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 Maldives on Wednesday said a budget crisis will keep its president from attending landmark U.N. climate talks, the results of which could have a huge effect on the future of the low-lying archipelago. Famed mostly for its high-end luxury resorts and white-sand atolls, the Maldives has also made a …
Climate change will affect urban workers the most, according to a study modelling the effects of climate change in 16 developing countries. The survey examined the potential economic influence of adverse climate events, such as heat waves, drought and heavy rains, on seven socioeconomic groups. Poverty will be increased across …
About 180 nations met for U.N. climate talks on Monday amid warnings that time was running out for them to reach agreement on a hugely complex pact, due for completion at the end of the year. About 2,400 delegates at the Aug 10-14 negotiations in Bonn will try to shorten …
Aid of $10 billion from rich nations would be a "good beginning" to launch a U.N. climate treaty due to be agreed in Copenhagen in December, the United Nations' top climate official said on Thursday. Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, also told the BBC World …
The G8 agreed on Wednesday to try to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius and cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent, but it failed to persuade China and India to join a bid to halve world emissions. With only five months until a new U.N. climate pact …
G8 leaders were due to agree a goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels at a summit in Italy on Wednesday. Here are some facts about the target, previously adopted by European Union nations and due to be widened to the United States, …
The agriculture sector, which in previous Economic Surveys seemed to be pulling out of a bad patch, slipped back into a dismal 1.6% growth in 2008-09, the latest report said. The worst show was in the third quarter, which, on a year-on-year basis, showed a 0.8% decline. The crimped gross …
The Himachal apples will not taste as they used to do in the best days of their harvests. And the fruit is also not expected to be available in abundance this time around. This is perhaps the first visible adverse affect of the climate
Major economies including the United States and China are considering setting a goal of halving world greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 when they hold a summit in Italy next month, a draft document showed. The text also says the 17-member Major Economies Forum (MEF) will seek to double public investments …
June 25: This is supposed to the monsoon season, but the severe heat wave conditions in many parts of the state make it seem as if summer has not bid goodbye yet. In all, 18 districts in the state have recorded deficit (nine districts) and scanty rainfall (nine districts). According …
The United States has been resisting European calls for industrialized nations to target an upper limit for global warming of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), according to a draft summit text. Two degrees is seen by the European Union and many developing countries as the threshold beyond which climate change …
LUCKNOW: As dry hot westerly winds coming from deserts of Rajasthan continued to lash north India, the state was gripped by a severe heat wave. Almost all the districts of UP recorded hottest day of this summer on Monday. No respite is in sight as weatherman predicted that heat wave …
BHUBANESWAR: With monsoon playing truant and hot dry winds from the desert plains fuelling the summer heat, Bhubaneswar turned into a burning cauldron on Monday recording 44.6 degrees Celsius, highest for the season and 10 degrees above normal. Such was the condition that denizens complained of burning sensation during the …
There have been several air circulation disturbances in the recent past. Heat waves have scorched Orissa and West Bengal, while cyclonic storms took shape in the Bay of Bengal. Scientists pore over data to explain the unusual weather, writes Archita Bhatta Met department officials say a cyclonic storm called Bijli …
Climate change could lead to a rise in average summer temperatures in parts of Britain that is nearly double the level which the European Union and others say is dangerous, a study said on Thursday. The government-backed report warned that southeast England could see a 3.9 Celsius (7 Fahrenheit) rise …
Climate change has already caused "visible impacts" in the United States and poses particular risks to the U.S. agriculture and energy industries, a new government report said on Tuesday. The report, which lays out the effects of global warming on specific U.S. regions and sectors, calls for quick policy action …
There is "scarcely an instrument of U.S. foreign policy" that was not vulnerable to climate change, which scientists say will raise sea levels by melting glaciers and ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica, Kerry, a Democrat, said at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting. U.S. military hubs that could be …
The response of the Arabian Sea to global warming is the disruption in the natural decadal cycle in the sea surface temperature (SST) after 1995, followed by a secular warming. The Arabian Sea is experiencing a regional climate-shift after 1995, which is accompanied by a five fold increase in the …
