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 …
In the summer of 2010, most of the European part of Russia suffered a heat wave that was unprecedented both in strength and duration, which led to 55,000 excess deaths during this period. In Moscow alone, an estimated 10,900 excess deaths from non-accidental causes occurred during the 44-day heat wave …
A natural cooling of the Pacific Ocean has contributed to slow global warming in the past decade but the pause is unlikely to last much longer, US scientists said on Thursday. The slowdown in the rate of rising temperatures, from faster gains in the 1980s and 1990s, has puzzled scientists …
A short-term surge in sea levels along North America’s northeast coast in 2009 and 2010 lasted longer than previously thought and was the result of changes in ocean circulation linked to climate change, according to research published in the upcoming issue of the journal Nature Communications. The 4-inch surface level …
The recent spate of catastrophic bushfires in WA will continue to rise and heatwaves will become more frequent unless climate change is tackled head one, a new report has found. The Climate Council report, The Heat is On: Climate Change, Extreme Heat and Bushfire Risk in Western Australia released on …
Long-burning massive bushfires will become the new normal in Western Australia as climate change causes more heatwaves of greater intensity, the Climate Council has warned. The council's report on bushfire risk in the state, The Heat is On, found the number of severe fire days in Western Australia would double …
The World Meteorological Organization has issued a report on the Climate in Africa 2013, the first in what is intended to be an annual series. It examines temperatures, rainfall and extreme events on a continent which is especially vulnerable to natural climate variability and long-term climate change due to greenhouse …
The world food crisis in 2008 highlighted the susceptibility of the global food system to price shocks. Here we use annual staple food production and trade data from 1992–2009 to analyse the changing properties of the global food system. Over the 18 year study period, we show that the global …
Based on the daily maximum air temperature data from 176 stations in India from 1969 to 2013, the climatological distribution of the number of days with high temperature (HT) defined as days with maximum temperature higher than 37◦C during summer season (March–June) are studied. With a focus on the regional …
Climate change is making Australia hotter. Hot days are happening more often while heatwaves are becoming hotter, longer and more frequent. While it has been clear for many years that climate change is a major factor in intensifying heat, recent scientific advances now allow us to understand the extent of …
Climate extremes have profound implications for urban infrastructure and human society, but studies of observed changes in climate extremes over the global urban areas are few, even though more than half of the global population now resides in urban areas. Here, using observed station data for 217 urban areas across …
Climate change and high rates of extinctions of animals and plants are pushing the Earth into a danger zone for humanity, a scientific report card about mankind's impact on nature said on Thursday. An international team of 18 experts, expanding on a 2009 report about "planetary boundaries" for safe human …
Australian firefighters continue to scramble and contain the worst bushfires in the country in 30 years. The recent fires have already burned more than 12,000 hectares of land outside Adelaide and destroyed nearly 30 homes. Reuters reported that the fires have been burning across a 240-km perimeter in South Australia. …
PARIS/MONTREAL – The year 2014 broke a series of heat records in France, Britain, Germany and Belgium, weather agencies reported Monday. In France, “2014 was the hottest year since 1900,” the Meteo-France weather agency said in a statement. The country’s average annual temperature in 2014 was 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 …
New metrics and evidence are presented that support a linkage between rapid Arctic warming, relative to Northern hemisphere mid-latitudes, and more frequent high-amplitude (wavy) jet-stream configurations that favor persistent weather patterns. We find robust relationships among seasonal and regional patterns of weaker poleward thickness gradients, weaker zonal upper-level winds, and …
Australia experienced its third warmest year on record in 2014 with six major heat waves scorching the country, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. Last year was 0.91C warmer than the long-term average, which is set between 1961 and 1990, the BoM’s annual climate statement said. This made 2014 Australia’s …
Hundreds of firefighters were battling on Tuesday to contain Australia's worst wildfires in 30 years which have already swept across more than 12,000 hectares outside the southern city of Adelaide and destroyed at least 26 homes. The fires, which are burning across a 240-km (150-mile) perimeter in the state of …
Climate change is undoubtedly upon us, and it will cause irreversible impacts on both the environment and world economies if action is not immediately taken, warns a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Environmentalists have taken to the New York City streets this week in protest …
A Paris summit in 2015 will face a tougher task to agree a U.N. deal to slow climate change after the hopes of many that cooperation between Washington and Beijing would be a magic key to end global gridlock dissolved in chaotic preparatory talks in Lima. At best, Paris may …
Socio-economic stress from the unequivocal warming of the global climate system could be mostly felt by societies through weather and climate extremes. The vulnerability of European citizens was made evident during the summer heatwave of 2003 when the heat-related death toll ran into tens of thousands. Human influence at least …
The year 2014 is on track to be one of the hottest, if not the hottest, on record, according to preliminary estimates by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). This is largely due to record high global sea surface temperatures, which will very likely remain above normal until the end of …
