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
On Tuesday, Bhutan and India discussed the possibility of developing crops resistant to climate change, to keep agriculture apace with warmer global conditions.
M R Bhutiyani
With increasing concerns about climate change, the need to understand the nature and variability of monsoon climatic conditions and to evaluate possible future changes becomes increasingly important. This paper deals with the changes in frequency and magnitudes of extreme monsoon rainfall deficiency and excess in India from 1871 to 2005.
Speakers at a discussion yesterday said as the frequency and magnitude of natural disasters has been increasing rapidly in coastal belt due to climate change impacts, the government should take specific steps to protect some 3.48 crore people in the areas. People living in the coastal belts are becoming more vulnerable day by day, they added.
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar yesterday said global warming would have an adverse impact on India
Across the United States, researchers are firing up experiments to determine how rising temperatures could reshape the nation's forests. The studies encompass the pines and maples of eastern forests in Massachusetts and North Carolina, the spruce and fir of northern Minnesota, and the alpine tundra ecosystem above the treeline in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.
Studies have been undertaken from time to time by the Government to assess the impact of climate change on water resources.
Washington: The United States released more than a thousand intelligence images of Arctic ice to help scientists study the impact of climate change, within hours of a recommendation by the National Academy of Sciences.
Admitting that there are some "knowledgeable gaps" when it comes to the issue of climate change and its effect on ecosystem including marine ecosystem, earth sciences minister Prithviraj Chavan, clarified that country's development cannot be capped in the name of reducing greenhouse gases.
Lake ecosystem productivity, defined by the rate of biomass synthesis, is believed to be limited by nutrient availability.