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 …
BRASÍLIA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As at least 130 countries prepare to sign the Paris climate agreement in New York later this month, environmental experts have warned that enthusiasm for climate change action may be waning in Brazil. The political and economic crises now rocking the Latin American heavyweight could …
A group of 21 children are suing the US government for failing to adequately address global warming after a judge ruled that the case has merit and should go forward. The climate advocacy group Our Children's Trust of Oregon brought the suit on behalf of the young plaintiffs, aged eight …
New scientific studies show that the North Pole is gradually shifting towards the UK, as global warming is changing the way the Earth turns on its axis. Experts and scientists now believe the North Pole's movement is being caused by a shift in the distribution of water across the planet …
Accurate modelling and prediction of the local to continental-scale hydroclimate response to global warming is essential given the strong impact of hydroclimate on ecosystem functioning, crop yields, water resources, and economic security. However, uncertainty in hydroclimate projections remains large, in part due to the short length of instrumental measurements available …
Teak has the highest capacity for carbon sequestration among trees in India. This is the finding of a study conducted by the Gujarat Ecological Education and Research (GEER) to prepare a hierarchy of local trees in India that can reduce the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide traps …
Gurgaon: As long as the 21st-century man will continue to tamper with natural buffers like the Aravali hills, hotter summers (and warmer winters) will become a way of life. The Aravali bionetwork has been around for aeons. "They're much more ancient than the Himalayas, and they're uniquely important," says Amina …
Paris: More than 120 countries have said they are ready to sign the UN`s accord to fight global warming, French ecology minister Segolene Royal said Wednesday. Royal said the strength of support meant the climate deal clinched in Paris last year would likely be ratified in New York on April …
BENGALURU: The water coolers at VMware Software's city office no lon ger serve as gossip cor ners Employees of the Palo Alto California-headquartered virtual computing firm here prefer huddling by the trash bins. Every time Chirag Arora, a senior technical researcher at VMware in Bengaluru, wants to dispose paper or …
Satellite technology plays a crucial role in measuring greenhouse gas emissions globally, the heads of several space agencies agreed Sunday as they vowed to work together to develop a coordinated monitoring system. The pledge comes after a landmark climate accord in Paris last year at which world leaders agreed to …
Trillions of dollars' worth of financial assets may be under threat from global warming's effects by 2100, climate economists warned on today. If warming reaches 2.5 degrees Celsius (4.5 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-Industrial Revolution levels by 2100, investments worth some $2.5 trillion may be in danger, a team reported. This …
Trillions of dollars of non-bank financial assets around the world are vulnerable to the effects of global warming, according to a study on Monday that says tougher action to curb greenhouse gas emissions makes sense for investors. Rising temperatures and the dislocation caused by related droughts, floods and heatwaves will …
Earth’s seasonal clock is out-of-whack. Summers in Europe are coming ten days ahead of schedule, and could be up to 20 days early by century’s end if the current pace of carbon emissions continues, according to a new study by French scientists published Monday. And it’s not just Europe. Trees …
Climate change poses a serious danger to public health – worse than polio in some respects – and will strike especially hard at pregnant women, children, low-income people and communities of color, an authoritative US government report warned on Monday. The report, The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health …
New research identifies the historical trends that suggest we should be worried about the planet's future Contrary to what many economists suggest (see, for example, an article in The Economist entitled Hang On, published in September 2013) "development is not always good for Nature", a biologist at Tomsk State University …
Investors and financial regulators are increasingly aware of climate-change risks. So far, most of the attention has fallen on whether controls on carbon emissions will strand the assets of fossil-fuel companies1, 2. However, it is no less important to ask, what might be the impact of climate change itself on …
India will join 100 nations in ratifying the Paris agreement on climate change on April 22, Union Environment, Forests and Climate Change Minister Prakash Javadekar said at the University of Mumbai, according to a press statement. The United Nations agreement, negotiated in Paris in December 2015, sets out a global …
BEIJING — A year and a half ago, negotiators from the United States persuaded the Chinese government to commit to a deadline for reversing the growth in greenhouse gas emissions from China. The Obama administration portrayed the pledge as a major victory because China produces more of the gases that …
With global temperatures rising inexorably, some scientists and national security theorists have pondered cooling things down by tinkering mechanically with the planet’s climate. The goal of this geoengineering would be to create an effect not unlike when clouds suddenly block the sun and chill a warm afternoon. Average surface temperatures …
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Global seas could rise nearly twice as much as previous, widely accepted estimates, according to a study published on Thursday saying low-lying cities face possible disaster by the end of the century. Sea levels could surge more than three feet (0.9 meter) by 2100 …
Acclimation of leaf respiration to a 3–5-year period of warming by 3.4 °C for 10 North American tree species in forest conditions eliminated 80% of the increase in leaf respiration expected of non-acclimated trees; this suggests that the increase in respiration rates of terrestrial plants from climate warming, and the …
