Climate Impacts

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding sinking of Liberian ship off the Kochi coast, Kerala, 27/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Containers from sunken ship likely to drift towards Alappuzha, Kollam Coasts in 48 hours: INCOIS" appearing in The Hindu dated 25.05.2025 dated 27/05/2025. The original application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled …

Climate Solutions Often Harm Indigenous Peoples - UN

Climate Solutions Often Harm Indigenous Peoples - UN NORWAY: April 3, 2008 OSLO - Large-scale solutions to help slow global warming often threaten the very indigenous peoples who are among those hardest hit by a changing climate, the UN University said on Wednesday. Biofuel plantations, construction of hydropower dams and …

Public must be persuaded to embrace water efficiency

Water users will not be persuaded to cut their consumption until they can be convinced that there really is a shortage and it is in their best interests to do something about this. This was the underlying theme of a seminar arranged by the Economic and Social Research Council and …

Climate, climate change and human health in Asian cities

Climate change will affect the health of urban populations. It represents a range of environmental hazards and will affect populations where the current burden of climate-sensitive disease is high

A structural ricardian analysis of climate change impacts and adaptations in African agriculture

This report develops a Structural Ricardian model to measure climate change impacts that explicitly models the choice of farm type in African agriculture. This two stage model first estimates the type of farm chosen and then the conditional incomes of each farm type after removing selection biases. The results indicate …

Arctic climate impact science: an update since ACIA

This report presents a wide-ranging review of arctic climate impact science. It spans the width of subject areas, covering impacts on physical and biological systems, as well as on humanity. The report presents the scientific evidence for arctic climate change impacts in review sections, each of which targets a particular …

State-level economic impacts of a national climate change policy

The objective of this report is to illustrate insights into alternative policy options and the potential impact nationally and explicitly at the state level associated with a modest GHG control policy. Differences in the structure of the economy across the United States are likely to cause these impacts to diverge …

End-Permian ozone shield unaffected by oceanic hydrogen sulphide and methane releases

Destruction of the Earth's ozone shield due to the release of hydrogen sulphide and methane has been suggested as a cause of mass extinctions during periods of ocean anoxia over the past two billion years. This mechanism does not explain the end-Permian mass extinction, according to simulations with a two-dimensional …

Climate change crisis in India

In an era of unabated and unplanned development, there is greatest possibility of the environment being irreversibly affected. One such crisis which has created a worldwide impact in global warming. With a sudden rise in temperatures throughout the world, climates have changed drastically, endangering the existence of each and every …

Global and regional climate changes due to black carbon

Black carbon in soot is the dominant absorber of visible solar radiation in the atmosphere. Anthropogenic sources of black carbon, although distributed globally, are most concentrated in the tropics where solar irradiance is highest. Black carbon is often transported over long distances, mixing with other aerosols along the way. The …

Gateway of India will be under water by 2100

The Gateway of India will be wiped off the Mumbai skyline. Bhelpuri at Chowpatty will become the stuff of grandmother's tales. No flights will take off from Chhatrapati Shivaji airport. No couple will canoodle at the Marine Drive promenade and even Shah Rukh Khan will not be able to resist …

Climate change could adversely affect health, says scientist

Changing climate patterns can lead to disastrous health impacts, especially in developing countries like India, a leading scientist has warned, and urged governments and policy makers to pay more attention to researching the linkages between climate change and public health. Prof Anthony J McMichael, a fellow at the National Centre …

In Court

power of the big Banana: A court of appeals in the Philippines recently sided with the banana growers and exporters of the country and allowed the continuation of aerial spraying of pesticides. The city government of Davao had banned aerial spraying of pesticides saying aerial spraying of toxic chemicals harms …

Global warming may spell doom for Puri temple

Global warming may spell doom for some of the Orissa's heritage sites, including Puri's Jagannath temple and Konark Sun temple, according to a recent Greenpeace report. The global environmental NGO's

Student keeps date with Earth Hour

Earth Hour (8 pm to 9 pm) may have gone unobserved in many parts of the State on Saturday, but not for Aaron Pereira, a first year BA student residing at Fontainhas in Panjim. Aaron was kept busy for most part of the day sending e-mails and contacting friends to …

Hurricanes and global warming- results from downscaling IPCC AR4 simulations

A new technique for deriving hurricane climatologies from global data, applied to climate models, indicates that global warming should reduce the global frequency of hurricanes, though their intensity may increase in some locations. Tropical cyclones account for the majority of natural catastrophic losses in the developed world and, next to …

First centre to monitor climate change comes up in Chennai

India's first centre dedicated to monitoring climate change and finding country-specific solutions was opened at Anna University by R.K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, on Friday. "Tamil Nadu has always been a few steps a head of the nation when it comes to innovation. The centre …

UK, India experts to study global warming

Climate scientists from the UK and India will join hands to study the impact of global warming on crop production in India, where according to studies 10 to 40 per cent of crop production is going to be affected in the near future. Indian scientists working in the field will …

Comment: Who are the real climate experts?

Next week, government negotiators will gather in Bangkok, Thailand, for the latest round of international climate change talks. Once again the focus will be on mitigating climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Yet for many poor communities in poor countries, mitigation is not the most pressing issue. Climate change …

Can coal live up to its clean promise?

Coal is our cheapest and most abundant source of fossil-fuel energy. We probably have enough to keep the world powered for hundreds of years. Trouble is, the carbon emissions from burning it all would make the planet uninhabitable long before then. Is there a way to get the energy without …

Chief scientist revolts over biofuel legislation

Could biofuels do more damage to the climate than the fossil fuels they replace? That's the fear casting doubt on the wisdom of a law that from next month will require a certain proportion of vehicle fuel to come from biological sources.

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