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 …
Pakistan is amongst the top ten countries on the globe experiencing frequent and intense climate change events such as floods, droughts, cyclones, heavy rains, extremely high temperatures, etc. The average global temperature has increased due to increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere for last …
NEW DELHI: Rapidly growing multinational fast food chains in India are the largest contributors to hydrofluorocarbons (HFC) emissions and could add the equivalent of nearly one million tonnes of carbon emissions by 2020, says a new international study. US-based McDonald's, Starbucks, Subway and Dunkin Donuts as well as India-based company …
A new survey offers some insight regarding the extent to which Americans consider climate change a legitimate threat and how much they’re willing to pay for government policies that would respond to the phenomena. Conducted by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and The Associated Press-NORC …
The Australian Conservation Foundation has renewed its legal challenge to Adani’s Carmichael mine, appealing against a federal court ruling that endorsed its approval by the commonwealth. The ACF on Monday lodged an appeal against last month’s decision, which found the then federal environment minister, Greg Hunt, was entitled to find …
Environment ministry on Thursday announced an ambitious collaborative R&D; programme to develop next generation sustainable refrigerant technologies as alternatives to the climate-damaging hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). The announcement came a day before the International Ozone Day. Though HFC is not an ozone-depleting chemical substance like other refrigerants, it has huge potential to …
DUBROVNIK, Croatia—The cocoa industry must try to adapt to climate change or risk disastrous effects on global production, a group of cocoa industry experts and scientists said Thursday, speaking at the European Cocoa Association forum. “I believe this is one of the main challenges we have to face” in this …
OSLO – The last gasoline-powered car will have to be sold by about 2035 to put the world on track to limit global warming to the most stringent goal set by world leaders last year, a study said on Thursday. The report, by a Climate Action Tracker (CAT) backed by …
The Arctic's ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent on September 10, 2016, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). Arctic sea ice extent on that day stood at 4.14 million square kilometers (1.60 million square miles), statistically tied at second lowest in …
U.N. climate negotiators should let governments that have yet to ratify the Paris accord to curb global warming - including the EU nations - have a say in drafting the rules to implement it, the co-chair of the talks said on Thursday. The European Union was a prime mover behind …
"Their dependence on sea ice means that climate warming poses the single most important threat to (polar bears') persistence," wrote the team. The global population of polar bears -- scientific name Ursus maritimus -- is estimated at about 25,000, said the study. The bears, which have become emblematic of the …
Arctic sea ice cover could be confirmed within days as the second lowest ever recorded, the latest data suggests. According to the US national snow and ice data centre (NSIDC) the ice which forms and disperses annually has been close to its minimum extent for the year for several days …
Nineteen subpopulations of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are found throughout the circumpolar Arctic, and in all regions they depend on sea ice as a platform for traveling, hunting, and breeding. Therefore polar bear phenology – the cycle of biological events – is linked to the timing of sea-ice retreat in …
Pine forests planted in Bulgaria to combat soil erosion are falling prey to a beetle that is feeding on trees already weakened by excessively hot weather, dense planting and a lack of proper logging in the years after the fall of communism. More than 7,000 hectares of pine forest in …
The Coral living along the coastal reef of Hawaii could face extinction due to rising temperatures in the ocean. By controlling fishing activities, establishing new Marine protected patches on the sea and controlling the runoff population that arises from the land, Hawaiian officials have started their campaign to rid their …
A study published in the journal PLOS ONE reveals that teachers' climate change beliefs may influence students. However, students can still deduce the cause of climate change independently, and does not really rely on their teachers' beliefs completely. The study surveyed 369 middle school students from coastal North Carolina, a …
Britain could save 5 billion pounds ($6.64 billion) a year by 2050 if it invests now in technology to capture and store emissions underground, a government advisory body report said on Monday. CCS, which traps emissions blamed for global warming during the burning of fossil fuels and stores them underground, …
One of the biggest concerns about climate change is the effect it will have on agriculture. Many studies have suggested that rising temperatures could be harmful to farms around the world, although there’s plenty of uncertainty about how bad things will get and which food supplies we should worry about …
Food security of India and several other major key food producing countries are threatened by changing weather patterns due to warming of the oceans, which may well be the “greatest” hidden challenge for the present generation, according to a study. Changes in ocean-focused atmospheric patterns have direct implications on food …
Can India kick its habit of depending on costly import of petroleum products by getting hooked onto a new form of industrial alcohol called methanol? The government’s key think tank the National Institute for Transforming India or the NITI Aayog is seriously exploring deploying methanol as a possible way to …
VIENTIANE: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday pledged to formally join the Paris climate change agreement this year, a potentially major step toward the pact entering into force. After a meeting with President Barack Obama, a champion of the deal, in Vientiane, the White House said the two leaders …
