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 …
not even in his wildest dreams would an amateur phenologist assume that his records would aid modern, scientific climate change studies. But this is happening. Records of amateur phenologists are proving to be invaluable to researchers studying climate changes (www.nature.com, January 2, 2002). Worldwide, researchers are combining the amateur records …
"too small, too slow, or too poorly rooted.' This is how the recently released 19th annual edition of Worldwatch Institute's State of the World 2002 report describes the steps taken in the 1990s for an ecologically resilient world. Considering the dismal scenario, the document recommends "a global war on poverty …
IS THE world's environment really in crisisor is thecrisis simply in the imagination of environmental groupsresearchers andthe media? In The Skeptical EnvironmentalistBj
Radiative effects of anthropogenic changes in atmospheric composition are expected to cause climate changes, in particular an intensification of the global water cycle with a consequent increase in flood risk. But the detection of anthropogenically forced changes in flooding is difficult because of the substantial natural variability, the dependence of …
The Earth's temperature in 2001 may have been the second highest in the 140 years that meteorologists have been keeping records of. This was estimated by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). "Temperatures are getting hotter, and they are getting hotter faster now than at any time in the past,' says …
greenhouse gases and other pollutants could trigger large, abrupt and potentially disastrous climate changes. This warning is given in a new report by the us-based National Academy of Sciences. According to the report, if the planet's climate is being forced to change as is currently the case
most commonwealth developing countries will witness a drop of up to 30 per cent in their crop yield by 2050 due to global warming. India and Pakistan may see a drastic decline of 20-30 per cent in their crop production, affecting more than one billion people. In Africa, about 350 …
current forecasts of climate change for 2050 suggest a significant adverse effect on flora and fauna species and habitats in the uk. This was the finding of an extensive study that used computer modelling and observation for assessing impacts of climate change on 50 species of the country. The study …
a tiny mosquito is getting genetically altered in response to global warming, reveals a study. According to researchers at the University of Oregon in Eugene, usa , global warming has delayed breeding and development timings of Wyeomyia smithii , a tiny fragile mosquito that lives in the pitcher plant. The …
Over the next 50 years, harvests of staple crops like rice, maize and wheat may be reduced by one- third due to global warming. This has been revealed by a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report published recently. The document brings to the fore the fact that rising temperature adversely …
For more than a decade now, Orissa has been reeling under contrasting extreme weather conditions: from heat waves to cyclones; from droughts to floods. Calamities have been visiting the state with alarming regularity. Out of the last 100 years, the state has been dis-aster- affected for 90 years: floods have …
in the past 21 years, parts of the Northern Hemisphere have become much greener than they used to be. But this may not be good news as the greenery is a result of warmer temperatures, warn researchers. After studying satellite data, researchers from Boston University, usa , and the National …
australians are the worst greenhouse gas (ghg) polluters in the industrialised world, a new analysis shows. Every Australian is responsible for 27.6 tonnes of ghg emitted, while every Indian is responsible for only about one tonne, the Australia Institute analysis showed. Furthermore, average Australian ghg emissions are 30 per cent …
ozone remains one of the most perplexing air pollutants posing critical threat to human health. While stratospheric ozone 10 to 50 km above the earth's surface keeps declining, aggravating the problem of global warming, concentration of ozone in the troposphere upto 10 km above the earth's surface, also known as …
Vanishing coastlines may not be the only peril in a warming world; disease-carrying Asian tiger mosquitoes may find the hotter temperatures more to their liking and may show up in places they've never been seen before, according to new research. "Our research shows that, like many mosquitoes, this species breeds …
black carbon aerosol pollution, produced by humans, can impact global climate as well as seasonal cycles of rainfall shows new research based upon satellite data and a multi-national field experiment. Aerosols that contain black carbon both absorb and reflect incoming sunlight, therefore they can exert a regional cooling influence on …
Reducing emissions of greenhouse gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels not only will put the brakes on global warming, but would also benefit public health, according to an international group of scientists. "There is little doubt that air pollution from current patterns of fossil-fuel use for electricity generation, …
"I hear no objections, it is so decided,' Jan Pronk, president of the meeting, said in obvious relief as he brought down the gavel at the resumed session of the sixth conference of parties to the climate change convention. The meeting, held in Bonn from July 16-27, 2001, outlined details …
Water minimises the climatic effects of a cooler or warmer sun suggests Hsien-Wang Ou, researcher at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, USA. The Sun has got about 30 per cent hotter since the world began. Geological imprints of global temperatures from four billion years ago suggest that at that …
