Study estimates 62 per cent risk of triggering climate tipping points under continued warmingA new study warns of a 62% risk of triggering climate tipping points like ice sheet collapse and coral reef death if current emission polic...
23 Apr, 2025, 03.35 PM IST
Great Barrier Reef ocean temperatures hit 400-year record: StudyRecent research revealed that the Great Barrier Reef has faced its highest water temperatures in 400 years due to climate change. Rising te...
07 Aug, 2024, 09.07 PM IST
Great Barrier Reef waters were hottest in 400 years over the past decade, study findsOcean temperatures in the Great Barrier Reef surged to a 400-year peak over the past decade, causing mass coral bleaching between 2016 and ...
07 Aug, 2024, 08.40 PM IST
This year 'virtually certain' to be warmest in 125,000 years, EU scientists sayThis year is "virtually certain" to be the warmest in 125,000 years, European Union scientists said on Wednesday, after data showed last mo...
08 Nov, 2023, 01.51 PM IST
This year 'virtually certain' to be warmest in 125,000 years, EU scientists sayLast month smashed through the previous October temperature record, from 2019, by a massive margin, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Serv...
08 Nov, 2023, 08.51 AM IST
Countries pledge to raise $12 billion to fund coral reef protectionAn alliance of nations called the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) has pledged to raise $12 billion to protect coral reefs from t...
04 Oct, 2023, 12.55 AM IST
Five major heatwaves in 30 years has turned the Great Barrier Reef into a bleached checkerboardThe Great Barrier Reef is comprised of more than 3,000 individual reefs stretching for 2,300 kilometres, and supports more than 60,000 jobs...
05 Nov, 2021, 11.20 AM IST
Great Barrier Reef in Australia lost more than half of its corals in 3 decadesThe scientists said the loss of these corals means a loss of habitat for interdependent species.
15 Oct, 2020, 04.56 PM IST
2016 was hottest year ever recorded: UN weather agencyRecord ocean heat contributed to widespread coral reef bleaching, including in the Great Barrier Reef, which has seen up to 50 per cent of ...
19 Jan, 2017, 11.19 AM IST
2016 was hottest year ever recorded: UN weather agencyThe world witnessed the hottest year on record in 2016, surpassing the exceptionally high temperatures of 2015, the UN weather agency said,...
19 Jan, 2017, 11.13 AM IST
Climate change threatens cultural heritage: UNThe Statue of Liberty, Uganda's gorilla forest, Stonehenge and Venice - the United Nations listed 31 protected sites threatened by sea leve...
26 May, 2016, 11.14 PM IST
Blowing bubbles through oceans may help protect coral reefsBlowing tiny bubbles through seawater may help protect coral reefs and oyster farms from acidified oceans, by transferring excess CO2 from ...
27 Mar, 2016, 03.08 PM IST
Blowing bubbles through oceans may help protect coral reefsBlowing tiny bubbles through seawater may help protect coral reefs and oyster farms from acidified oceans, by transferring excess carbon di...
27 Mar, 2016, 02.17 PM IST
India wants world to work with urgency on climate: PM Narendra ModiPM Narendra Modi said that India wants the world to work with urgency to agree on a comprehensive, equitable and durable agreement at the s...
30 Nov, 2015, 06.50 PM IST
Climate-damaging greenhouse gases reached new record high in 2013The shocking disclosure is part of the WMO's annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, released in Geneva.
09 Sep, 2014, 07.22 PM IST
- Greenhouse gas concentrations reach a record high: World Meteorological Organisation
World Meteorological Organisation, in a statement released on Tuesday revealed that the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reache...
20 Nov, 2012, 08.39 PM IST
- World fish stocks could be threatened by climate change: UN
A latest UN study claims that an ocean circulation system that allows fish stocks to replenish is under threat due to the rising temperatur...
24 Feb, 2008, 06.52 AM IST