global warming

Explained | How does a cyclone affect the monsoon’s onset?

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Once seen as a very reliable system, the monsoon trough is now being kicked around in a game of climate-change football.

Raghu Murtugudde

This World Oceans Day, we look at how Pune’s Zerocircle is crafting bio-soluble packaging from seaweed

UN climate chief calls fossil fuel phase out key to curbing warming but may not be on talks’ agenda

Review of Vinod Thomas’s Risk and Resilience in the Era of Climate Change: Notes on averting a climate disaster

G. Ananthakrishnan

Explained | Why is the 1.5 degree Celsius target critical?

Akriti Sharma,Rashmi Ramesh

A view of the waters off the Antarctic landmass, April 28, 2018.

Deep ocean currents in Antarctica are slowing earlier than predicted

The week in 5 charts | PM unveils new Parliament, global warming set to break 1.5º C limit, EU slaps fine on Facebook, and more

Carbon removal industry challenges findings of skeptical UN body

Tourists arrive in large numbers at Koksar Snow Point, in Lahaul and Spiti on May 21, 2023.

Shrinking snow cover continues to haunt Himachal Pradesh

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A mother and child try to protect themselves from the scorching heat in Kalaburagi.

Explained | Global warming will likely soon cross 1.5º C. What will it mean for India?

Raghu Murtugudde

A flare burns natural gas at an oil well in Watford City, N.D. The federal agency that regulates pipelines on Friday, May 5 announced new rules aimed at reducing leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from a network of nearly 3 million miles of natural gas pipelines that crisscross the country.

Only around 13% of global methane emissions regulated: Study

An illustration of European perch (Perca fluviatilis), c. 1879.

Study says cold-blooded animals grow larger, not smaller, in warmer waters

D.V.L.S. Pranathi

Warming warning: On the World Meteorological Organization projections for temperature trends

Congress leader Randeep Surjewala addresses the media outside the residence of party President Mallikarjun Kharge in New Delhi on May 17, 2023.

Top news of the day: Congress continues to huddle over Karnataka CM candidate; planned Army withdrawal from J&K shelved ‘indefinitely’, and more

The Hindu Bureau

The World Meteorological Organization update provides more of a prediction-based long-range weather forecast. Image for representation purpose only.

Global warming now more likely to breach 1.5°C threshold by 2027, scientists warn

A view of Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 23, 2019.

Jakarta, world’s fastest-sinking, fights to raise itself

Farmers survey a dry well, once a major irrigation source, in Fatehpur village of Patiala district in Punjab. File

Groundwater exploitation is silently sinking the ground beneath India’s feet

Union ministries of power and environment, forests & climate change will develop a carbon credit trading scheme for decarbonisation.

Power, environment ministries to develop carbon credit trading scheme for decarbonisation

Glaciologists have found the grounding line of Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland to shift substantially during tidal cycles, allowing warm seawater to intrude and melt ice at an accelerated rate.

Grounding line of Greenland's glacier found to shift during ocean's tidal cycles

India experienced 596 major AR events from 1951 - 2020, a new study found.

Atmospheric rivers caused 70% of India's floods between 1985 and 2020: Study

Grey grasshopper sitting on a green leaf

A warmer planet, less nutritious plants and … fewer grasshoppers?

On April 14, 16 and 17 this year, Kolkata’s maximum temperature crossed the 40°C mark.

Data | Kolkata records hottest April, east and north-east sizzle

Rebecca Rose Varghese,Vignesh Radhakrishnan

Electric vehicles charging at a station in Monterey Park, California. (Image used for representation)

Explainer | How U.S. President Joe Biden is pushing a switch to electric vehicles in the U.S.

Priyali Prakash

Thermal stress poses a serious threat to sustainable livestock farming