The amount of heat soaked up by the oceans has surged in the past two decades in a sign of worsening global warming despite a slowdown in temperature rises at the Earth's surface, a U.S. study showed on Monday. The trend of warmer oceans, blamed on man-made emissions of greenhouse …
A combination of torrential rains in the north of the Zambezi and severe drought in southern Mozambique has prompted the country’s relief agency, the Disaster Management Technical Commission (CTGC) to issue an orange alert. This is one step removed from the maximum state of disaster readiness, a red alert. The …
South Africa suffered its driest year on record in 2015, the national weather service said on Thursday, as a drought that has threatened the vital maize crop and hit economic growth showed no sign of abating. Average rainfall was 403 mm, about a third less than the 608 mm annual …
OSLO: Global warming is likely to disrupt a natural cycle of ice ages and contribute to delaying the onset of the next big freeze until about 100,000 years from now, scientists said on Wednesday. In the past million years, the world has had about 10 ice ages before swinging back …
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) recorded hottest December in last 114 years in 2015 despite several parts of the country experiencing cold wave conditions in that month. The period from September to December last year was also the hottest since 1901, the year when IMD started recording data, officials said. …
The effects of type 1 and type 2 diabetes on the body's physiological response to thermal stress is a relatively new topic in research. Diabetes tends to place individuals at greater risk for heat-related illness during heat waves and physical activity due to an impaired capacity to dissipate heat. Specifically, …
MONTREAL – Temperatures at the North Pole rose above the freezing point Wednesday, 20 degrees Celsius above the midwinter norm and the latest abnormality in a season of odd weather. Canadian weather authorities blamed the temperature spike on the freak depression that brought record Christmas temperatures to North America and …
The ferocious storm cell that spawned deadly tornadoes in the US over the weekend is expected to develop into what meteorologists call a "bomb cyclone", steering exceptionally warm air over the Arctic and more flooding rains into the UK. One widely used computer model, the Global Forecast System, is predicting …
Missouri has been engulfed by “historic and dangerous” flooding with water levels expected to rise to record levels in the coming days in the wake of a severe storm that has wreaked devastation throughout the southern and midwest United States. As the National Guard was called in to maintain security …
Jogimatti reserve forest in Chitradurga district has got the tag of a Wildlife Sanctuary. An official declaration in this regard will be made by the Ministry of Environment and Forests shortly. Minister For Forest, Ecology and Environment B Ramanath Rai told ‘Express’ over phone that the process in this regard …
In recent decades there has been an increase in magnitude and occurrence of heat waves and a decrease of cold waves which are possibly related to the anthropogenic influence (Solomon et al., 2007). This study describes the extreme temperature regime of heat waves and cold waves across South America over …
Another series of high temperatures has hit the country with low-lying areas expected to record extreme temperatures between 33 and 42 degrees celcius. In a statement last week, the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) said high temperatures were a cause for concern in the country. MSD said the extreme hot and …
PUNE: The city's weather, moderate with average temperatures ranging between 20 and 28 degrees Celsius, hardly needs much air conditioning, but the pace at which constructions are coming up and the building material used have increased the need for the cooling machines in the last two decades. Experts said Pune …
Elementary and middle schools were asked to suspend outdoor activities as Beijing issued another orange alert for smog, which will go into effect beginning Tuesday. The warning comes a week after Beijing’s air pollution levels peaked to a year-high. Smog returned to envelop parts of northern and central China Sunday, …
Hyderabad: Climate change is as much a local worry as it is global. Over the years minimum and maximum temperatures have been rising in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. This year Hyderabad and other parts of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are yet to experience the expected drop in temperatures for winter. …
The Global Climate Risk Index 2016 analyses to what extent countries have been affected by the impacts of weather-related loss events (storms, floods, heat waves etc.). The most recent data available - from 2014 and 1995–2014 - were taken into account. The countries affected most in 2014 were Serbia, the …
Using current climate models, regional-scale changes for Florida over the next 100 years are predicted to include warming over terrestrial areas and very likely increases in the number of high temperature extremes. No uniform definition of a heat wave exists. Most past research on heat waves has focused on evaluating …
Floods, heat waves, droughts, storms – all such natural disasters linked with climate change - have claimed as many as 606,000 lives in the past 20 years. Detailing the devastating impact of global warming, a report by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction suggests that weather-related disasters will only …
India ranks third, after the US and China, among the five countries hit the most by natural disasters over the last 20 years, a report released by the United Nations office on disaster risk reduction has said. The Philippines and Indonesia round up the top five. `The Human Cost of …
Ninety per cent of the disasters that occurred during the past decade have been caused by floods, storms, heat waves and other weather-related events, according to a UN report. In a report released on Nov 23, 2015, titled The Human Cost of Weather Related Disasters, the UN claimed that weather-related …
