BENGALURU: Climate change poses muttiple threats to mankind. The phenonemon triggers a chain of events. Droughts lead to less food and protests, ultimately leading to wars..Rise in temperatures as a result of global warming results in excessive rain and extreme famine. Large-scale drought is being increasingly linked to the incidence …
Stockholm: Saudi Arabia, whose oil-fueled economy could suffer from global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, today submitted a climate action pledge to the United Nations. Though thin on commitments, the Saudi pledge was symbolically important because the desert kingdom has been seen as reluctant to join the fight against …
Human activities, such as greenhouse gas emissions and land use, influenced specific extreme weather and climate events in 2014, including tropical cyclones in the central Pacific, heavy rainfall in Europe, drought in East Africa, and stifling heat waves in Australia, Asia, and South America, according to a new report released. …
Heat waves are the most significant cause of mortality in the US compared to other natural hazards. Prior studies have found increased heat exposure for individuals of lower socioeconomic status in several US cities, but few comparative analyses of the social distribution of urban heat have been conducted. To address …
Coastal Asia may suffer the most from extreme weather patterns over the next 50 years. Scientists have taken a closer look at climate models and have found that these areas are particularly vulnerable. Heat waves, typhoons and flash floods have been increasing occurrence globally. This is largely due to shifting …
The Gulf in the Middle East, the heartland of the global oil industry, will suffer heatwaves beyond the limit of human survival if climate change is unchecked, according to a new scientific study. The extreme heatwaves will affect Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha and coastal cities in Iran as well as …
The United States and other rich nations are doing less than their fair share to fight climate change under a U.N. accord due in December while China is outperforming, a report by 18 civil society groups said on Monday. Overall, governments' pledges for curbs on greenhouse gas emissions are not …
OSLO: Corals reefs are suffering a severe underwater heat wave this year for the third time on record, including a mysterious warm patch in the Pacific known as "The Blob", scientists said on Thursday. The bout of record high temperatures in parts of the oceans, stoked by climate change, is …
NEW DELHI: India has pledged to further reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions its produces for every dollar of economic output, increase the share of non-fossil fuels in the installed power generation capacity, and increase its forest and tree cover, which will provide additional carbon sinks. This is not …
National promises to curb greenhouse gas emissions will help avert the worst levels of global warming by 2100, but more action is needed to keep temperature rises within the 2 degree limit set by governments, a study showed on Monday. Promises by governments this year to restrain emissions beyond 2020 …
As Japan this week dealt with a trifecta of natural phenomena — flood, earthquake and volcano — a recent survey has found that Tokyo’s high exposure to man-made and natural threats makes it the world’s second-riskiest city to live in after Taipei. In a recent report, the Lloyd’s international insurance …
After several meetings that have been made by national climate change negotiators on this world most threatening issue that seems not to spare our health, economy also having a greater threatening effects on the lives and properties of people, there has been few developments made by negotiators of some countries …
The heat wave conditions made a comeback in most parts of western Rajasthan on Sunday as no rainfall occurred in over a month in the state while Churu became the hottest place at 42.8 degrees Celsius, a MeT report said. Winds carrying dust blew in the hot and dry weather …
A wildfire raging in California's Kings Canyon National Park forced the evacuation of about 20 homes and a heat wave prompted concern that the blaze will continue to spread, authorities said on Tuesday. At 98,000 acres (40,000 hectares), the so-called Rough Fire is the largest wildfire currently burning in California, …
It increasingly appears that weather systems over Asia are interlinked and feeling the effects of El Nino, global warming and local air pollution G B S N P Varma Despite intense floods in some parts of India, the monsoon rainfall across India through August 10 is only 91% of average …
Global warming does not cause the conflicts that have caused mass movement of people, but it would be wrong to say it does not contribute As I looked in on my own children sleeping safely last Thursday night before I went to bed, I did so with added poignancy as …
Researchers from Rice University have a new way of harvesting sunlight for energy, and it involves using light-activated gold nanoparticles. These absorb the light and transfer energy to excited electrons known as "hot electrons." Essentially, they have to capture the high-energy electrons before they cool. Scientists developed an artificial leaf …
BENGALURU: Variations in atmospheric moisture can influence winds blowing in the higher reaches of the atmosphere, according to a study by Indian Institute of Science (IISc) researchers. Winds circulating in the upper atmosphere, called Rossby waves, play a major role in the development of weather. One of the reasons why …
HYDERABAD: Extreme weather patterns due to climate change is likely see a spike in number of diarrheal as well as vector-borne diseases like Chikungunya, dengue and malaria, warned scientists and health experts at a workshop on 'impact of climate change on emergence of new diseases' in the city on Thursday. …
A drought can make a hot day hotter, while a heat wave can make dry conditions even drier. Now scientists are making the case that heat waves and droughts have become more likely to overlap throughout most of the United States. In fact, the longer and hotter the heat wave, …
