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Indian Ocean warming rapidly: MoES in Lok Sabha

Minister of earth sciences Jitendra Singh speaks in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. (Sansad TV)
Updated on Mar 19, 2025 08:37 pm IST

Get creative with Amla this winter with a delicious twist

Amla or Indian Gooseberry
Published on Nov 26, 2024 02:50 pm IST

Weather Bee| July's sudden warming surge leads to the warmest day globally on re

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A cyclist rides towards a thermometer that reads 45 degrees Celsius on a street of Seville on July 23, 2024. July 21, 2024 was the hottest day ever registered globally, according to preliminary data published on July 23, 2024 by the EU's climate monitor. The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said the global average surface air temperature on July 21 was 17.09 degrees Celsius, a fraction above the previous record set in 2023. (Photo by CRISTINA QUICLER / AFP)
Published on Jul 26, 2024 08:00 am IST

West needs to bear its climate funding duty

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This development undermines faith in the West’s commitment to meaningful efforts to limit the warming fallout (Representative file image)
Published on May 06, 2024 09:21 pm IST

Spring shorter in Delhi, flags climate study

Experts said that while every year is different, trends suggest higher warming in January-February. (Vipin Kumar/HT Photo)
Updated on Mar 19, 2024 05:56 am IST

February has broken unprecedented temperature records, data shows

A woman passes by a temperature marker that reads 45 degrees Celsius during a heat wave in San Lorenzo, Paraguay, on February 3, 2024. (AFP)
Updated on Feb 18, 2024 05:08 am IST

The alarming rise in ocean temperatures spells doom for coral ecosystems

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Reefs, complex creatures as it is, require a very specific environment to grow.
Updated on Feb 05, 2024 06:58 pm IST

Cause and Effect | 2024 may well break the 1.5°C-barrier for the full year

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Bathers cool off in a shower on Copacabana Beach during a heatwave in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in November.
Updated on Dec 28, 2023 11:09 am IST

Winter sea ice in the Antarctic hits record low: Data

The sea ice extent was 1.03 million square kilometers smaller than the previous record set in 1986. (REUTERS)
Updated on Sept 27, 2023 06:36 am IST

The coming years will be the hottest ever

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Optimists point out even if the 1.5°C threshold is breached in the coming half-decade, temperatures will likely fall back again, at least for a while.
Published on Aug 18, 2023 01:38 am IST

Cause and Effect | El Nino may make a bad situation worse

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El Nino is the warming of waters in the Pacific Ocean, which in India, leads to the monsoon being drier than usual.
Updated on May 27, 2023 06:56 pm IST

Earth Day – Future of planet discussed at seminar

For representation only (HT File Photo)
Updated on Apr 21, 2023 08:16 pm IST

Guest Column: Himachal set to become green energy powerhouse

In next four to five years with sustained efforts and right policies, Himachal should be able to generate more than 2,000 MW of solar power or in other words 3,000 to 4,000 MUs of electricity in next four to five years. (Himurja/HP government website)
Updated on Apr 03, 2023 01:28 pm IST

Study: Warming already baked in will blow past climate goals

The amount of baked-in global warming, from carbon pollution already in the air, is enough to blow past international agreed upon goals to limit climate change, a new study finds.
Updated on Feb 22, 2021 06:04 pm IST

Biomimicry Lab’s discovery could change building construction technology

Local communities can get local mud, ruminant faecal matter and green matter and use our students’ researched protein to construct their habitats, replacing cement with natural protein which could have a huge impact on reducing global warming.
Updated on Feb 10, 2021 12:26 am IST

Scientist who popularized term “global warming” dies

“We live in a climate system that can jump abruptly from one state to another,” Broecker told the Associated Press in 1997.
Updated on Feb 19, 2019 07:14 pm IST

Cli-fi: Climate change, global warming and the birth of a new genre

The term and the genre, Climate Fiction or Cli-Fi was officially coined in the late 2000s.
Updated on Nov 26, 2018 05:46 pm IST

Global warming is making rice unhealthy. Here’s why you should be worried

Here’s what’s making rice unhealthy.
Updated on May 24, 2018 01:05 pm IST

New method can be applied to predict impact of global warming on diseases

The metabolic theory of ecology can be used to predict how various biological processes respond to temperature.
Updated on Mar 25, 2018 01:46 pm IST