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 …
PUNE: The city's weather, moderate with average temperatures ranging between 20 and 28 degrees Celsius, hardly needs much air conditioning, but the pace at which constructions are coming up and the building material used have increased the need for the cooling machines in the last two decades. Experts said Pune …
NEW DELHI – Farmer Ajmad Miyah has given up on ever settling down again. Three years after the sea swallowed his home on the Bangladeshi coast, he still has no property or possessions, and survives by tilling other people’s fields in exchange for food. “I’ve accepted that this is reality,” …
Recent work has suggested that sections of the West Antarctic ice sheet are already rapidly retreating, raising concerns about increased sea-level rise; now, an ice-sheet model is used to simulate the mass loss from the entire Antarctic ice sheet to 2200, suggesting that it could contribute up to 30 cm …
This publication reports on the current drought moving through the Pacific Islands, brought by one of the strongest El Niño events since record. It describes regional environmental and sociopolitical impacts of El Niño mainly in freshwater supply, food supply and human health. It also summarizes some of the strategies and …
Underscoring yet another reason why an ambitious climate deal must come out of upcoming COP21 talks in Paris, a new United Nations report warns of the "high price" of extreme weather disasters that are spurred in large part by a warming globe and rising sea levels. An average of 335 …
The long-term rise in global temperatures, the dominant cause of which is the anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases, combined with the effects of a developing El Niño, have resulted in unusual global warmth in 2015. The global-average near-surface temperature for 2015 is likely to be the warmest on record according …
The global average surface temperature in 2015 is likely to be the warmest on record and to reach the symbolic and significant milestone of 1° Celsius above the pre-industrial era. This is due to a combination of a strong El Niño and human-induced global warming, according to the World Meteorological …
Ahead of COP21 in Paris, countries have tabled their emissions reductions pledges in the form of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). New Oxfam-commissioned research, carried out by Climate Analytics, uses modelling to assess the impact of aggregate INDC ambition. It estimates that 3°C of warming, compared with 2°C of warming, …
Syria, Libya and Yemen are among the countries whose ability to withstand climate change shocks and stresses has deteriorated most in the past five years, suggesting conflict makes people more vulnerable to climate impacts, researchers said. The University of Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN), released on Tuesday, uses 46 …
MUMBAI: Close on the heels of the state move to declare Worli Koliwada a slum in order to allow towers (TOI, November 12), comes the revelation that Mumbai's draft coastal zone management plan (CZMP) will be put up for public consultation without any mention of the koliwadas, the city's original …
KOZHIKODE: According to a recent report of Climate Central, a US-based non-profit research and journalism organisation, the rise in sea level owing to global warming could submerge land home to nearly 43 lakh people in the state. The study, ‘Mapping Choices Carbon, Climate, And Rising Seas Our Global Legacy’, said …
Stockholm: Saudi Arabia, whose oil-fueled economy could suffer from global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, today submitted a climate action pledge to the United Nations. Though thin on commitments, the Saudi pledge was symbolically important because the desert kingdom has been seen as reluctant to join the fight against …
Homes belonging to more than half a billion people could be submerged by rising sea levels if the current rate of global warming continues, scientists have said. A 2C increase in the Earth's temperature would result in houses occupied by 130 millon people being left underwater by rising sea levels, …
The rise in global temperatures from pre-industrial levels will this year exceed 1 degree Celsius for the first time, Britain’s Met Office said on Monday. That would put global warming more than half way towards the 2 degree limit by 2100 that negotiators from more than 190 countries hope to …
PARIS: More than 60 environment and energy ministers tasked with inking a global pact in December to rein in climate change, meet in Paris from Sunday seeking to narrow political rifts. The three-day gathering comes days after the UN issued a fresh warning that current carbon-cutting pledges go nowhere near …
UNEP says the world can still reach the 2-degree target with emissions of 52 billion tons by 2020 The U.N.’s environmental authority has quietly raised its assessment of the level at which global greenhouse gas emissions must peak to avoid dangerous climate change, as governments seek a new accord to …
Human activities, such as greenhouse gas emissions and land use, influenced specific extreme weather and climate events in 2014, including tropical cyclones in the central Pacific, heavy rainfall in Europe, drought in East Africa, and stifling heat waves in Australia, Asia, and South America, according to a new report released. …
In a few weeks, world leaders will gather in Paris to negotiate a climate change agreement that will frame the global agenda on this issue for the next decade and beyond. As a new Pew Research Center survey illustrates, there is a global consensus that climate change is a significant …
MIAMI: Melting ice in West Antarctica is a major concern for global sea levels, and a key area may already be unstable enough to unleash three meters of ocean rise, scientists said Monday. The study follows research out last year, led by NASA glaciologist Eric Rignot, warning that ice in …
A key area of ice in west Antarctica may already be unstable enough to cause global sea levels to rise by 3m, scientists said on Monday. The study follows research published last year, led by Nasa glaciologist Eric Rignot, warning that ice in the Antarctic had gone into a state …
