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 …
for the first time, in an unequivocal verdict, scientists have held human activities responsible for most of the warming of the Earth's atmosphere over the last 50 years. Latest assessment of scientific studies of climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ipcc) predicts that such actions will continue …
this is a message for all those who use an umbrella during the rains: ensure it is made of sturdy stuff. In the future, the rain is going to be intesnse. The hot days are sure to be scorching and the cold ones freezing. The extremes of climate are poised …
as a result of climate change, uk may have to bear the brunt of as many as twelve floods a year. This would be four times the annual average a century ago, and double the present annual average of six, declared the National Flood Warning Centre of the of the …
now that the drama over the us presidential election has ended, it is time to understand what is in store. Domestic politics of the us has a direct bearing on most environmental negotiations, and us representatives seldom miss an opportunity to use it as an instrument of coercion, one example …
That was the question written across many tired and desperate faces after CoP-6 was suspended. The prospects for future agreement look particularly bleak in light of domestic us politics. If Republican George Bush becomes president, many fear that the chances of the us ever ratifying the convention will be lost …
During the second week of the meeting, it became clear that there were four main areas of contention. In climate jargon, these were: sinks, supplementarity, compliance, and funding for adaptation. A note by Pronk to address these issues in what he considered a balanced manner, presented two days before the …
• Since pre-industrial times, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have grown because of fossil fuel use, land use change and agriculture. • Heat-trapping GHGs create a hothouse effect, resulting in an increase in the Earth's temperature. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …
For the first eight days, negotiations went exactly as expected. After at least two previous climate conferences that followed a predestined script, the outcome of the sixth conference of parties (CoP-6) to the climate change convention, held in The Hague last month, seemed as predictable as a soap opera. The …
global warming will have serious repercussions on the world economy. The damage from climate-induced natural disasters could rise so steeply that will will become difficult for insurance companies and even the governments to absorb it, a spokesperson for a leading British insurance company said. Global economic losses from natural disasters …
global warming over the next century could turn out to be much worse than previously estimated, says the latest report of the uk Met Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research. Even if greenhouse gas ( ghg ) emissions are stabilised (which would require an overnight cut of 60-70 …
The effects of aerosols in the atmosphere will magnify the warming over several developing countries, shows a study by the Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX), an international field experiment which is being conducted by several countries including USA, Australia, France and Germany. "Aerosols have a heating effect on the atmosphere of …
societal changes such as increase in human population have led to a steep rise in the costs of flood damages in the us . A study conducted by Roger Pielke Jr and Mary Downton of the National Centre for Atmospheric Research ( ncar ), Colorado, usa , states that even …
Rise in sea levels due to global warming threatens to drown at least 2,000 of the 17,000 Indonesian islands, according to Pelangi, an environmental group. Sutamihardja, head of the group and a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change also warned that global warming could cause sea level to …
an unknown reservoir of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, has been found within the coastal waters of the Arabian Sea bordering India's west coast. This was discovered by scientists at the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa. The discovery of the nitrous oxide reserve, commonly known as laughing gas, could …
mature forests have more potential for gobbling up carbon dioxide ( co 2 ) than young ones. This was revealed in a study conducted by Ernst-Detlef Schulze, director of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany, along with his colleagues. Huge amounts of carbon are trapped in tree …
In the little village of Pubong Fatak, 13 km from Darjeeling in West Bengal, sits Phul Bahadur, 97, weaving baskets to earn his living. He wears thick glasses tied to a rubber band around his head. On his wrinkled wrist is a Seiko watch that stopped functioning 20 years ago. …
