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 …
Mercury climbed further making Thursday hottest day of the city this summer. The maximum temperature was 43.3 degrees Celsius, above Wednesday’s 42.6 degrees Celsius. If Lucknow experienced scorching heat, Allahabad simmered at 46.3 degrees Celsius and was hottest place in the state during last 24 hours followed by Banda which …
JAIPUR: The blistering heat conditions continued in the state for the second consecutive day on Sunday when maximum temperatures in the state remained on and above 42 degrees Celsius. There was a rise of almost 2 degrees in the day and night temperatures. Churu remained hottest in the state with …
The WMO’s Statement on the Status of the Global Climate says that 2012 joined the ten previous years as one of the warmest — at ninth place — on record despite the cooling influence of a La Niña episode early in the year. The 2012 global land and ocean surface …
Industrialized nations' greenhouse gas emissions dipped 0.7 percent in 2011, helped by a U.S. shift from high-polluting coal in power plants and by Europe's economic slowdown, data compiled by Reuters showed on Friday. For many years it has been a mantra that rich nations, historically the top polluters, should make …
Ahmedabad has become the first city in South Asia to come up with a Heat Action Plan (HAP), informing citizens about extreme climates in the near future and the necessary steps to tackle it. Temperatures in the city during summers in Gujarat have risen up to as high as 47 …
While Bhubaneswar recorded 42.2 degree Celsius, the highest of the season, it was also about five degree above the normal.| Illustration: Tapas Ranjan The weather office issued the first heatwave warning of the season on Friday as the mercury shot past 42 degree Celsius in the Capital, the highest in …
Country faces more frequent and more severe weather events if it fails to make deep and swift cuts to carbon emissions The extreme heatwaves, flooding and bush fires striking Australia have already been intensified by climate change and are set to get even worse in future, according to a new …
Victorians will face greater danger from heatwaves because of climate change and inadequate planning, a new report says. On the back of Australia's hottest summer on record, and with heatwaves predicted to become more frequent, the state must upgrade its preparation and emergency responses, says the Victorian Council of Social …
Climate-driven disasters such as bushfires and floods have cost Victorian taxpayers more than $4 billion over the last decade, it has emerged, as the Napthine Government released its plan for Victoria to prepare for the future impacts of climate change. The plan – released on Tuesday in state parliament – …
Environmental health research employs a variety of metrics to measure heat exposure, both to directly study the health effects of outdoor temperature and to control for temperature in studies of other environmental exposures, including air pollution. To measure heat exposure, environmental health studies often use heat index, which incorporates both …
The signs of rising water are everywhere in this seaport city: yellow "Streets May Flood" notices are common at highway underpasses, in low-lying neighborhoods and along the sprawling waterfront. Built at sea level on reclaimed wetland, Norfolk has faced floods throughout its 400-year history. But as the Atlantic Ocean warms …
A marine heatwave off Western Australia that killed fish and bleached coral was driven by unusual features in a warm ocean current, new research shows. During the 2011 heatwave, water temperatures were more than three degrees Celsius above long-term seasonal averages. At the peak of the event, for a two-week …
The Bureau of Meteorology says January was the hottest ever month in just over a century of records. Nationwide, the January average maximum temperature anomaly was 2.28 degrees, "a substantial increase" on the previous record of 2.17 degrees set in 1932. And, thanks to the unusual scale of the massive …
If extreme climatic events occurred, the worst afflicted would be some of the poorest societies on earth. This was the crux of a lecture delivered by Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman, Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and head of The Energy and Resources Institute. Mr. Pachauri who was in the …
The world must spend an extra $700 billion a year to curb its addiction to fossil fuels blamed for worsening floods and heat waves and rising sea levels, a study issued by the World Economic Forum (WEF) showed on Monday. As government and business leaders prepare to meet at the …
Reeling from an historic drought, the hottest year on record and more frequent wild weather, mayors from a number of U.S. cities urged the White House this week to take the lead on setting an agenda to address climate change. City leaders said that only the federal government has the …
Reeling from an historic drought, the hottest year on record and more frequent wild weather, mayors from a number of U.S. cities urged the White House this week to take the lead on setting an agenda to address climate change. City leaders said that only the federal government has the …
Temperatures in Sydney on Friday hit their highest levels since records began 150 years ago, after an Australian government agency warned of more frequent and intense heatwaves in the future. While a vicious cold snap has recently hit Russia and eastern Europe and the Middle East has suffered its worst …
Australia’s extreme summer heatwave, which caused devastating bushfires and saw temperature forecasts go off the scale, is part of a global warming trend, the UN’s climate panel chief said Tuesday. As the 250 lead authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s next major report meet in the southern Australian …
Harvests will fall dramatically during severe heatwaves, predicted to become many times more likely in coming decades The world's food crisis, where 1 billion people are already going hungry and a further 2 billion people will be affected by 2050, is set to worsen as increasing heatwaves reverse the rising …
