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
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
The correspondence by Upadhyay is yet another addition to the hype that the Himalayan glaciers are melting and cause serious damage to the Himalayan eco-system. The entire interpretation is based on evidences that have been collected from places that are several kilometres away from the present-day snout of the glacier.
Melbourne: Australian birds have shrunk over the past century because of global warming, scientists have found. A similar shrinking effect was recently documented in Scottish sheep. Using museum specimens, researchers measured the size of eight bird species and discovered they were getting smaller in an apparent response to climate change.
Surrender or success? Kirit S Parikh / August 14, 2009, 0:40 IST
The Arctic ocean has given up tens of thousands more square kilometres of ice in a relentless summer of melt, with scientists watching through satellite eyes for a possible record low polar ice cap.
Tuktoyaktuk: The Arctic Ocean has given up tens of thousands more square kilometers of ice on Sunday in a relentless summer of melt, with scientists watching through satellite eyes for a possible record low polar ice cap.
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Surinder Sud / New Delhi August 11, 2009, 0:52 IST A series of ICAR studies on the impact of climate change can help farmers modify their cultivation patterns. That climate change and agriculture are interrelated is well known. Agriculture contributes, albeit only partly, to global warming
A "destructive" flood in Bangladesh could result in an influx of refugees streaming into India, triggering religious conflict, spread of contagious diseases and vast damage to infrastructure, an exercise conducted by a Premier US defence university has forecast.
New York: Environmental changes will pose profound strategic challenges to Washington in the coming decades, said a study by the Pentagon and intelligence agencies on the effect of global climate change and its impact on US military.
Without drastic cuts in emissions, the Transpolar Drift, one of the Arctic's most powerful currents and a key disperser of pollutants, is likely to disappear because of global warming.