Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Containers from sunken ship likely to drift towards Alappuzha, Kollam Coasts in 48 hours: INCOIS" appearing in The Hindu dated 25.05.2025 dated 27/05/2025. The original application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled …
The Odisha Government issued heavy rain and flood alert for six coastal districts after the low pressure-induced showers lashed many parts of the State on Sunday. The Special Relief Commissioner’s (SRC) office asked Collectors of Balasore, Mayurbhanj, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Keonjhar and Dhenkanal to remain alert for flash flood. The alert …
President Obama is expected to announce on Monday an Environmental Protection Agency regulation to cut carbon pollution from the nation’s fleet of 600 coal-fired power plants, in a speech that government analysts in Beijing, Brussels and beyond will scrutinize to determine how serious the president is about fighting global warming. …
Canberra has smashed a 67-year-old record for the warmest late-autumn fortnight although meteorologists are predicting heavy rain will return to the ACT on Tuesday afternoon. Weatherzone meteorologist Brett Dutschke said Canberra has reached temperatures of at least 18 degrees every day since May 11 with Saturday being the warmest day …
The region continued to sizzle under severe heat wave with mercury levels settling above 40 degrees Celsius in several parts of Punjab and Haryana on Sunday. Chandigarh recorded a maximum temperature of 40.2 degrees Celsius, two degrees above normal and minimum of 25.8 degrees Celsius, three degrees above normal.A MeT …
Climate change has a surprising new follower: the president of the United States. The US government has been the biggest hurdle in climate change negotiations. Since discussions began on the issue in the early 1990s, the US has stymied all efforts towards an effective and fair deal. It has blocked …
After prolonged respite from the blistering heat conditions mercury took an upward swing and heat wave conditions revived in the state. Barmer remained hottest in the state recording a maximum temperature of 44.8 degrees celsius, the Met report said on Thursday. Attributing the rise in the maximum temperature to the …
GURGAON: The harsh and dry summer is taking a toll on the health of Gurgaonites with hospitals reporting spurt in cases of gastroenteritis, dehydration and heat stroke. Doctors say there are receiving more patients complaining of nausea, giddiness, muscle pain and acidity, symptoms of the body's prolonged exposure to heat. …
As June inches closer, mercury is soaring across the country. Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a statement that heat wave conditions would prevail at a few places over Gangetic West Bengal and at isolated places over Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and southwest Madhya Pradesh. Maximum temperature is expected to go …
The State came under yet another spell of scorching heat wave conditions on Tuesday with 17 cities and towns recording temperature above 40 degrees Celsius and sunstroke death toll rising to 20. While Subarnapur and Titilagarh recorded day’s highest temperature at 44.8 degrees Celsius, capital city Bhubaneswar recorded the season’s …
Loss Of Wetlands And Greenery Turns Kolkata Into A Heat Chamber; City Hotter Than Suburbs By Up To 4 Degrees It’s 6.30pm. The sun is setting. But you still feel as if you were trapped in a microwave. Even at 8pm, there is no respite from the heat, indoors or …
The persistent heat wave sweeping through most parts of West Bengal this summer has triggered concerns among climatologists, who feel that this is actually the harbinger of changing weather patterns and part of the global climate change process. The city recorded its highest temperature of the season – 41.5 degree …
This report, one of CDKN’s Inside stories on climate compatible development, looks at how the city of Ahmedabad in Western India is preparing for the increasingly extreme heat of the city, through an early warning system and heat preparedness plan. Ahmedabad is the first city in South Asia to comprehensively …
A strong heat wave is sweeping across Chhattisgarh and particularly Raipur which recorded a maximum temperature of 43.4 degrees Celsius on Sunday. People remained inside their houses and establishments to avoid the scorching sun rays.They were however relieved for sometime when the sky turned cloudy for sometime. Although it was …
Below normal rainfall has been predicted but UP, Bihar, Odisha and parts of Andhra Pradesh and Northeast India will receive normal rainfall. The seasonal rainfall is likely to be 95 per cent of the Long Period average with an error of plus or minus 5 per cent because of the …
With soaring temperatures, Tarai is in the grip of a heat wave. At least three persons have died due to extreme hot weather in the last three weeks in Rautahat district alone. Scores of people in the plains have been suffering from various seasonal diseases and health facilities in the …
Barack Obama has signed up for eight interviews with TV meteorologists on Tuesday to defend a landmark report against those who deny climate change. The interviews were scheduled as part of a carefully co-ordinated rollout of the National Climate Assessment. The exhaustively detailed account of the impact of climate change …
Part of East Antarctica is more vulnerable than expected to a thaw that could trigger an unstoppable slide of ice into the ocean and raise world sea levels for thousands of years, a new study showed. The Wilkes Basin in East Antarctica, stretching more than 1,000 km inland, has enough …
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Sunday he was hopeful that a goal of limiting global temperature rises to a maximum 2 degrees Celsius could be achieved, but urged governments to take practical action before it was too late. "We have to ask the leaders to commit to bold …
Part of East Antarctica is more vulnerable than expected to a thaw that could trigger an unstoppable slide of ice into the ocean and raise world sea levels for thousands of years, a study showed on Sunday. The Wilkes Basin in East Antarctica, stretching more than 1,000 km (600 miles) …
Hisar recorded the maximum temperature of 45 degrees Intense heat waves swept across Haryana and Punjab, including Chandigarh, for the second day on Thursday even as Hisar in Haryana recorded the maximum temperature of 45 degrees Celsius. According to local MeT office, Hisar sizzled at four degrees above normal maximum …
