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Climate change to intensify heatwave in India: Scientists

Environment News
Published on May 17, 2024 11:18 pm IST
A man takes shelter under an umbrella from the scorching sun on a hot summer afternoon in New Delhi (HT_PRINT)

India’s east coast cities faced unprecedented heat stress in April, shows study

IMD identifies heat stress in terms of heatwave conditions, which are declared based on specific temperature thresholds(AP photo)
Environment News
Published on May 16, 2024 09:15 pm IST

Weather Bee | Temperature alone cannot predict distress as monsoon approaches

A person splashes water on his face from an irrigation pipe to beat the intense heat wave in Lucknow. (File Photo/AP)
Environment News
Published on May 16, 2024 04:45 pm IST

Extreme heat in April made worse by climate crisis: Study

A woman splashes water on her face to get some respite from the scorching heat in Ahmedabad. (PTI Photo)
Environment News
Published on May 15, 2024 09:07 am IST

Summer 2023 was the hottest in past 2,000 years: Study

Women cover themselves to protect from the sun on a hot summer day(ANI)
Environment News
Published on May 14, 2024 09:04 pm IST

Science suggests multiple eco organs of Earth may be failing, says top scientist

Kenya is grappling with one of its worst floods in recent history, the latest in a string of weather catastrophes, following weeks of extreme rainfall scientists have linked to a changing climate. (Credit: AFP)
Environment News
Updated on May 13, 2024 09:01 pm IST

April 2024 warmest since 1940; eleventh month in a row that is warmest: Report

New Delhi: The month was 1.58°C warmer than the estimated April average in the 1850-1900, the pre-industrial reference period (HT Photo/Sanchit Khanna)
Environment News
Updated on May 08, 2024 06:11 pm IST

Earth observation data to drive $3 trillion in economic benefits by 2030: WEF

For representational purposes only. (AFP File Photo)
Environment News
Published on May 07, 2024 03:20 pm IST

Experts urge integration of climate resilience in urban development plans

This picture shows a flooded motorway in Dubai on April 20, 2024. Four people died after the heaviest rainfall on record in the oil-rich UAE on April 16, including two Filipino women who suffocated inside their vehicle in Dubai's flooding. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP)(AFP)
Environment News
Published on May 03, 2024 11:26 pm IST

Why Alphonso mango season ends early in Ratnagiri?

File: A vendor sells alphonso variety of mangoes, from Konkan region, at Crawford Market in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (Bhushan Koyande / HT Photo)
Environment News
Published on May 03, 2024 09:15 am IST

Climate change is slowing Earth’s rotation

Tidal forces, combined with the roiling currents in Earth’s core and the redistribution of ice sheets at its surface, cause the planet’s rate of spin to vary ever so slightly from year to year.(Pixabay)
Environment News
Published on May 03, 2024 08:00 am IST

Weather Bee | How unusual are forest fires in March and April?

A fire tears through a forest near Saterakhal village in Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand. (PTI)(HT_PRINT)
Environment News
Published on May 01, 2024 11:08 pm IST

Ultra fine emission inventory reveals top polluted hotspots in Mumbai

Mumbai, India - Sept. 19, 2020:High level of air pollution coming out from industries in Mahul, Chembur in Mumbai, India, on Monday, September 19, 2020. (Photo by Vijayanand Gupta/Hindustan Times) (Vijayanand Gupta/HT Photo)
Environment News
Updated on May 01, 2024 09:36 am IST

Deluge in Dubai highlights climate vulnerability and a lack of preparedness

Floodwater in Dubai. (AP)(HT_PRINT)
Environment News
Published on Apr 28, 2024 12:19 am IST

'Need for heat adaptation policies during elections': Former MoES secretary

Women shelter under an umbrella due to the heat as they leave a polling station after casting their vote, during the second phase of the general election in Mathura, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, India, April 26, 2024. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis(REUTERS)
Environment News
Published on Apr 26, 2024 09:08 pm IST

