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 …
At the G-20 meet in Hangzhou in China, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the leaders of world's top economies to not to limit efforts to address climate change to early ratification of the Paris Agreement but instead called on focusing on its "full success". The Prime Minister said climate change …
Word of mouth from nomadic herders led Lucas Silva into Tibetan forests and grasslands. What his team found was startling: Rapid forest growth in tune with what scientists had been expecting from climatic changes triggered by rising levels of carbon dioxide. Actual scientific findings to date, however, had been turning …
Climate models predict that the global population of lizards will be reduced by 2080 due to climate change. However, a new study revealed that the effects of global warming to the lizards might be worse than what was previously thought. The study, published in the journal Proceedings to the National …
We present a 3.2 Myr record of stable isotopes and physical properties at IODP Site U1308 (reoccupation of DSDP Site 609) located within the ice-rafted detritus (IRD) belt of the North Atlantic. We compare the isotope and lithological proxies at Site U1308 with other North Atlantic records (e.g., sites 982, …
Major Asian economies, including India and China, require more than USD 7 trillion investment to meet the stated ambition to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, a new report said today. The study 'Investing for the Climate in Asia' also found that financial intitutions need to do more before …
Research on typhoons has led scientists to believe that China, Taiwan, Japan and the Koreas will experience more violent typhoons. China, Taiwan, Japan and the Koreas will experience more violent typhoons under climate change, said researchers today, presenting evidence for a recent rise in storm intensity caused by ocean warming. …
HONOLULU – Global warming is making the oceans sicker than ever before, spreading disease among animals and humans and threatening food security across the planet, a major scientific report said on Monday. The findings, based on peer-reviewed research, were compiled by 80 scientists from 12 countries, experts said at the …
A preview of things to come? Global warming and rising sea levels may be exacerbating the widespread flooding along the east coast of the US in the wake of Hurricane Hermine this week. The category 1 hurricane made landfall in Florida on Friday with wind speeds of 120 kilometres per …
The upper depths of the oceans of the Earth have warmed significantly over the last 20 years causing an increase in the number of severe hurricanes, storm surges, loss of ice and change in global weather patterns, according to a new report. The report which was presented at the IUCN …
NEW DELHI: Without mentioning that China thwarted India's Nuclear Suppliers Group membership+ , Beijing-run media said it is "high time" New Delhi shows it means business when it comes to limiting the effects+ of climate change+ . "India has striven to become a world power and to have a bigger …
AURANGABAD: Environmentalists termed wastage of food as a major contributor to global warming while speaking at the Kirloskar Vasundhra International Film Festival (KVIFF) on Saturday. The three-day event, which concluded on Saturday, had involved not only film screenings, but also discussions on several pertinent issues related to the environment. "Wastage …
In the course of a 17-year experiment on more than 1 million plants, scientists put future global warming to a real world test — growing California flowers and grasslands with extra heat, carbon dioxide and nitrogen to mimic a not-so-distant, hotter future. The results, simulating a post-2050 world, aren't pretty. …
The sun may be setting on a popular morning brew. According to a new report issued by the Climate Institute, global warming will underpin an estimated 50 percent drop in coffee production by 2050. Bad news for coffee lovers, but catastrophic for the 120 million people in dozens of mostly …
HONOLULU – Global warming is making the oceans sicker than ever before, spreading disease among animals and humans and threatening food security across the planet, a major scientific report said on Monday. The findings, based on peer-reviewed research, were compiled by 80 scientists from 12 countries, experts said at the …
Coffee could become extinct if global warming continues on its current trajectory, according to a report by The Climate Institute. By 2050, researchers said, the amount of suitable coffee farmland is expected to have halved due to rising temperatures, pests and fungi. Wild coffee is expected to be wiped from …
HANGZHOU/NEW DELHI: In a significant step towards bringing the Paris climate deal into force before the end of this year, US and China+ — the world's top two emitters of greenhouse gases — on Saturday ratified the agreement which was approved by 195 countries, including India, in December last year. …
LEH: Residents of Ladakh, reeling under a severe water crisis, want tourists to use traditional dry toilets instead of the commonly-used flush ones. The region gets scant rains and depends on glaciers for water for daily needs. But due to global warming, the glaciers are depleting fast, posing a serious …
Dr Vir Singh, Director of the Department of Environmental Science in the prestigious GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, says fortification of photosynthesis is the key to mitigate the climate change challenge. Dr Vir Singh, while talking to The Tribune, said increasing concentration of the carbon dioxide in the …
Standing beneath the forest-green peaks of the Sierra Nevada, President Barack Obama drew a connection between conservation efforts and stopping global warming, describing the two environmental challenges as inseparably linked. Obama used the first stop on a two-day conservation tour to try to showcase how federal and local governments can …
US president delivers two major speeches on climate change, on in Nevada, pleading with politicians to act in the interest of future generations Barack Obama has issued perhaps his most personal plea yet to overcome the existential threat posed by climate change. The US president gave two major speeches on …
