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World Meteorological Day 2024: Date, history, significance

World Meteorological Day 2024: From date to significance, here's all that you need to know about the special day.

Every year, World Meteorological Day is observed on March 23.(Unsplash)
Published on Mar 22, 2024 02:28 PM IST
By, Delhi

Urban Agenda: Hill states move to check unregulated urban development (finally)

Nine hilly states that failed to take up the Centre's incentives for urban planning-informed development get their act together after recent climate disasters

A picturesque view of Shimla town after the fresh spell of snowfall on Thursday. (Deepak Sansta/HT)
Published on Feb 24, 2024 07:22 PM IST

NYC winter storm warning: Schools closed due to Nor'easter snow emergency

Several schools across the NYC area announced closure ahead of the Tuesday snowstorm. Nor'easter is expected to hit New Jersey, New York and Connecticut.

FILE PHOTO: A person makes her way through snow and wind during a Nor'easter storm in lower Manhattan in New York City, U.S., March 14, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo(REUTERS)
Published on Feb 13, 2024 05:40 PM IST

What India should be seeking from COP28

Delhi’s expectations from Dubai meet should be modest, but its intent for accelerating energy transition should be more ambitious.

Participating world leaders and delegates pose for a family photo during the COP28 United Nations climate summit in Dubai on December 1, 2023. (AFP)
Published on Dec 02, 2023 10:14 PM IST
ByShyam Saran

Scientifically Speaking | The heartache of climate change

The Earth's latest chapter has a new lexicon: Heat domes, Anthropocene, and... Solastalgia

The blistering temperatures that were witnessed all across the northern hemisphere were driven by multiple factors(Rahul Raut/HT file photo)
Published on Sep 20, 2023 10:07 AM IST
ByAnirban Mahapatra

Making multilateralism work for all constituents

India's G20 presidency is focused on strengthening multilateralism, including reforms within the UN, the Global South and multilateral development banks

India assumed the intergovernmental forum G20’s presidency in December. (PTI)
Published on Sep 05, 2023 09:51 PM IST

Twenty-five years on, “Titanic” feels like a prophecy

We are all Rose and Jack now

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in a still from Titanic.
Updated on Jul 10, 2023 12:24 AM IST
The Economist

An open letter: On wildfires and pollution

Canada is experiencing an unprecedented year of fires, with the smoke shrouding cities in the US and, over 2,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean, in parts of western Europe

The smoke cloud produced by the multiple wildfires ongoing in Canada’s Quebec is seen over the city of Vigo, northwestern Spain, on Monday. (AFP)
Updated on Jun 28, 2023 05:56 AM IST
ByBinayak Dasgupta

Biden eyeing climate emergency declaration, says envoy John Kerry: Report

The devastating heat - which has also hit Europe, causing hundreds of deaths there -- highlights the direct threat climate change poses to even the wealthiest countries on the planet.

US climate envoy, John Kerry.(REUTERS)
Published on Jul 24, 2022 09:34 PM IST
Written by Kanishka Singharia | Edited by Swati Bhasin

Melting glaciers: 'One day we will leave here'

Climate change is melting Himalayan glaciers on which hundreds of million people rely, flooding villages and leaving residents without drinking water.

A bridge in Hassanabad village in Pakistan collapsed due to flash floods created after a glacial lake outburst(Deutsche Welle/AFP/Getty Images)
Updated on Jul 19, 2022 02:21 PM IST
By, Delhi

Effect of a net-zero target for India’s energy transitions & climate policy

The study has been authored by Vaibhav Chaturvedi and Ankur Malyan

This study attempts to address this gap by modelling alternative peaking and net-zero-year scenarios for India, and highlighting its implications for transition in energy-intensive sectors.
Updated on Nov 01, 2021 12:44 PM IST
ByCouncil on Energy, Environment and Water

Ahead of CoP 26 meet: A Negotiation Strategy

The study has been authored by Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Former Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India and Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Social and Economic Progress. Utkarsh Patel, part-time Associate Fellow, Sustainability & Climate Change, at CSEP.

FILE PHOTO: People take part in a Climate March in Brussels, Belgium, ahead of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, October 10, 2021. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo(REUTERS)
Published on Oct 26, 2021 07:22 AM IST
ByCentre for Social and Economic Progress

Climate crisis: What can trees really do for us?

As the amount of carbon in the atmosphere rises, this eat-and-be-eaten cycle increases to keep up. Metabolically, trees are running just to stand still. In the course of all this cycling, forests are locking up the major part of the 33% of human-caused emissions removed from the atmosphere.

Forests are not nurtured, they have to fend for themselves. (File Photo)
Published on Oct 14, 2021 01:37 PM IST
PTI |

Climate change is killing the world's coral reefs: Study

A new study shows that corals are under siege from global warming, with 14% wiped out over a ten-year period.

Much of the loss was attributed to coral bleaching (David Bellwood/ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies/AP/picture alliance )
Published on Oct 05, 2021 10:57 AM IST
ByDeutsche Welle

World leaders call for cleaner, greener planet

The two-day summit is the second of its kind following the inaugural meeting held in Copenhagen in 2018, and is focused on public-private partnerships, especially in developing countries.

Representational: World leaders committed under the 2015 Paris accord to keeping the global temperature increase to under two degrees Celsius - and ideally closer to 1.5°C - by 2050. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Published on May 31, 2021 08:14 AM IST
AFP | , Seoul

Global average temperature could pass 1.5° Celsius within the next 5 years

Last year tied with 2016 for the warmest on record, with temperatures 1.2°C above pre-industrial times. The past seven years have been the warmest seven ever recorded, a sign that climate change is accelerating.

