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 …
Global climate change will have inevitable consequences and implications for the humanitarian community. Although specific outcomes are unclear, it is certain that the world will experience significant transformations in the next 20 years, and that currently vulnerable populations will be among those most affected. Researchers from the Stockholm Environment Institute, …
Climate change is without doubt one of the foremost and most profound threats to environmental security and basic human rights, and its effects are already being observed across the globe. For human populations, the impacts are considerable, with an estimated 325 million people adversely affected, and 300,000 deaths each year. …
This document says that being one of the most affected and vulnerable countries in the world due to climate change Bangladesh is certainly well positioned to raise its voice and bargain for getting a fare share in a global climate deal. The prerequisites for these include adequate knowledge to present …
The rate of sea level rise and its causes are topics of active debate. Here we use a delayed response statistical model to attribute the past 1000 years of sea level variability to various natural (volcanic and solar radiative) and anthropogenic (greenhouse gases and aerosols) forcings. We show that until …
The Maldivian president and ministers held the world's first underwater cabinet meeting on Saturday, in a symbolic cry for help over rising sea levels that threaten the tropical archipelago's existence. Aiming for another attention-grabbing event to bring the risks of climate change into relief before a landmark U.N. climate change …
Colombo: Maldives, facing a grave threat of being swamped by the rising sea levels, appealed for concerted action on climate change when its Cabinet held the world
MUMBAI: 350. That is the threshold number that may save the world from an impending ecological disaster, be it due to melting of glaciers, rising sea levels, global warming or flash floods. Scientists across the globe who have been studying the erratic climate pattern have estimated that the threshold level …
Mass loss from the glaciers along the margins of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets is increasingly contributing to sea level rise. However, ice loss as a result of accelerated flow, known as dynamic thinning, is so poorly understood that its potential future contribution to sea level remains unpredictable. Here, …
As world leaders struggle to hash out a new global climate deal by December, they face a hurdle perhaps more formidable than getting big polluters like the United States and China to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: how to pay for the new accord. This is the first article in a …
A rising population will make it harder for the United States to make 2050 cuts in greenhouse gas emissions than for Russia and some other rich nations with shrinking populations, a Reuters survey showed. Leaders of the Group of Eight agreed in July to cut developed nations' emissions by 80 …
Northern Subcontinent Pumping Out 54Tn Litres Every Year Amit Bhattacharya | TNN New Delhi: The amount of groundwater pumped out by Delhiites and others across northern India is highest in the world and is contributing as much as 5% to the total rise in sea levels. A new study using …
Mumbai A Bandra girl was among 22 campaigners and scientists from Greenpeace International who rebelled against the loading of a large-scale coal consignment from the Norwegian mine Svea Nord onto a transport ship. The protest took place in Norway
Mango buds, honeysuckle and muster-flower are blooming earlier in the winter. Foggy days are longer than in the past and northern part of Bangladesh is no more cooler. Cyclone and flood are becoming common and frequent every year. These are indications of a warming climate. The Bangladesh is particularly vulnerable …
The ongoing global climate change (CC) has already caused a grave concern to the country's agriculture, irrigation, navigation, ecology, bio-diversity, weather, environment and underground water levels, concerned experts said. As a result, rainfalls, floods, cyclones, droughts, cold and hot spells, sea and surface warming, water contamination, water and soil salinity, …
This new short film highlights plight of the Maldives, one of the world's most vulnerable countries to sea level rise. Produced by TVEAP in collaboration with COM+ Alliance of Communicators for Sustainable Development, it is based on an exclusive interview with President Nasheed of Maldives. To see this film check …
This report provides an overview of a major ongoing scientific programme being coordinated by government to assess climate change and its impact on India. The results of various studies being done under this programme seek to enhance understanding of the phenomenon of climate change and its impact on various sectors …
