The Ministry of Earth Sciences, (MoES) will set up an Ocean thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) power plant at a cost of `100 crore in Lakshadweep in Kaviratti island. The project which will be commissioned in 2017 was announced at the CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) Platinum Jubilee Foundation day celebrations …
In the centuries to come, history books will likely look back on September 2016 as a major milestone for the world’s climate. At a time when atmospheric carbon dioxide is usually at its minimum, the monthly value failed to drop below 400 parts per million (ppm). That all but ensures …
WASHINGTON/PARIS – A new study paints a picture of an Earth that is warmer than it has been in about 120,000 years, and is locked into eventually hitting its hottest mark in more than 2 million years. As part of her doctoral dissertation at Stanford University, Carolyn Snyder, now a …
A new study by scientists at Stanford University, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, tested whether hotter temperatures and higher carbon dioxide levels that we’ll see post-2050 will benefit the kinds of plants that live in California grasslands. They found that carbon dioxide at higher levels …
Pakistan is amongst the top ten countries on the globe experiencing frequent and intense climate change events such as floods, droughts, cyclones, heavy rains, extremely high temperatures, etc. The average global temperature has increased due to increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere for last …
China's Qinghai province reported the hottest month in 55 years, 3.4 degrees Celsius above the average August temperature. Data provided by the local climate centre on Saturday showed the average temperature in Qinghai last month was 16.4 degrees Celsius, the highest since records began in 1961, Xinhua news agency reported. …
Flooding due to rising ocean levels. Debilitating heat waves that last longer and occur more frequently. Rising rates of diseases caused by ticks, fleas, and mosquitoes, such as Lyme disease, Chikungunya, and Zika. Increasing numbers of Emergency Room visits for asthma attacks due to higher levels of ground-level ozone. Impacts …
Man-made greenhouse gases began to nudge up the Earth's temperatures almost 200 years ago as the Industrial Revolution gathered pace, far earlier than previously thought, scientists said on Wednesday. Greenhouse gas emissions from industry left their first traces in the temperatures of tropical oceans and the Arctic around 1830, they …
GUTAURARE, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The only dam in this small-scale farming community in eastern Zimbabwe used to provide water for both people and cattle. Now, dried to a dirty puddle, it is a source of competition rather than refreshment. As a small boy tries to fill two containers …
Climate Institute report says negative-emissions technology is imperative because risks of global temperature reaching 2C are ‘unmanageable’ Australia will blow its carbon budget with either the Coalition’s emissions reduction targets, or those suggested by the Labor opposition, highlighting the urgent need for negative-emissions technology, analysis commissioned by the Climate Institute …
A new Yale-led study published in the journal Nature Communications sheds light on the surprising role that haze in China plays in promoting the urban heat island effect [UHI], a process whereby city centers tend to be significantly warmer than surrounding rural areas. Scientists have always suspected that aerosol particles, …
As the National Parks Service turns 100 this week, we look at how receding ice, extreme heat and acidifying oceans are transforming America’s landscapes, and guardians of national parks face the herculean task of stopping it After a century of shooing away hunters, tending to trails and helping visitors enjoy …
The Earth is likely to get relief in 2017 from record scorching temperatures that bolstered governments' resolve last year in reaching a deal to combat climate change, scientists said on Wednesday. July was the hottest single month since records began in the 19th century, driven by greenhouse gases and an …
Scientists on Thursday set the outlines of a report on how to restrict global warming to a limit agreed last year by world leaders - even though the temperature threshold is at risk of being breached already. The U.N.-led study, due to be published in 2018 as a guide for …
An earthquake is building up under the Gangetic delta, which could possibly be linked with the rapid rise in global temperatures leading to climate change, according to Kolkata-based geographer Sujib Kar. “The relationship between temperature rise and rise in number of earthquakes is evident from two sets of data documented …
WASHINGTON – Rising global temperatures are clearly linked to increasing waterborne food poisoning, particularly from eating raw oysters, along with other nasty infections, a new study shows. About a dozen species of vibrio bacteria make people sick when they eat raw or undercooked seafood or else drink or swim in …
Baghdad: Record-shattering temperatures this summer have scorched countries from Morocco to Saudi Arabia and beyond, as climate experts warn that the severe weather could be a harbinger of worse to come. UN officials and climate scientists predict that, in coming decades, the region's mushrooming populations will face extreme water scarcity, …
Zanzibar — Despite on-going awareness campaign to protect Zanzibar from environmental degradation, fuelled by fast growing development programmes, the islands are still grappling with deforestation at an alarming rate, according to environmentalists. Deforestation is one of the detrimental factors of environmental degradation, as trees are giving way to farming, fuel …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Impact of Global Warming and Climate Change on Rainfall Pattern, 11/08/2016. Government has undertaken many research studies to analyze the impact of global warming and climate change on rainfall pattern in India. Analysis of observed temperature data suggests that during the past 115 years, …
About 1,000 people were taken to hospitals apparently due to heat stroke or heat exhaustion as a heat wave covered Japan on Saturday, according to a Kyodo News tally. Many locations across the archipelago Saturday logged their highest temperature this year, with 113 of the 929 weather observation spots nationwide …