Rain may have become 10-40% heavier due to climate crisis in UAE, Oman: Study

Floodwater in Dubai. (AP)
Environment News
Updated on Apr 26, 2024 10:27 am IST

Spike in fossil fuel lobbyists at UN talks to cut plastic pollution: CIEL

Activist Dianne Peterson places a sign on a public art installation outside a United Nations conference on plastics on April 23 (AP)
Environment News
Updated on Apr 25, 2024 09:39 pm IST

Himalayan glacial lake outbursts are a growing threat to South Asia

A satellite image shows the Himalayan Glacial Lake after it burst its banks and caused flash floods, in South Lhonak Lake, Sikkim, India, October 6, 2023. (via REUTERS)
Environment News
Published on Apr 25, 2024 12:12 am IST

Weather Bee | Why did Australia's BOM declare the end of El Niño?

El Nino is a periodic warming of the equatorial Pacific Ocean. (Twitter)
Environment News
Published on Apr 24, 2024 11:35 pm IST

World Earth Day 2024: Google Doodle marks event with aerial views of planet

Google Doodle also shared a one-minute video showcasing the process of selecting nature images from around the globe to transform Google's logo for this Earth Day tribute.(Google Doodle)
Environment News
Published on Apr 22, 2024 07:09 am IST

Cause and Effect | Understanding the real threats of a civilisation collapse

Humans are experiencing vast shifts in their immediate environment, with the droughts in Africa, fires in much of North America and Canada, floods in Afghanistan, UAE and Pakistan, and heatwaves elsewhere also wreaking havoc across the world, irrespective of the stage of development a region is in. (Reuters)
Environment News
Published on Apr 20, 2024 09:21 pm IST

Plastic production threatens 1.5 degrees Celsius limit, new study warns

Greenhouse gas emissions during primary plastic production come from burning fossil fuels for heat and electricity.(PTI)
Environment News
Published on Apr 20, 2024 03:14 pm IST

Buildings are big GHG emitters; here’s how to decarbonise them

Noida: Buildings emit GHGs by using more fossil fuel-based electricity than solar energy, having inefficient designs, requiring artificial lighting even during the daytime, and using air-conditioned cooling (HT FILE PHOTO/SUNIL GHOSH)
Real Estate
Updated on Apr 18, 2024 10:12 pm IST

Climate disasters are economic disasters: UN secy-general Guterres

A Cuban tourist cools off at a water fountain in the Monumento a la Revolucion square during a heat wave that hit Mexico City on Tuesday. (AFP)
India News
Updated on Apr 18, 2024 04:16 am IST

India lost 2.33 million hectares of tree cover since 2000: Global Forest Watch

HT Image
Environment News
Published on Apr 12, 2024 09:18 pm IST

Report links H&M, Zara to environmental destruction in Brazil

A view of the logo of fashion retailer H&M on one of its branches in Copenhagen, Denmark.(Reuters)
Business
Published on Apr 12, 2024 07:58 am IST

Does the transplantation of trees really work?

Are there any laws protecting trees and do these laws detail the procedure of transplantation?. (HT File Photo)
Environment News
Published on Apr 11, 2024 10:51 pm IST

5 key impacts of Swiss women's climate victory at Europe's Human Rights Court

Members of Swiss association Senior Women for Climate Protection react after the announcement of decisions after a hearing of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to decide in three separate cases if states are doing enough in the face of global warming in rulings that could force them to do more, in Strasbourg, eastern France, on April 9, 2024. (Photo by Frederick FLORIN / AFP)(AFP)
Environment News
Published on Apr 11, 2024 07:04 pm IST

Weather Bee | Does the end of El Niño signal a lull in global temperatures?

There is reason to suggest that the end of the current El Niño cycle may not halt the warming seen in the past year in global temperatures, at least not immediately (File photo)
Environment News
Published on Apr 10, 2024 08:34 pm IST

Swiss seniors win big at court, emissions reduction targets for Europe set

Rosmarie Wydler-Walti and Anne Mahrer, of the Swiss elderly women group Senior Women for Climate Protection, attend the hearing of the court for the ruling in the climate case Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland, at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg,, France April 9, 2024. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann(REUTERS)
Environment News
Published on Apr 09, 2024 08:47 pm IST
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