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 …
Farmers of Adokgre and its adjoining areas in North Garo Hills of Meghalaya have adopted banana cultivation as an alternative to jhum cultivation for their sustenance. Jhum also known as shifting cultivation is prevalent in most part of Northeast, where a forest area is cleared for agriculture. Adokgre village adjoining …
Based on carbon dioxide concentrations at a location and wind speed, scientists trace particles back to their sources to identify whether the country is an emitter or a carbon sink, say Eurasian region is a net carbon sink. As part of the global fight against climate change, all countries are …
The risk of being infected by the potentially fatal, rodent-borne Hantavirus could jump in Brazil's Sao Paulo state as climate change sends temperatures higher and farmers grow more sugarcane, said scientists. More effective health education and pest control could help cut the risk of the disease in the area, along …
Last month was the third-hottest June on record globally, temperature data suggest, confirming 2017 will almost certainly make a hat-trick of annual climate records, with 2015, 2016 and 2017 being the three hottest years since records began. The figures also cement estimations that warming is now at levels not seen …
As the world warms, methane trapped underneath the frozen tundra could be released, increasing the rate of warming in a vicious circle Professor Katey Walker Anthony, of Alaska University, sets fire to methane released by hitting the frozen ground with a stick University of Alaska Fairbanks Runaway global warming is, …
Climate change will bring soaring temperatures, more intense storms, erratic rainfall, plummeting crop yields and a collapse of coral reefs to Asia Pacific unless countries fully implement their commitments under the Paris climate pact, scientists said on Friday, calling the challenges “unprecedented”. The region’s future growth and security - as …
Mumbai: India's top builders have pledged to make at least a fifth of their new housing developments sustainable by 2022, as the country looks to tap sectors other than renewable energy to meet its ambitious climate goals. The campaign is led by the Sustainable Housing Leadership Consortium (SHLC) comprising builders …
NAVI MUMBAI: Studies have shown that environmental factors have been a major cause in the rise of Tuberculosis (TB) cases. Better health can be achieved with healthier living. Doctors say this is a disease impacted greatly due to a host of environmental factors like personal hygienic with respect to respiratory …
US President Donald Trump's statement that India was extracting billions of dollars as aid under Paris climate accord is "factually incorrect", Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan said. He said India's actions to tackle climate change were funded from domestic sources. The US decision to withdraw from the Paris pact will …
Parliamentary panel head says 6-month-old report not being implemented. New Delhi: Prevention of forest fires and the resultant climate change do not appear to be high on the agenda of the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change, the head of the department’s parliamentary panel has said, complaining of …
Not that long ago, the world wondered whether clean energy could survive without lavish government support. Now the question is how far it can spread. The number of electric vehicles, which breached 1m in 2015, last year reached 2m; countries like France and firms like Volvo are looking ahead to …
A widely read cover story on the impact of global warming in this week’s New York magazine starts ominously: “It is, I promise, worse than you think.” It goes on to predict temperatures in New York hotter than present-day Bahrain, unprecedented droughts wherever today’s food is produced, the release of …
Major US cities like New York, Boston and Miami may face chronic flooding over the next few decades, warn scientists who have found that sea level rise due to climate change may cause 60 per cent of coastal communities in the country to lose their homes by 2100. Scientists made …
Antarctica ice sheet breaks off: But while the breaking off of the iceberg is worrisome, experts caution that the glaciers behind it are the bigger problem. The size of the iceberg is lesser of an issue because icebergs, according to scientists, calve all the time and have minimal direct effect …
Arctic winter warming events, winter days when temperatures peak above minus 10 degrees Celsius, are becoming more frequent and lasting longer than they did three decades ago, a new research has found. The study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, showed that since 1980, an additional six warming events …
Asserting that protecting nature is in the country's DNA, he said experts feel that India's traditional knowledge on environment protection can be utilised to deal with the dangers associated with the environment. Union environment minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday said the world was looking at India in finding ways to …
Extreme sea levels, that are expected to be experienced once every 100 years on average, may become a yearly occurrence in many areas by 2050, a study warns. Researchers including those from University of Central Florida (UCF) in the US confirmed that rising sea levels has occurred steadily during the …
HAMBURG: G20 countries have managed to avoid a total bust-up with Donald Trump over climate change, leaving the door open for Washington to return to the Paris Agreement — but at the cost of risky concessions. After the US president decided last month to pull out of the hard-fought deal …
Can Europe carry the Paris agreement on climate change forward now that America has left? That was one of the big questions as leaders of the world’s largest economies gathered for the G20 meeting in Hamburg on July 7th and 8th. Donald Trump’s promise that America will pull out has …
Union Environment minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday said had India continued with its culture of environment protection it would have set a big example before the world. Terming the present condition of our forests, rivers, air and land as a "matter of serious concern for us", he said our modern …
