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 …
What does climate change look like? For many people, the first – or perhaps only – image that comes to mind is of smokestacks, or polar bears perched on ice floes. "If you go to Google and click on climate change images, you have to go a long way before …
Global mean temperatures near the Earth’s surface continued to set new records between 2011 and 2015, consistent with rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, according to preliminary findings of the assessment of the state of the climate in the current 5 years period. The year 2014 was nominally …
Research finds 20cm rise since start of 20th century, caused by global warming and the melting of polar ice, is unprecedented. The rise in sea levels seen over the past century is unmatched by any period in the past 6,000 years, according to a lengthy analysis of historical sea level …
Rio De Janeiro: The earth’s environmental systems “are being pushed towards their biophysical limits” beyond which loom sudden, irreversible and potentially catastrophic changes, the United Nations Environment Program warned on Wednesday. In a 525-page report on the health of the planet, the agency paints a grim picture: The melting of …
Some glaciers in the Himalayas mountain range have gained a small amount of mass between 1999 and 2008. Some glaciers in the Himalayas mountain range have gained a small amount of mass between 1999 and 2008, new research shows, bucking the global trend of glacial decline. The study published on …
The National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR) Research Director, Rasik Ravindran, pegs climate change studies as the most significant from the perspective of future. Ice cores recovered from polar ice sheets offer the best possibility of reconstructing past atmospheric compositions. Several ice cores have been drilled by Indian …
The total volume of water that has melted from all of world’s polar ice sheets, ice caps and mountain glaciers over the past decade would repeatedly fill Britain’s largest lake, Windemere, more than 13,000 times, according to one of the most comprehensive studies of Earth’s frozen ‘cryosphere’. Using a unique …
After more than two decades of drilling in Antarctica, Russian scientists have reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake hidden under miles of ice for some 20 million years, a lake that may hold life from the distant past and clues to search for life on other planets. Reaching …
Arctic sea ice at its lowest in 2011, says World Meteorological Organization report. The year 2011 has been the 10th warmest year on record in spite of a strong La Nina, which has a relatively cooling influence. In the event of a La Nina, the sea surface temperature is lower …
This provisional statement on the status of the global climate, released by WMO provides the technical information on world’s 10th warmest year, warmest year with La Niña on record, second-lowest Arctic sea ice extent for the year 2011. For full text: http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/gcs_2011_en.html
Sea levels could rise up to 5 feet by the end of this century, driven by warming in the Arctic and the resulting melt of snow and ice, according to this study by the International Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP). This is more than two and a half times …
Russia has lifted the ban on polar bear hunting for the first time since the erstwhile Soviet Union banned the practice in 1957, a move which has drawn flak from wildlife campaigners, a media report said. The governor of Russia
NEW DELHI: The potential for enhancing collaborative polar research between India and Norway is immense. This was the message of the Indo-Norwegian meeting titled
Water flowing from the North Atlantic Ocean into the Arctic Ocean is at its warmest level for more than 2,000 years. The sea in the Gulf Stream between Greenland and the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard reached an average of 6
A US backed proposal to ban the international trade of polar bear skins, teeth and claws was defeated on Thursday at a UN wildlife meeting over concerns it would hurt indigenous economies and arguments the practice didn't pose a significant threat to the animals. The US argued at the 175-nation …
A new research by US Geological Survey (USGS) has deter- mined that ice shelves are retreating in the southern section of the Antarctic Peninsula due to climate change, which could result in glacier retreat and sea- level rise if warming continues. The research by the USGS is the first to …
The world this year suffered the fewest number of natural disasters in a decade, but floods, droughts and other extreme weather continued to account for most of the deaths and economic losses, according to a UN report released on Monday. There were 245 natural disasters recorded this year, down from …
Ottawa: The multiyear ice covering the Arctic Ocean has effectively vanished, a startling development that will make it easier to open up polar shipping routes, an Arctic expert has claimed. Vast sheets of impenetrable multiyear ice, which can reach up to 80m thick, have for centuries blocked the path of …
London: A team of British explorers says that within a decade the North Pole will be virtually ice-free during the summer. The Catlin Arctic Survey trekked an average of about 11 kilometers (six miles) per day and swam in freezing water to take measurements of the ice and snow. Measurements …
Has climate change been around as long as the pyramids? It is an odd-sounding idea, because the problem is usually assumed to be a modern one, the product of a world created by the Industrial Revolution and powered by high-polluting fossil fuels. But a professor emeritus at the University of …
