PARIS: The punishing heat experienced around the Mediterranean in July would have been “virtually impossible” in a world without global warming, a group of climate scientists said Wednesday.A deadly heatwave brought temperatures well above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) to southern Europe and North Africa, where such extreme summer spells are becoming more frequent.Scorching heat … Read more
BATHINDA: The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, in collaboration with C-Voter, Tuesday released the Yale Climate Opinion Maps for India. This new online interactive tool provides the first-ever estimates of public responses to climate change in 34 of India’s 36 states and union territories, and in 604 districts, depicting the variation in global warming … Read more
The speed of Earth’s rotation, which determines the length of each day, is being altered by the impacts of human-induced climate change, a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has revealed. The research suggests that polar ice melt caused by global warming is changing the planet’s rotation and increasing … Read more
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said that they would be creating a record by planting over 36 crore saplings across the state. Addressing a mega plantation campaign, he reiterated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign of calling all countrymen to plant one tree in the name of Mother (ek ped maa ke … Read more
PARIS: The world experience an average of 26 more days of extreme heat over the last 12 months that would probably not have occurred without climate change, a report said on Tuesday.Heat is the leading cause of climate-related death and the report further points to the role of global warming in increasing the frequency and … Read more
PARIS: Will clouds help cool or warm our world in the years ahead? The EarthCARE satellite will soon blast off on a mission to find out, aiming to investigate what role clouds could play in the fight against climate change.The collaboration between the European Space Agency and Japan’s JAXA space agency is scheduled to launch … Read more
About 1.9 billion people around the world rely on glaciers and snow packs as a source of drinking water.As glaciers undergo a normal process of melting during the year’s warmer months, they steadily pour vast quantities of water into rivers, sustaining humans, industry, and ecosystems. But to be able to do this, glaciers have to … Read more
WASHINGTON: The broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years, a new study found. A study Tuesday in the journal Nature uses a well-established method and record of more than 10,000 tree rings to calculate summertime temperatures for each year since the year 1. No year came … Read more
PARIS: Struggle to wrap your head around daylight savings? Spare a thought for the world’s timekeepers, who are trying to work out how climate change is affecting Earth’s rotation – and in turn, how we keep track of time. In a strange twist, global warming could even help out timekeepers by delaying the need for … Read more
NEW DELHI: In an unprecedented turn of events, a new study reveals that the melting of polar ice, influenced by global warming, is altering Earth’s rotation and, consequently, how we measure time. This adjustment could lead to the world’s clocks losing a second within the next few years, a direct result of human activity.According to … Read more