (EHP) mechanism. In this context, an insight into long term trends of dust loading over this region is of signifcant importance in understanding monsoon variability. In this …
The existence and magnitude of the recently suggested global warming hiatus, or slowdown, have been strongly debated. Although various physical processes have been examined to elucidate this phenomenon, the accuracy and completeness of observational data that comprise global average surface air temperature (SAT) datasets is a concern9,10. In particular, these …
