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 …
Global warming could be decreasing the availability of oxygen to marine organisms living in the intermediate depths of oceans. According to a study by Ralph F Keeling and Hernan E Garcia from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, USA, a dip in oxygen concentrations has been observed in …
It is for the first time that the Bush administration has linked an increase in global warming to human activities in the us. The Climate Action Report 2002 of the us government says, "Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing global mean surface …
climate change is threatening the 22,000 polar bears that are surviving across the world. A recently released report from the World Wide Fund for Nature (wwf) states that the threat originates from the loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic. What is more terrible is that this scenario is …
already the toll in the prolonged heat wave scorching most parts of north and central India has crossed 1100. In Andhra Pradesh alone the figure has touched 1000, with temperatures hovering in the region of an impossible 49
In matters of global affairs today, there is one question that is never directly asked. But it is on everybody's mind, if not on the tip of the tongue. People don't ask it simply because they don't have an answer. The question defies a solution in current times. So it …
aerosols are mitigating the effects of global warming over the South Asian region, including India. This was the finding of a new study conducted by researchers from the Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (iitm) and San Diego-based Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The study proves that though India's summer temperatures …
an epidemic of coral bleaching has adversely affected Australia's Great Barrier Reef for the second time in four years. This was revealed during a survey recently carried out by the Australian Institute of Marine Science. The epidemic is also fast spreading to the islands of the South Pacific. Coral bleaching …
over the past half-century, Earth's entire surface or the lithosphere has warmed up significantly and is gaining energy at approximately the same rate as the atmosphere and cryosphere (the portion of Earth's surface where water is in solid form such as sea ice, snow cover, glaciers, ice caps and permafrost). …
The world is getting warmer. This can cause glaciers to melt and within the next 10 years, water from Himalayan lakes can come hurtling down in torrents, and result in floods which could threaten thousands of lives. According to a recent report of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), global …
respiratory diseases such as hay fever and asthma may increase in the near future due to global warming, indicates a recent study conducted by scientists from us-based Harvard University and Harvard Medical School. The researchers assert that global warming would result in greater production of airborne allergens such as pollen …
After having got off on the wrong foot by welcoming US President George W Bush's plan to tackle global warming, the Union ministry of external affairs (MEA) tried to make amends by clarifying that India's position on climate change was unaltered. But all it could manage was a weak-kneed response …
the Southern Ocean, which is considered the lungs of the world's oceans, is being slowly starved of oxygen due to global warming. The ocean swirls around the Antarctic. Research expeditions backed by Australia-based Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (csiro) show declining oxygen content in the ocean at depths of …
Around 55 million years ago, Earth's climate underwent a short but intense bout of global warming, accompanied by dramatic shifts in plant and animal life. Of particular interest to paleontologists is the sudden appearance in the Northern Hemisphere of several groups of mammals, including the primates. Researchers have long wondered …
• Kochi has been selected as one of the centres for a major study, undertaken by the US-based Oakridge National Laboratory, to measure the phenomenon of global warming. • An innovative Green Card Yojana has been announced by the Madhya Pradesh government. The scheme is aimed at using foodgrain as …
global warming is unquestionably responsible for causing numerous adverse environmental changes, but it is certainly not to be blamed for the recent upsurge of malaria cases in East African highlands. This claim was recently made by researchers from the uk -based Oxford University. According to them, drug resistance or the …
FOR three minutes, the night sky lit up on March 1, 2002, at the European Space Agency (ESA) launch centre at Kourou in French Guiana on the northern coast of South America. It was from here that an Ariane-5 rocket blasted off and put into orbit ENVISAT - the largest …
Rising sea levels are one of the major consequences of global warming. This could be most evident in the vast west Antarctica ice sheet. But a new study done by us researchers of the region's several inland ice rivers shows that after a long period of rapid movement and thinning, …
