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Scientists have also been extensively studying Earth's oceans. (Photo: PTI/File)

Past climate change 'tipping points' can help us prepare for future: Study

The paper explores prior research with sediment cores in the Gulf of Alaska, dust records in North Africa and ice cores from Greenland

01 Aug 2021 1:06 PM

Curiously, mankind itself is feeling hapless as climate change seems to be taking its toll. Representational Image (Twitter)

AA Edit | Climate change hits home

The precariously fragile ecosystems of the Western Ghats have also been potentially disrupted by construction activity

26 Jul 2021 2:08 AM

A billboard with a photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is partially submerged in flood waters at Kolhapur in western Maharashtra on Saturday, July 24, 2021. Officials say landslides and flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rain have killed more than 100 people in western India. (AP)

India is on the frontline of climate change

In the first seven months of this year the nation has experienced two cyclones, a glacier collapse in the Himalayas, a heatwave and floods

25 Jul 2021 10:13 AM

The 10-year average rate of increase also set a record, now up to 2.4 parts per million per year. (Representational Photo:AFP)

Carbon dioxide levels hit 50% higher than preindustrial time

It has taken only 42 years, from 1979 to 2021, to increase carbon dioxide by that same amount

08 Jun 2021 12:18 AM

Modi called for “concrete action at a high speed, on large scale, and with a global scope” to combat climate change, adding he and US President Joe Biden are launching the “India-US Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 partnership” to help “mobilise investments, demonstrate clean technologies, and enable green collaborations”. — Representational image/PTI

Modi calls for quick action to save world

Modi said that humanity is battling a pandemic and tht it is a timely reminder that the grave threat of climate change has not disappeared

23 Apr 2021 8:03 AM

Using state-of-the-art space technologies, DMSat-1 will monitor, collect and analyse environmental data as well as measure air pollutants and greenhouse gases. (Image credit: Twitter/@MBRSpaceCentre)

Dubai to launch environmental nanometric satellite

The launch is part of a high-technology project undertaken to develop solutions to environmental challenges and address climate change

11 Mar 2021 10:56 AM

National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel clear debris after a portion of the Nanda Devi glacier snapped off, releasing water trapped behind it in Tapovan, Uttarakhand on Tuesday, February 9, 2021. (AP Photo)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Playing with God’s world: ‘Growth’ has a high price

It is also unclear to what extent the disaster is the outcome of over-exploitation of resources in the back-to-back construction of dams

10 Feb 2021 7:14 AM

Melting glaciers are the clearest signs of climate change, and since this event took place outside the monsoon period, it is safe to assume human intervention was a causative factor. (PTI /Arun Sharma)

AA Edit | An ecological tragedy of Himalayan proportions

It is obvious that lessons have not been learnt from years of having to deal with floods from the monsoon or melting glaciers

09 Feb 2021 7:24 AM

Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg (Image Source: AFP)

Greta Thunberg's generation most likely to believe climate change is a crisis: poll

70% of people under 18 believe climate change is a global emergency versus 58% of those over 60

27 Jan 2021 8:52 PM

While global temperatures are already up by 1ºC, the temperature rise in India indicates increasing heat waves. (Representational Image/AFP)

Meteorologists forecast heat waves for ensuing summer

India had been the 7th most affected by climate change globally in 2019, reveals the Global Climate Risk Index 2021 released on Monday

26 Jan 2021 4:08 AM

The Bobcat Fire burns on a hillside on September 15, 2020 in Monrovia, California. California's national forests remain closed due to wildfires which have already incinerated a record 2.5 million acres this year. The Bobcat Fire, burning in the San Gabriel Mountains, has grown to over 40,000 acres. (AFP)

Satellite data shows smoke from US fires has reached as far as Europe

Estimates show that the blazes have spewed out more than 30 million tonnes of carbon dioxide since mid-August this year

16 Sep 2020 3:49 PM

Members of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis gather for a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol on June 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. (AFP)

Climate battles are having their day in court

As lawsuits for climate go up, lawyers are getting creative — using new legal arguments to challenge companies and governments before court

03 Jul 2020 9:33 AM

Google said it will honour all existing contracts with its customers, but didn’t specify what companies. Greenpeace’s report says Microsoft appears to be leading the way with the most oil and contracts, offering AI capabilities in all phases of oil production. Amazon’s contracts are more focused on pipelines, shipping and fuel storage, according to the report. (Photo | Flicker)

Reminded of its climate change pledge, Google says it will stop building AI tools for oil extraction

Greenpeace report said Amazon, Microsoft, Google undermining their own climate pledges by partnering with Shell, BP, Chevron and ExxonMobil.

20 May 2020 7:45 PM

A woman stands next to an antenna at an NYU base camp at the Helheim glacier in Greenland. (AP)

Covid takes toll on weather and climate watch: UN

Data usually compiled by Global Observing System provides vital observations used for weather analyses, forecasts, advisories and warnings

07 May 2020 4:27 PM

Farmers work near a parched land on Monday in Palakkad, Kerala

Country’s highest daytime temperature recorded in Palakkad, Kerala

A climate scientist said that if the current trend is any indication, there are chances that 2020 would be the hottest year for Kerala

17 Feb 2020 2:28 PM

Normally, during the monsoon, the sea brings sand to the shore and takes it back later.

Karnataka’s coast & the ghats at risk: Climate change wreaks havoc

Karwar-based marine biologist Dr Prakash Mesta agrees that extreme and untimely heat is not good for marine life.

16 Feb 2020 5:17 AM

Participants will be enabled with complimentary licenses of Qlik Sense Business and publicly available data sets to design and execute their projects.

Qlik launches global Datathon challenge to develop solutions for climate resiliency

Qlik Academic Program and C40 cities invite students around the world to tackle climate change together.

12 Feb 2020 12:57 PM

For example, between 2010 and 2015, Pakistan was ravaged by severe flooding that caused deaths in the thousands, while also contaminating freshwater sources.

Put health on top of climate agenda

Increased frequency of extreme weather events also contributes to the disease burden.

22 Jan 2020 7:18 AM

Climate change is a living, dynamic and evolving threat that cannot be ignored.

With onset of climate change, securing needs of people vital

So far there is no indication that global temperature increase will be contained within one degree Celsius by 2050.

21 Jan 2020 4:34 AM

The Kerala floods in 2018 left over seven lakh people homeless and damaged property worth Rs 20,000 crore. Nearly 27,000 houses, 45,000 hectares of farmland and more than 90,000 km roads were destroyed in the floods.

Time to be the change

We have the power as individuals to change the larger narratives around us but we are part of the few privileged ones living in this manic world.

29 Dec 2019 12:00 AM

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