State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
Sea Level Rise
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Hawaii’s Waikiki Beach 'could soon be underwater' because of rising sea levels caused by climate change
Hawaii’s Waikiki Beach - celebrated around the world for its both it eye-grabbing beauty and decades-old surf culture - could be under water in a matter of years as as result of rising sea levels triggered
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Development-bank climate funds seek new dollars, as competition heats up
Ministers from more than 30 developing countries on Monday urged wealthy nations to top up a set of climate funds that channel money to international development banks, in a year when competition for limited
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Melting glaciers contribute a third of sea-level rise
Last January, a study in Nature Climate Change showed the world's glaciers are the smallest they've been in human history, revealing radiocarbon material that hasn't been exposed for 40,000 years. Now,
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UN report: Extreme weather hit 62 million people in 2018
The United Nations' weather agency says extreme weather last year hit 62 million people worldwide and forced 2 million people to relocate, as man-made climate change worsened. The World Meteorological
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Storm-slammed Mozambique must rebuild for 'tomorrow's climate'
The destruction wrought by Cyclone Idai in southern Africa this month shows weather warnings must spur action and infrastructure has to be built with climate risks in mind if people are to be kept safe
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PNG politicians push coal as Pacific islanders rail against climate change
Politicians in Papua New Guinea have thrown their support behind a plan to power the country’s development through coal. The plan to establish coal mines and power plants gained prominence following
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Global linkages: a graphic look at the changing Arctic
Sharp and potentially devastating temperature rises of 3C to 5C in the Arctic are now inevitable even if the world succeeds in cutting greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris agreement, research
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Rating resilience: factoring climate resilience into infrastructure risk metrics
This paper proposes a framework for defining risk metrics to capture climate resilience in infrastructure assets. It first outlines the risks that infrastructure is exposed to under a future of climate
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Rating resilience: factoring climate resilience into infrastructure risk metrics
This paper proposes a framework for defining risk metrics to capture climate resilience in infrastructure assets. It first outlines the risks that infrastructure is exposed to under a future of climate
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Solid Earth change and the evolution of the Antarctic ice sheet
<p>Recent studies suggest that Antarctica has the potential to contribute up to ~15 m of sea-level rise over the next few centuries.<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Antarctic_icesheet_evolution.pdf"