Climate change made 2011-2020 decade wetter and warmer for India: WMOThe WMO, a specialised agency of the United Nations that covers weather, climate and water resources, said it was a "wet decade" over north...
05 Dec, 2023, 01.42 PM IST
2022 fifth or sixth warmest year on record: WMOThe global mean temperature in 2022 was 1.15 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial (1850-1900) average, making it the "fifth or sixth" w...
21 Apr, 2023, 07.51 PM IST
The cost of extreme temperatures for IndiaIndia experienced a sharp rise in heat wave days in 2022, recording the highest number of such days in a decade, according to the Ministry ...
08 Apr, 2023, 07.28 AM IST
2015 to 2022 likely to be 8 warmest years on record: WMO reportThe report titled 'WMO Provisional State of the Global Climate 2022' released at the 27th Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC on Sunday sta...
06 Nov, 2022, 06.07 PM IST
Premature to attribute extreme heat in India to climate change but heatwaves more intense: WMOExtreme heat is gripping large parts of India and Pakistan, impacting hundreds of millions of people in one of the most densely populated p...
30 Apr, 2022, 03.24 PM IST
Climate change behind weather’s extreme mood swings in IndiaExperts say past decade’s trend of intense bursts of rainfall caused by global warming to continue.
03 Jul, 2019, 10.29 AM IST
Oceans warming faster than previously thoughtOcean heating is critical marker of climate change because an estimated 93 per cent of the excess solar energy trapped by greenhouse gases ...
13 Jan, 2019, 12.44 PM IST
Oceans warming much faster than previously thought: StudyOcean heating is a critical marker of climate change because an estimated 93% of the excess solar energy trapped by greenhouse gases accumu...
11 Jan, 2019, 11.53 AM IST
UN climate conference begins; India to showcase 'Yoga' as sustainable lifestyle mantraUnited Nations climate change conference to prepare a rule book to implement Paris Agreement began in Bonn on Monday with India asking for ...
07 Nov, 2017, 03.50 PM IST
India's killer heatwaves claim 4620 lives in last four yearsAccording to the Ministry of Earth Sciences, in 2016, nearly 1,600 people died due to erratic weather conditions, of which 557 casualties w...
23 Apr, 2017, 07.55 PM IST
Sales of AC, Fridge, Cola rise in Oct-Dec qtr due to warm winterales of soft drinks, ice-cream, airconditioners and refrigerators shot up in the October-December quarter after posting low- to mid-single-...
11 Feb, 2016, 04.00 AM IST
Obamas send new year greetings to President Pranab Mukherjee, card includes pets' paw printsThe greeting card contains signatures of President Obama, his wife Michelle and their two daughters Malia and Sasha.
28 Dec, 2015, 07.58 PM IST
- 2014 on course to be hottest year ever recorded
In another chilling reminder that the Earth is heating up, data just released shows 2014 is on course to be the hottest year since global r...
01 Dec, 2014, 03.41 AM IST
- World weather body warns of extreme weather due to climate change
Just a week ahead of the release of a crucial report of a UN panel on impact of climate change on food, water and other resources, the Worl...
25 Mar, 2014, 06.54 AM IST
No El Nino, yet 2013 fourth warmest year: US climate agencyLast year, 2013, was tied with 2003 as the fourth warmest year since records began in 1880, according to the US government's National Ocean...
22 Jan, 2014, 01.38 PM IST
US suffered $7 billion losses due to climate disasters in 2013There were also few tornado outbreaks in 2013 with the two most active days coming in late January and mid-November.
16 Jan, 2014, 02.57 PM IST
2013 one of warmest years on record: World Meteorological OrganizationThe first nine months, January to September, tied with 2003 as the seventh warmest such period on record, with a global land and ocean surf...
14 Nov, 2013, 05.18 PM IST