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 …
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has published a brochure titled "Weather Extremes in a Changing Climate: Hindsight on Foresight," which describes extreme events that have occurred between 2001 and 2010. In addition to describing the examples of recent weather extremes, the brochure provides a map of extreme events over the …
Shine Jacob / Kolkata December 28, 2010, 0:00 IST After looking to buy land in other countries, Maldives is making a last-ditch effort to avoid its citizens becoming climate refugees. It is importing sand. In this endeavour to tackle the effects of global warming, none other than Bangladesh is playing …
THIRUVANATHAPURAM: In spite of the efforts that can be taken for mitigating the impact of climate change, an average rise of 1.5 to two degree celsius in the temperature is inevitable. Therefore, it is imperative to work on ways to adapt to the changes, R K Pachauri, chairman, Inter-governmental Panel …
CHENNAI: One metre rise in sea level will seriously hit small islands, coastal and delta regions and low lying areas, said Sujatha Byravan, Senior Researcher, Centre for Development Finance on Wednesday. Delivering the special address at the nationwide series of media seminars
Ecological diversity in Sunderban is at the threshold of decline. The fragile land here is being swallowed every day by gradual sea level rise, coastal erosion and tropical cyclones. Besides the global cause of sea level rise i.e. thermal expansion of sea water also responsible is the land degrading anthropogenic …
This report attempts to present a short ecological history of the Indian Sundarbans, one covering only two decades, to show how climate change is, within even this smallest of timeframes in ecological terms, causing exaggerated and sometimes irreversible damage. It is an attempt to explain how the Sundarbans is changing, …
This report takes a new approach to assessing the climate vulnerability of the world and its regions, countries and communities. Its analysis is built around: four distinct climate impact areas; five levels of vulnerability to climate change; and two points in time, 2010 and 2030. The climate impact areas are: …
World temperatures could soar by 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) by the 2060s in the worst case of global climate change and require an annual investment of $270 billion just to contain rising sea levels, studies suggested on Sunday. Such a rapid rise, within the lifetimes of many young …
Small island states want U.N. climate talks in Mexico next week to set an end-2011 deadline for agreeing a new treaty as a step to slow the rise in sea levels, a spokeswoman said. Many other nations, including the United States, fear that setting a time limit may be counter-productive …
This year is so far tied for the hottest year in a temperature record dating back to 1850 in a new sign of a warming trend, the three major institutes which calculate global warming estimates told Reuters. U.N. climate talks resume next week in Cancun, Mexico, where expectations are no …
Navi Mumbai airport gets 'green' signal - Business Line, 23 November 2010 The Warming of Antarctica: A Citadel of Ice Begins to Melt - Environment 360, 22 November 2010 One of the biggest challenges in our responses (or lack thereof) to climate change has to do with scale. Politicians have …
The science & impacts of climate change: sea level rise by Abhijit Mitra Head of the Department, Department of Marine Science, University of Calcutta presented at the South Asian Media Briefing on Climate Change, CSE, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 24
Sea level rise in the Indian Ocean by Satheesh C. Shenoi, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Hyderanad presented at the South Asian Media Briefing on Climate Change, CSE, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 24
CHENNAI: A sea level rise by even one metre in 2050 will have a serious impact on infrastructure, wetlands and lands along the Tamil Nadu coast line, says a study by the Centre for Development Finance. The report concentrated on the impact of sea level rise as a result of …
Chennai: Imagine a Chennai city where well-known, low-lying residential areas Velachery, Madipakkam and Kotturpuram may permanently be submerged by sea water. The Napier bridge may be seen rising directly out of the sea, while the mouth of the river Cooum is pushed inland to open into the sea before the …
The Sri Lankan Ministry of Environment with assistance of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday unveiled a draft National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy that should help the South Asian nation meet and overcome the massive challenge of climate change. Speaking at the workshop in Colombo to discuss the climate …
Twenty years ago, Taher Ibrahim raced his friends across Alexandria's beaches, now rising seas have swept over his favorite childhood playground. Alexandria, with 4 million people, is Egypt's second-largest city, an industrial center and a port that handles four-fifths of national trade. It is also one of the Middle East's …
Sri Lanka has drafted a national strategy for climate change adaptation with the support of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a statement issued by the ADB said. The ADB, working with the Ministry of Environment, has given technical assistance for a new framework to enable Sri Lanka
Dust storms scour Iraq. Freak floods wreak havoc in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Rising sea levels erode Egypt's coast. Hotter, drier weather worsens water scarcity in the Middle East, already the world's most water-short region. The Arab world is already suffering impacts consistent with climate change predictions. Although scientists are …
