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 percentage of the earth’s land surface covered by extreme heat in the summer has soared in recent decades, from less than 1 percent in the years before 1980 to as much as 13 percent in recent years, according to a new scientific paper. Smog from peat fires outside Moscow …
“Climate dice,” describing the chance of unusually warm or cool seasons, have become more and more “loaded” in the past 30 y, coincident with rapid global warming. The distribution of seasonal mean temperature anomalies has shifted toward higher temperatures and the range of anomalies has increased. An important change is …
Srinagar: Above normal temperatures for the past one month in Kashmir has posed a fresh challenge for the authorities looking after the conservation of Dal Lake, the city’s major tourist destination. With the Valley getting no respite from the heat wave, the weeds have been growing in the lake at …
"It is too early to proclaim the 'ice sheet's future doom'" caused by climate change, lead author Kurt Kjaer of the University of Copenhagen wrote in a statement of the findings in Friday's edition of the journal Science. An examination of old photos taken from planes revealed a sharp thinning …
Climate change increased the odds for the kind of extreme weather that prevailed in 2011, a year that saw severe drought in Texas, unusual heat in England and was one of the 15 warmest years on record, scientists reported on Tuesday. Overall, 2011 was a year of extreme events - …
Protecting householders from devastating floods of the kind seen over the last few weeks across the UK will cost at least £860m by 2015, the government's climate change advisers have warned. Since the start of May, more than 3,000 properties have been flooded, while 55,500 properties have received a flood …
Temperatures soared to more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit in several cities as Americans dipped into the water, went to the movies and rode the subway just to be in air conditioning for relief from unrelenting heat that has killed at least 30 people across half the country. The heat on …
Amritsar: Heat wave continues to claim lives with six more deaths reported in the city in the past three days. Police reports reveal that the death toll due to scorching heat has touched 30 in the holy city. Most of the victims are yet to be identified. The police said …
Hydrological processes in the humid tropics differ from other regions in having greater energy inputs and faster rates of change, including human-induced change. Human influences on population growth, land use and climate change will profoundly influence tropical hydrology, yet understanding of key hydrological interactions is limited. We propose that efforts …
As the city grappled on Friday with a heatwave and a power demand that broke all records, residents of a village in Alipur damaged two low-floor DTC buses and some private vehicles in protest against scarcity of water. Residents threw stones at vehicles and disrupted traffic for two hours on …
KOLKATA, 11 JUNE: Today the season's death toll due to heatstroke rose higher, with five more dying as a result of persistent high temperature. In a tribal area in Birbhum, Laxmi Murmu (45) died of a sunstroke as temperatures in the district soared to 45.1 degrees Celsius. In Purulia, heatwave …
LUCKNOW: Even as heat wave conditions intensified in the state on Monday with mercury level 5-7 degrees above normal in most districts, it is now also turning out to be the longest dry and hot weather spell in summer in last two decade. While Allahabad was hottest with 46.2 degrees …
Searing heatwave conditions continue to make life miserable in Sundargarh district with the mercury hovering between 42 and 46 degree Celsius. Unofficially, as many as 19 have fallen to the heat with the latest death being reported from Raidafai area of Birmitrapur in Panposh sub-division. Nandalal Sharma (55) reportedly died …
Bhubaneswar: Normal life was crippled on the day as heat wave continued in most parts of Odisha with mercury touching 46.6 degree Celsius in the state capital of Bhubaneswar and Talcher. The state's highest temperature of 46.6 degree C was recorded here and Talcher while as many as seven towns …
MIDNAPORE, 6 JUNE: An intense heatwave is prevailing in most parts of West Midnapore district for the past one week, paralysing normal life as day temperature continues to hover above 45 degrees Celsius in most places. Although unofficial sources have reported 26 sunstroke deaths across the district in the last …
Kolkata: The relentless heat killed 67 more people across West Bengal on Tuesday, six of them in Kolkata, pushing up the death toll to 86 in just two days. Five prize horses also died despite water and ice therapy. The Met department has warned that it will get worse as …
New Delhi: It’s that time of the year when the scorching sun saps the energy out of you. But if you have been feeling hotter in certain parts of the city, blame it on the ‘urban heat island (UHI) effect.’ Heat islands — as they have been termed by scientists …
Bhubaneswar: There has been no respite so far in the in the heat-wave conditions in the State with at least 14 districts recording over 40 degrees Celsius on Sunday the death toll due to sunstroke rising to 82 according to unofficial figures although in official records it stood at 20 …
BHUBANESWAR: The gruelling heatwave claimed nine more lives in Odisha on Saturday as day temperature soared across the State. The official death toll jumped from 10 to 19 on a single day. Such has been the impact of the scorching conditions that even Malkangiri, Odisha’s southernmost district, faced the heat. …
