Global climate change crisis: Mothers seek urgent action to create liveable future for their children
New Delhi: Developing countries pushes for rich countries to agree to a new global climate finance target
BY PTI / Saturday, 13 May, 2023
El Nino likely to return in July, may impact global weather
New Delhi: Mohapatra had said the weather office would issue an update on the southwest monsoon forecast towards the end of this month
BY PTI / Thursday, 4 May, 2023
90 percent of India, entire Delhi in ‘danger zone’ of heatwave impacts: Study
New Delhi: The high intensity of development in Central, East, West, and North-East districts can further elevate the HI risks through heat island formation
BY PTI / Thursday, 20 April, 2023
Centre tells States/UTs to take measures to mitigate effects of heat wave on workers, labourers
New Delhi: A heat wave over most parts of North East India, East and Central India and some part of Northwest India is causing above normal temperature for the season
BY NTN / Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
G7 ministers’ meeting: India asks rich nations to intensity emission cuts
New Delhi: India is home to 17 per cent of global population but accounts for only 4% of global carbon emissions while developed nations with the same population account for nearly 60% of carbon emissions
BY PTI / Saturday, 15 April, 2023
A cyclone-hit hamlet in Kerala pins its hopes on a sea wall
Kochi: Like many native dwellers of Chellanam, a fishing hamlet of 40,000 people in Kerala, Sebastian is living with fears of many weather events exacerbated by climate change: cyclones, surging seas, flooding and erosion
BY AP/PTI / Friday, 14 April, 2023
Along Kerala’s coastline, rising salinity means daily water struggle
Kochi: Although saltwater invasion of crucial groundwater supplies is a climate change problem around the world, richer nations can adapt more easily
BY AP/PTI / Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
Awaiting Centre nod to new action plan on climate change: Assam minister
Guwahati: Responding to a query by CPI(M) legislator Manoranjan Talukdar, Mahanta said the Assam State Action Plan on Climate Change 2021-30 had been approved by the state cabinet in July last year.
BY PTI / Friday, 31 March, 2023
Nagaland Soil & Water Conversation department observes World Meteorological Day
Kohima: The Director of the department said that the Day reminds us of the changing climate and educates the public on the important happenings in meteorology
BY NTN / Thursday, 23 March, 2023
Major Himalayan rivers like Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra will see their flows reduced as glaciers recede: UN Chief
United Nations: In Asia, 10 major rivers originate in the Himalaya region, supplying freshwater to 1.3 billion people living in its watershed
BY PTI / Thursday, 23 March, 2023
India must prioritise grants, policies around vulnerable population to mitigate climate change impact: IPCC authors
New Delhi: IPCC is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations charged with advancing scientific knowledge on climate change crisis
BY PTI / Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
