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 …
A global warming limit agreed by world leaders with great fanfare is feared to be coming close to being broken just eight months on. Climate change scientists have warned it may be nearly impossible to keep global warming below the 1.5C target set at the Paris negotiations in December after …
A new study revealed that earlier snowmelts caused by global warming are disrupting the ability of subalpine forest to regulate atmospheric carbon dioxide. The study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, suggests that earlier snowmelts that occur during colder air temperatures reduce the ability of the forest to take …
Athletes at the Olympic Games may struggle to break world records as they compete with Brazil’s rising temperatures caused by climate change. Marathon runners, swimmers, volleyball players and even soccer referees will succumb to extreme heat and lose concentration during the games, in some cases risking their lives to heatstroke, …
It's no surprise how celebrities can cause a huge impact on world issues. In fact, thanks to Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar speech on climate change, it got people talking. A study done by a group of researchers from San Diego State University prove that DiCaprio certainly made an impression. John Ayers …
In 1959 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built Camp Century beneath the surface of the northwestern Greenland Ice Sheet. There they studied the feasibility of deploying ballistic missiles within the ice sheet. The base and its wastes were abandoned with minimal decommissioning in 1967, under the assumption they would …
The results are contrary to the general notion that global warming or increased summer temperature is responsible for extreme summer monsoon rainfall events. A study carried out by researchers at IIT Bombay has found that extreme rainfall events over India do not have significant association with land surface air temperature …
In a unique study showing how different regions of the planet may react to global warming differently, researchers have shown that people in the Himalayas will have to contend with flooding, while those in the Andes will have longer dry spells and less water. The researchers, from ETH, Zurich in …
Global heat, greenhouse gases and sea levels all climbed to record highs last year, making 2015 the worst in modern times across a range of key environmental indicators, international scientists said Tuesday. A dire picture of the Earth's health is painted in the State of the Climate report, a peer-reviewed …
Some fish may cope with the changing chemistry of the oceans linked to global warming by permanently setting their body defences to night-time levels, the time of day when they find sea water least hospitable, a study said on Monday. Man-made carbon dioxide, released into the air by burning fossil …
Some fish may cope with the changing chemistry of the oceans linked to global warming by permanently setting their body defenses to night-time levels, the time of day when they find sea water least hospitable, a study said on Monday. Man-made carbon dioxide, released into the air by burning fossil …
Under fresh moves to have legislative backing for the Nigeria's Intended National Determined Contributions (INDCs) and ensure National Assembly embrace the global fight against climate change, environmentalists and other stakeholders, last week held talks with the lawmakers to develop an efficient oversight framework for the Paris Agreement. The one-day round …
Heavy rainfall, high temperatures and major pest outbreaks have taken a heavy toll on Pakistan’s cotton growing districts of Punjab and Sindh province this year. Pakistan’s Ministry of Textile Industry has expressed concern over the 28 per cent drop in cotton production during 2015-16 caused by climate change-induced phenomena. Khalid …
California's Lake Tahoe is getting warmer by about 15 times its historic average because of global climate change, according to scientists. This could alter the lake's ecology. Geoffrey Schladow from the Tahoe Environmental Research center (TERC) at the University of California Davis explained that the occurrence of rising air temperatures …
The State of the Climate report series is the authoritative annual summary of the global climate. Published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, the report is edited by scientists at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. The 2015 report is based on contributions from more than 450 scientists …
MUMBAI: The growing risk of climate change in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) due to ever-increasing carbon emissions and fast-depleting agricultural and forest land can be curtailed provided state and local bodies and people participate in urban farming reforms, says a TERI study. According to TERI's associate director for western …
They will be trained to handle auto analyzer, fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, mercury analyzer and gas chromatography The National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) will be training the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) scientists and technicians on handling specialized instruments which are required to gauge the climatic change in the area …
Variations in seasonal rainfall are often related to weather in other parts of world, such as El Niño events in the Pacific Ocean As news both good and bad pours from across India, the monsoon is once again in the limelight. From farmers, scientists and economists to astrologers, the monsoon …
“When the earth burps, Law Dome records it,” says Australian climate scientist Dr David Etheridge. Law Dome is a special spot in eastern Antarctica where scientists have been drilling down into the continent’s long-frozen surface to pull out cores of ice. Trapped in the ice cores are bubbles that give …
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - North American forests will not fight climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide at levels once hoped for because the trees may not grow big enough, a study said on Wednesday. The new research challenges previous studies that said trees could grow larger due to …
Record temperatures in the first half of 2016 have taken scientists by surprise despite widespread recognition that extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and intense, the director of the World Climate Research Program said. The earth is on track for its hottest year on record with June marking the …
