The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Singapore: A cyclical drop in the sun’s radiation can trigger unusually cold winters in parts of North America and Europe, scientists say, a finding that could improve long-range forecasts and help countries prepare for blizzards. Scientists have known for a long time that the sun has an 11-year cycle during …
A new plan to curb global warming risks becoming a battleground between rich and poor nations and could struggle to get off the ground as negotiators battle over the fate of the ailing Kyoto climate pact. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol covers only emissions from rich nations that produce less than …
A new plan to curb global warming risks becoming a battleground between rich and poor nations and could struggle to get off the ground as negotiators battle over the fate of the ailing Kyoto climate pact. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol covers only emissions from rich nations that produce less than …
With climate change, the world is generally getting warmer —- but not in a slow and straight line. Instead, many models show that weather is simply becoming more unpredictable and possibly more volatile, with more severe storms, more severe droughts and more peaks in all kinds of weather extremes. All …
This US report provides and update on five key adaptation areas promoted in the Task Force in 2010. The Task Force plays a key role in leadership and guidance of the US approach to climate change adaptation. The five adaptation themes in this report are: - Integrating adaptation into Federal …
As the global population hits 7 billion this month, ActionAid has today warned that a triple crisis of climate change, desolated natural resources and rocketing food prices, could dwarf the world’s ability to feed them all. Based on new research in 28 poor countries, ActionAid’s report 7 Billion on the …
Growing demand for biofuels, extreme weather, climate change and increased financial activity through commodity future markets are the main causes of high and volatile food prices, according to this 2011 Global Hunger Index report. This year’s Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that global hunger has declined since 1990, but not …
The World Resources Institute (WRI), the UNEP, the UNDP and the World Bank have released the latest edition of the World Resources Report titled “Decision Making in a Changing Climate.” According to the WRI, to build climate resilience, developing country national decision makers are required to integrate climate change risks …
As I write this my city Delhi is drowning. It started raining early this morning and within a few hours the city has come to a standstill. The television is showing scenes of traffic snarled up for hours, roads waterlogged and people and vehicles sunk deep in water and muck.
The meteorological department records that some 60 mm of rain has fallen in just about 6 hours; 90 mm in 24 hours; and with this the city has made up for its deficit of rainfall this season. In other words, in just about 24 hours Delhi and its surrounding areas …
Advisor Climate Affairs, Dr Qamar-uz-Zaman Chaudhry has termed climate change as the major reason of unprecedented torrential monsoon rains in Sindh which caused severe flooding in the province. In a statement issued here, Dr Qamar who is also a lead author of Pakistan Climate Change Policy said "If we look …
In the context of climate change and its impact on sectors like agriculture and health, it is important to examine the changes in the characteristics of temperature extremes of different intensities and duration. In this study, an India Meteorological Department gridded temperature dataset is used to examine the changes in …
There is no denying that climate change has been affecting the higher frequency and intensity of natural disasters in the last quarter century. In the last decade, there has been a marked increase in the number of severe hurricanes, tsunamis, and earthquakes, heat waves, and mudslides. Environmental degradation is directly …
The Canadian Federal government has pledged several hundred million dollars as financial support to growers in Saskatchewan and other prairie regions affected by extremely wet weather conditions this growing season. Breadbasket Termed as ‘AgRecovery' funding, the value of support is an estimated $448 million. Known as the breadbasket of Canada, …
Abiotic disturbances, disturbances caused by non living factors, are a natural and integral part of forest ecosystems that have major impacts, positive and negative. They influence forest structure, composition and functioning and can be important for maintaining biological diversity and facilitating regeneration. When disturbances exceed their normal range of variation, …
As sovereign nations, Indian Tribes consistently strive to fully exercise their right of self determination and to maintain their cultural identity, often in the face of the severe economic, societal, and environmental challenges confronting them. Their sovereignty, cultures, and ways of life are profoundly tested in these times by the …
This paper explores some of the emerging issues that cities in the developing world confront as they begin to develop plans and strategies to adapt to the effects of global climate change. The emphasis is on low-income populations, both those now settled in cities and those still to migrate from …
Meghalaya has a fragile ecosystem covering an area. The main objective of climate change action plan is to strategize adaptation and mitigation initiative towards emission stabilization and enhances the resilience of the ecosystem. This exercise helps serving as a platform to take the climate change agenda of the state forward …
Climate change is generating an "unholy brew" of extreme weather events that threaten global security, the UN chief said Wednesday as the Security Council recognised the issue's potential effect on world peace. But the 15-member council apparently failed to agree on whether climate change itself was a direct threat to …
