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 …
Al Gore lost the presidential elections in the us but he has kept himself busy. How? By reinventing himself. At the famous Sundance Film Festival, a highly acclaimed but surprising entry was An Inconvenient Truth, a film on global-warming starring, guess who? Yes, Al Gore. In us movie circuits, usually …
For over a decade, Orissa has been teetering from one extreme weather condition to another: from heatwaves to cyclones, drought to floods. The state has been declared disaster-affected for 95 of the last 105 years. Why is this happening? Is it the result of global warming and climate change? Richard …
longest core: A core measuring more than 1.5 kilometres long has been recovered under the Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater Deep Drilling Project in the US. The impact crater was formed about 35 million years ago when a rock from space struck the Earth. The drilling project was a major success, …
signatures of the past, embedded deep inside polar ice, reveal that the current levels of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (co2) and methane, are the highest over the last 650,000 years. An international team of scientists studied air bubbles trapped in cylindrical pieces drilled from a depth of up …
The Arctic climate is changing. Permafrost is warming, hydrological processes are changing and biological and social systems are also evolving in response to these changing conditions. Knowing how the structure and function of arctic terrestrial ecosystems are responding to recent and persistent climate change is paramount to understanding the future …
In a loss of face for the Bush administration, nine us states have decided to introduce mandatory greenhouse gas emission controls in the country's first-of-its-kind regional agreement. Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont seek to freeze carbon dioxide emissions from big power …
torrential rains and swollen rivers have caused chaos across central and eastern Europe, while a massive heat wave in southern Europe has helped reduce the Portuguese woodland to tinder. Tens of thousands of people face a massive relief operation as the extent of the devastation slowly becomes clear. The death …
hurricanes and typhoons are growing fiercer and last longer due to global warming, claims a us study that found a striking correlation between the destructive potential of storm winds and sea surface temperatures. The potential wind-caused damage has roughly doubled over the past 30 years, says Kerry Emanuel, professor of …
scotland, uk, is renowned for its seabirds. But this year, seasoned bird-watchers are mourning. On the south side of the isle of Shetland, off the coast, almost 24,000 nests of the migratory arctic tern lie abandoned. A few kilometres away, on the island of Foula, the world's largest colony of …
there is real bad news on the global warming front. Stealthily-rising temperature has taken its toll, now, on Siberia's wetlands. They lay frozen for millennia, until now. Receding glaciers or ice-cover are already legion; these no longer qualify as good copy. But what's happening in Siberia has serious ecological consequences. …
sleepless babies: Newborn dolphins and killer whales don't sleep for a whole month after birth, says a study by a team led by Jerome Siegel of the University of California at Los Angeles, US. The mothers also stay awake over the period to keep a close eye on their offspring. …
Charles David Keeling, the climate scientist whose meticulous measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (co2) levels warned of human activity changing the composition of the atmosphere, is no more. He died of a heart attack on June 20, 2005. "Keeling's measurements of global co2 levels are the single most important environmental …
www.polarhusky.com ADVENTURE LEARNING The paradox of much education all over the world has long been its inability to directly involve the world outside classrooms."What I did in school was stare out of the window,' recalls Will Steger. The famous Polar explorer and environmentalist has continued to be drawn out of …
owing to rising temperatures due to global warming, the Parbati glacier in Himachal Pradesh is melting fast. A study of satellite images shows the glacier has retreated by 578 metres between 1990 and 2001, a decline of almost 52 metres per year. This is bad news, as the glacier is …
the decreasing snow cover in Southwest Asia and the Himalaya is threatening marine life in central and western parts of the Arabian Sea, which lie thousands of kilometres (km) away. According to a study published in Science (April 22, Vol 308, No 5721), reduced winter and spring snow cover in …
All politicians and scientists (except George Bush and his group of climate-skeptic scientists) accept climate change is now inevitable and that it will adversely, perhaps devastatingly, impact societies and economies. Just how much damage, they do not know. Just how this devastation will occur, they are beginning to find out. …
