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 …
Mussoorie/Almora: Uttarakhand's state flower Burans has made an appearance at least a month earlier than usual this year flowering in the hills of Garhwal and Kumaon in February instead of March when it generally blossoms. While experts evaluate the long-term implications, those engaged in its plucking and processing are keeping …
The south-western United States is almost certain to experience a “megadrought” lasting decades if global warming continues unchecked, researchers have warned. The once-mighty Colorado river, which has regularly failed to reach the ocean since the 1960s, is already in the grip of the worst 15-year drought on record with the …
In experiments designed to simulate moderate future warming, scientists in Britain found that such ponds -- a metre (three feet) across -- gradually lose the capacity to soak up one kind of greenhouse gas and give off even more of another. After seven years at higher-than-ambient temperatures, "the ability of …
A tropical storm — named Dineo — has swept in from the Indian Ocean, causing extensive flooding as it made landfall in Mozambique. More damage is threatened as it swings south and west. Tropical storms are classified once clouds have reached an organised cyclonic formation and wind speeds have exceeded …
With 2016 being declared as the hottest year on record, the dangers of global warming on the world loom larger than ever. The massive Antarctic region serves as a measuring unit when it comes to climate change. Scientists are constantly monitoring the ice shelves for any changes – increase or …
Scientists have warned that oxygen content in the world's oceans has decreased by more than two per cent since 1960, putting marine life at high risk of devastating consequences. They said oxygen, which is an essential necessity of life on land and in the ocean, is threatened by global warming. …
A tropical storm – named Dineo – has swept in from the Indian Ocean, causing extensive flooding as it hit landfall in Mozambique. More damage is threatened as it swings south and west. Tropical storms are classified once clouds have reached an organised cyclonic formation and wind speeds have exceeded …
A musical protest at the Rio carnival will stress the damaging impacts of factory farming on indigenous people and on global warming. Concern about the environmental impact of industrialised farming through the use of pesticides and the destruction of the rainforest has even spread to Brazil’s famous Rio carnival. One …
KOCHI: With mercury levels shooting up in several parts of the state, the Kerala forest department has activated its fire alert mechanism in forest areas and buffer zones. While officials and experts say that Kerala does not need to worry about fires of the magnitude reported in other parts of …
New Delhi: Time and again, we are confronted with massive changes around the world that bear testimony to the haunting impact of the ever-changing climate. This impact on ecology has given rise to a rapid increase in burning of fossil fuels, emission of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, large-scale deforestation, …
There has been a progressive deepening of winter convection in the Labrador Sea since 2012, with the individual profile maximum depth exceeding 1800 m since 2014 and reaching 2100 m in 2016. This increase, during repeated positive phases of the winter North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), resembles that during the formation …
The largest regional precipitation events are likely to become exponentially more frequent due to global warming and the increases in atmospheric moisture content that it will bring, according to new research. We can expect a lot more rain in a warming world, researchers say The frequency of large rainfall events …
Environmentalists' and scientists' concern over climate change and its effects are on another level altogether. With 2016 being declared as the hottest year on record, the dangers of global warming on the world loom larger than ever. The massive Antarctic region serves as a measuring unit when it comes to …
Some 14,000 km from Japan, a 33-member team is researching a wide range of issues on global warming at Showa Station, Japan’s Antarctic research center. A key pursuit in the research is how global warming is affecting the continent, premised on the notion that rising sea temperatures may be causing …
The food supply is being increasingly challenged by climate change and water scarcity. However, incremental changes in traditional cropping systems have achieved only limited success in meeting these multiple challenges. In this study, we applied a systematic approach, using model simulation and data from two groups of field studies conducted …
Faced with a U.S. retreat from international efforts to tackle climate change, European Union officials are looking to China, fearing a leadership vacuum will embolden those within the bloc seeking to slow the fight against global warming. While U.S. President Donald Trump has yet to act on campaign pledges to …
Oslo's main trash incinerator has shown promising results in the world's first experiment to capture greenhouse gases from the fumes of burning rubbish as a new way to slow climate change, officials said on Tuesday. If built at full scale, however, the technology would be a very costly way to …
United States President Donald Trump is likely to withdraw America from the Paris climate agreement, according to former adviser and world-renowned crackpot climate change denier, Myron Ebell. Speaking at an event hosted by the Global Warming Policy Foundation and the Foreign Press Association in London, former Donald Trump adviser Myron …
Deutsche Bank, the biggest bank in Germany, has said it will stop financing coal projects as part of its commitments under the Paris agreement to tackle global warming. “Deutsche Bank and its subsidiaries will not grant new financing for greenfield thermal coal mining and new coal-fired power plant construction,” it …
Europe stands “ready to lead the fight” for global emissions reductions even if Donald Trump undercuts the bloc’s efforts to tackle the issue, the European Commission’s energy chief has said. Sign up By signing up you confirm that you have read and agree to the terms and conditions, cookie policy …
