State of the climate in Asia 2023
Asia remained the world’s most disaster-hit region from weather, climate and water-related hazards in 2023. Floods and storms caused the highest number of reported casualties and economic losses, whilst
Climate Change
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NO CHILD'S PLAY
This summer's El Ni
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The Antichrist
El Ni o takes birth in the Pacific periodically to upset weather patterns globally
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Disturbing aftermath
Life is thrown out of gear for wildlife as they face the wrath of El Ni o
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Heat on the Amazon
The fires in the Amazon rain forests are greater than the ones in Indonesia
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Multinational games
MNCs are looking for profits even in a disaster situation
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The Walker circulation
In the 1920s, Sir Gilbert Walker made the seminal connection between barometer readings of air pressure at sea level at stations on the eastern and western sides of the Pacific Ocean (Tahiti and
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The Walker effect
Change in the temperature of the sea affects wind patterns which affect weather globally
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Winds of change
El Ni o, a weather phenomenon caused by a complex interaction between atmospheric and oceanic conditions has ushered in drought, forest fires and devastation this year
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Satellite record buoys global warming claims
As nearly as climatologists can tell by studying measurements dating back to the 1850s, the earth's average surface temperature has risen by about one degree Fahrenheit over the last century. But
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Alaska natives provide personal testimony of the impacts of global warming
Decreased sea ice extent and thickness, the earlier onset of spring and influx of insects and other animals from the south are some of the changes which Alaska natives have identified in personal