Average temperatures are likely to be at least 1°C warmer in each of the coming five years
Published on May 27, 2021 07:47 AM IST
Bloomberg |

Greta Thunberg aims to change how food is produced

In a video posted on Twitter on Saturday, Thunberg said the environmental impact of farming as well as disease outbreaks such as Covid-19, which is believed to have originated from animals, would be reduced by changing how food was produced.

Greta Thunberg said the spillover of diseases from animals to humans was caused by farming methods, adding that a move to a plant-based diet could save up to 8 billion tonnes of CO2 each year.(Bloomberg)
Published on May 23, 2021 12:42 PM IST
Reuters | | Posted by Prashasti Singh, Stockholm

PM Modi accepts Joe Biden's invitation to attend climate summit: MEA

"Prime Minister Modi welcomed President Biden's initiative and accepted the invitation," MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said.

PM Modi will attend the Leaders' Summit on Climate and the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate.(AP)
Updated on Apr 03, 2021 10:24 AM IST
Written by Prashasti Singh, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

Pope, using Shakespeare, makes climate change appeal

"I suggest we adapt Hamlet's famous 'to be or not to be' and affirm: 'To see or not to see, that is the question!' Where it starts is with each one's seeing, yes, mine and yours," Pope Francis wrote.

Pope Francis went on to urge people to work together to protect
Published on Mar 30, 2021 06:50 PM IST
Reuters | , Vatican City

EU's top court rejects effort to force tougher climate rules

Families from Kenya, Fiji, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal and Romania and the Swedish Sami Youth organization launched the legal action in 2018.

Experts say ending the use of fossil fuels is one of the most important measures needed to limit global warming, believed to be causing heavier storms, fiercer droughts and other weather problems damaging lives and livelihoods around the world. (Representative Image)(AP)
Published on Mar 25, 2021 05:36 PM IST
AP |

Deadly heat waves will become more common in South Asia, say scientists

According to the research, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, with two degrees of warming, the population's exposure to lethal temperatures rises by close to three times as compared to recent years.

Several other parts of northwest India also continued to record severe heat wave conditions on Wednesday.(Rahul Raut/HT PHOTO)
Published on Mar 25, 2021 01:05 PM IST
PTI |

China to cut carbon emissions per economic unit of output by 18% in five years

Many are waiting to see whether the government will unveil more detailed regulations on carbon-intense industries such as steel and cement manufacturing later this year.

On a smoggy day in Beijing, Premier Li Keqiang said the country will reduce carbon emissions per unit of economic output by 18% over the next five years. (Representative Image)(Unsplash)
Published on Mar 05, 2021 04:58 PM IST
AP |

Europe seeks stronger protection for economy from 'extreme weather events'

Extreme weather events, such as forest fires and heatwaves in the Arctic Circle, droughts in the south and flooding and forest loss in central and eastern Europe, are already having far-reaching effects on the European economy.

European Commission is calling for efforts such as better use of climate-risk data, smarter damage prevention and increased insurance coverage. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)(AP)
Published on Feb 24, 2021 05:14 PM IST
Bloomberg |

Two-thirds of world see 'climate emergency': UN survey

The findings suggest the grassroots global climate movement that surged onto the world stage in 2019 -- led, in part, by a then 16-year Greta Thunberg of Sweden -- is still gaining momentum, even if a raging pandemic has obscured its scope.

The survey results reinforce recent studies suggesting that some countries, and perhaps global society, could be approaching a virtuous
Published on Jan 27, 2021 01:08 PM IST
AFP |

UN secretary urges world leaders to declare states of ‘climate emergency’

Guterres said that economic recovery packages launched in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic represented an opportunity to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon future - but warned this was not happening fast enough.

United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres.(Reuters File Photo)
Updated on Dec 12, 2020 08:17 PM IST
London | ByReuters | Posted by Srivatsan K C

Greta Thunberg warns of fallouts from climate change in powerful documentary trailer that gives goosebumps

Sweden’s teen climate change activist, Greta Thunberg’s documentary trailer grabs over 1.3 million views, makes hair stand on the ends with climate emergency warnings ahead of cinematic release worldwide starting October 16

Greta Thunberg’s documentary trailer will surely give you goosebumps(YouTube/Hulu)
Updated on Sep 13, 2020 12:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | ByZarafshan Shiraz

‘Climate emergency’ Oxford word of year

According to Oxford, there was a rapid rise of ‘climate emergency’ from “relative obscurity” to becoming one of the most prominently debated terms of 2019, increasing its usage by 100 times in a year.

Oxford dictionary pointed out that ‘climate emergency’ had “surpassed” in usage all other types of emergencies by a huge margin.(Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Updated on Nov 22, 2019 05:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Over 11,000 scientists around the world declare climate emergency

More than 11,000 experts from around the world are calling for a critical addition to the main strategy of dumping fossil fuels for renewable energy: there needs to be far fewer humans on the planet.

More than 11,000 experts from around the world are calling for a critical addition to the main strategy of dumping fossil fuels for renewable energy: there needs to be far fewer humans on the planet.(Arvind Yadav/HT PHOTO)
Updated on Nov 06, 2019 07:25 AM IST
Bloomberg | ByEric Roston
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