Short affidavit on behalf of the Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board (RSPCB) in terms of the National Green Tribunal order dated January 22, 2025. The application was registered suo motu by the NGT on the basis of a news item titled "Toxic kilns pollution Aravallis; wildlife and locals suffer" appearing …
OSLO: Global warming is likely to disrupt a natural cycle of ice ages and contribute to delaying the onset of the next big freeze until about 100,000 years from now, scientists said on Wednesday. In the past million years, the world has had about 10 ice ages before swinging back …
Researchers say that the Greenland ice sheet is quickly losing the ability to hinder sea level rise despite being known as a sponge for glacier meltwater. The study, published in the journal Nature, projects that sea level rise due to meltwater runoff is likely higher than what was previously predicted. …
Using Landsat data at decadal interval (1980-2013), the glacier fluctuations (glacier area, equilibrium line altitude and specific mass balance) of nine benchmark glaciers in Kashmir Himalaya was estimated. The observed changes were related with topographic and climatic variables in order to understand their influence. From the data analysis, it was …
NEW DELHI: Freshwater lakes across the world are rapidly warming due to changing climate change, a new study supported by NASA has found. This could have serious impact on freshwater supplies and ecosystems. The study used satellite temperature data and long-term ground measurements to monitor 235 lakes, representing more than …
The Greenland Ice Sheet has lost about 9,013 gigatonnes of water ice from 1900 to 2010 – and it’s dropping mass today at an increasing rate, an international team of scientists say. From 2003 to 2010, the ice sheet lost mass at a rate more than twice the rate during …
DEHRADUN: Scientists in the hills state have disagreed with environment minister Prakash Javadekar who told the Rajya Sabha on Monday that 87% of Himalayan glaciers, according to a study, were stable since 2001. Experts said, contrary to the minister's claims, most of the total 968 glaciers in the region, were …
As many as 248 of 2,018 or 12.3% of Himalayan glaciers are "retreating" while 18 are advancing, environment minister, Prakash Javadekar told the Rajya Sabha on Monday in a written reply. The minister's reply, however, also revealed that a majority or about 86% of glaciers have remaned stable. The minister …
Melting of glaciers near the Earth's poles and the resulting rise in sea level is slowing down the Earth's rotation, thereby increasing the length of our days, a new study suggests. Scientists are studying past changes in sea level in order to make accurate future predictions of the consequence of …
The first atlas of its kind, this new publication offers a comprehensive, regional understanding of the changing climate and its impact on water resources in five of the major river basins in the region: the Indus, Brahmaputra, Ganges, Salween and Mekong. The atlas shows clearly that the region’s climate, which …
Greenland's glaciers are retreating quickly, and a new study shows in historical terms just how quickly: over the past century, at least twice as fast as any other time in the past 9,500 years. The study also provides new evidence for just how sensitive glaciers are to temperature, showing that …
Glaciers on Mount Qomolangma have shrunk by 28 percent over the past 40 years due to climate change, according to a report released over the weekend. The glacial shrinkage area is compared to the measurements taken in the 1970s. The glacier area on the south slope of the mountain, in …
Greenland's glaciers may be retreating far more quickly than expected. Scientists have taken a closer look at their historical retreat and have found that over the past century, they've melted at least twice as fast as any other time in the past 9,500 years. In order to track how glaciers …
Small glaciers and ice caps respond rapidly to climate variations, and records of their past extent provide information on the natural envelope of past climate variability. Millennial-scale trends in Holocene glacier size are well documented and correspond with changes in Northern Hemisphere summer insolation. However, there is only sparse and …
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) was employed to obtain morphology, size, composition, and mixing state of background aerosols with diameter less than 1 µm in the northern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) during 15 September to 15 October 2013. Individual aerosol particles mainly contained secondary inorganic aerosols (SIA – sulfate and nitrate) and …
The snowfall has come down significantly in the last couple of decades and the glacier is melting at a higher rate putting the lives of farmers at risk,” says ‘glacier man’ Chewang Norphel. Even as global nations continue negotiations to arrive at a consensus for a global agreement to tackle …
Scientists are warning that superglacial ponds like this one are expanding to form lakes Lakes that have been forming near Mount Everest could threaten settlements downstream if they overflow. Ponds on the surface of the Khumbu glacier in the Himalayas have expanded and joined together to form larger bodies of …
In recent years, polar bears have become the lovable poster children for climate change in the Arctic. And as their preferred sea ice habitat continues to diminish year after year, thanks to warming temperatures in the region, it seems there’s no end to the polar bear’s troubles. Now, a new …
Retreating glaciers over the last 14,000 years caused a population explosion among Adelie penguins – a trend that could continue as Antarctic ice shrinks further thanks to global warming. Scientists say the current environmental conditions are far more favourable to the species than colder conditions seen at the end of …
The glaciers in the Himalayas are melting fast, agricultural heartland is drying up and the national capital New Delhi is choking on the world's filthiest air. Global warming is already changing the face of rapidly developing India, predicted to become the world's most populous, overtaking China, in less than a …
As glaciers melt and temperatures warm, more is at stake than the loss of ice. Scientists have found that melting glaciers are causing a loss of species diversity among benthos in the coastal waters off the Antarctic Peninsula. Over the past 50 years, temperatures have risen nearly five times as …
