Santa’s village swelters: Even travelling to the Arctic Circle won't save you from a heatwaveRovaniemi, Finland, witnessed a record-breaking 30°C, highlighting climate change's impact in the Arctic. Across Europe, the intense heatwa...
16 Jul, 2025, 09.18 PM IST
Arctic contains 'giant mercury bomb'? How it may impact food?Melting arctic permafrost may impact food system by releasing mercury in water. Here's what report has said.
19 Aug, 2024, 07.17 PM IST
Climate change makes wildfires and smoke worse. Scientists think it's the 'new abnormal'Climate change is causing an increase in wildfires and smoke, which is impacting more areas than ever before. The term "new abnormal" is be...
03 Jul, 2023, 05.40 PM IST
Climate change keeps making wildfires and smoke worse. Scientists call it the 'new abnormal'As Earth's climate continues to change from heat-trapping gases spewed into the air, ever fewer people are out of reach from the billowing ...
01 Jul, 2023, 12.28 PM IST
Europe is world's fastest warming continent: climate report19 Jun, 2023, 09.14 PM IST
Europe is world's fastest warming continent: Climate reportCrop-withering drought, record sea-surface temperatures and unprecedented glacier melt are among the consequences laid out in a report by t...
19 Jun, 2023, 05.09 PM IST
With eyes on Russia, US military prepares for an Arctic futureThe first-of-its-kind exercise this month, involving some 8,000 troops outside of Fairbanks, was planned long before Russia’s invasion of U...
28 Mar, 2022, 01.35 PM IST
Arctic ice hits its minimum for the year: What's driving the overall decline?In recent years, Arctic sea ice levels have been at their lowest since at least 1850 for the annual mean and in at least 1,000 years for la...
24 Sep, 2021, 01.38 PM IST
Arctic ice melt doesn't boost sea levels, so do we care?The trend line is clear: sea ice extent has diminished 14 percent per decade over that period. The Arctic could see it's first ice-free sum...
22 Sep, 2020, 08.20 AM IST
Ask The Travel Expert: What is the ideal time to go on a trip to Europe?When in Europe, don't forget to visit Paris, London, Amsterdam and Frankfurt.
24 Oct, 2019, 05.15 AM IST
- Sea levels could rise further on back of climate change: IPCC
Canberra, July 18 (IANS) Human-induced climate change has the power to cause a significant rise in sea levels over the next 100 years, a sc...
18 Jul, 2017, 01.22 PM IST
- Arctic winter warming events becoming more frequent
Washington, July 12 (IANS) Arctic winter warming events -- winter days when temperatures peak above minus 10 degrees Celsius -- are becomin...
12 Jul, 2017, 11.42 AM IST
2016 was warmest year on record: Study2016 was the warmest year on record, with global average temperature 0.2 degrees celsius higher than 2015, the European Union’s Copernicus ...
06 Jan, 2017, 02.09 PM IST
Customised weather forecast of tourist destinations soon: Harsh VardhanIMD would also start providing weather forecast at 6,000 block levels, expanding from 660 districts as of now, to make forecast more accura...
19 Sep, 2016, 11.12 PM IST
World braves one of the worst summers; May temperature second hottest since 1880In India, there is a looming possibility of El Nino dulling the monsoon rains in July-August. The March-May period for the US has been the ...
04 Jul, 2012, 12.48 PM IST
- Polar Magnets: Up close with polar bears
Preeti Verma Lal can’t get over the stunning experience of getting up close (if not personal) with gambolling polar bears in Churchill, Man...
24 Nov, 2011, 07.41 AM IST
- 2010, 2005 tied as warmest years on record, says US
In a clear indication of global warming manifesting in extreme weather conditions - recall the heat wave in Moscow and the floods in Pakist...
14 Jan, 2011, 03.24 AM IST