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 …
Climate change will trigger harsher and more frequent heat waves in the next 30 years regardless of the amount of Earth-warming carbon dioxide we emit, a study said on Thursday. But targets adopted today for curbing greenhouse gas emissions will determine whether the pattern stabilises thereafter, or grows even worse. …
Climatic warming of about 0.5 ° C in the global mean since the 1970s has strongly increased the occurrence-probability of heat extremes on monthly to seasonal time scales. For the 21st century, climate models predict more substantial warming. Here we show that the multi-model mean of the CMIP5 (Coupled Model …
A heatwave continued to stifle Japan on Sunday as the temperature topped 40 degrees Celsius in two cities, leaving at least four people dead over the weekend, officials and reports said. The Japan Meteorological Agency said the temperature reached 40.6 C in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, in mid-afternoon. The weather agency …
Bipartisan report highlights scientific link between severe weather events and dangerous global warming A bipartisan warning over the dangers of climate change has pierced the electioneering, with a Senate committee pointing to the rising threat posed by extreme weather events and former Liberal leader John Hewson forecasting severe financial pain …
The world suffered unprecedented climate extremes in the decade to 2010, from heatwaves in Europe and droughts in Australia to floods in Pakistan, against a backdrop of global warming, a United Nations report said on Wednesday. Every year of the decade except 2008 was among the 10 warmest since records …
Global warming accelerated since the 1970s and broke more countries’ temperature records than ever before in the first decade of the new millennium, UN climate experts said Wednesday. A new analysis from the World Meteorological Organisation says average land and ocean surface temperatures from 2001 to 2010 rose above the …
The world experienced unprecedented high-impact climate extremes during the 2001-2010 decade, which was the warmest since the start of modern measurements in 1850 and continued an extended period of pronounced global warming. More national temperature records were reported broken than in any previous decade, according to a new report by …
Climate change will overturn hard won gains in reducing poverty in South Asia as changing weather patterns make accessing water and food resources even more difficult, according to a new report named Turn down the Heat - Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts and the Case for Resilience, released by the World …
Bangladesh will be one of the most-affected countries in South Asia by an expected 2°C rise in the world's average temperatures in the next decades, according to a new scientific report released by the World Bank Group on Wednesday. It says, the global warming will accelerate the sea-level rise and …
This report focuses on the risks of climate change to development in Sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia and South Asia. Building on the 2012 report, Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must be Avoided, this new scientific analysis gives a more detailed look at how the negative …
Recent extreme temperatures that are commonly followed by floods can largely be attributed to climatic warming Near-record temperatures in Pakistan have claimed hundreds of lives and devastated crops in the third major heatwave in four years. But as temperatures on Friday dipped to under 38C (100F), signalling the end of …
GUWAHATI: Assam continues to reel under intense heat wave. Possibilities are high that the current spell of heat wave might continue till Friday or Saturday. However, the death toll due to the heat wave has risen to 30. Most of the deaths were reported from Golaghat, Tezpur, Baksa, Rangia, Goalpara …
At least four persons, including one in Guwahati, have died due to the unprecedented hot weather conditions prevailing in Assam these days. The maximum daytime temperature has broken 20-year record in Guwahati city. The Kamrup (Mertropolitan) district administration has declared three holidays from tomorrow in all government and private schools …
The prevailing hot weather conditions in Assam and other parts of the North-east have hit the people hard, with five persons reportedly killed due to heat stroke today in different parts of the State. The deaths were reported from Guwahati, Nagaon (2 deaths), Gohpur and Hailakandi. In the city, the …
New Delhi: The prolonged heatwave in Delhi since May 18 not only saw extremely high temperatures ranging between 44 and 46 degrees but also led to the development of a dangerous pollutant that has become an annual feature in the capital lately. In the last week of May, levels of …
BHOPAL: Over 50 peacocks died in Morena district in the past 48 hours due to excessive heat. The forest officials recovered nearly dozen dead birds and sent them for post-mortem. The high toll raised serious concern in the district, which is home to perhaps largest number of peacocks in India. …
Hyderabad: The deaths due to sunstroke have risen to 524 since April 1, 2013, according to the department of Disaster Management of the state government. Guntur, where on Saturday the figure stood at six, has now topped the chart with 95 deaths. Similarly, Prakasham recorded 40 on Saturday, but has …
BHOPAL: As the temperature soars, city hospitals are reporting a spurt in heat related illnesses. According to data from the district civil hospital, of the 980 patients treated on Tuesday, 658 suffered due to the weather adversities. About a dozen patients of heat stroke were admitted for emergency care, said …
Heat wave conditions sweeping large parts of the country worsened, killing three persons in Madhya Pradesh, while Nagpur on Tuesday witnessed its hottest day in six decades at a sizzling 47.8 degrees Celsius. Sriganganagar in Rajasthan, with a blistering 47.5 degrees Celsius, was hottest place in the country after Nagpur, …
On the basis of climate change projections, increases in heat-related deaths are set to outweigh reductions in cold-related deaths in the borough of Manhattan, New York.
