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Something is thawing beneath Alaska — and the price tag could be $43 trillionAlaska's tundra holds immense frozen carbon stores which are thawing. This thaw releases greenhouse gases, potentially causing significant ...- Can thickening Arctic ice with seawater slow its decline? Successful trial faces major hurdlesScientists tested a method to thicken Arctic sea ice by pumping seawater. This process created a thicker and more reflective ice layer duri...
- Is the Ground Beneath Us Releasing More Carbon Than We Think?Beneath American soil, vast carbon reserves are stored. These underground stores, built over centuries and millennia, are now a focus for s...
- New Maps Show Why Some Land Slowly Sinks Over TimeThe ground beneath us is sinking, a phenomenon called land subsidence, revealed by advanced satellite mapping. This slow, often invisible m...
- Nagaland University-led research assesses stability of high altitude lakes in Sikkim & ArunachalNagaland University is leading a research project. It focuses on high-altitude lakes in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh. The project assesses ...
- ‘Earth is warming at its fastest pace in 10,000 years — business leaders must heed the Anthropocene’The 25th ET Awards for Corporate Excellence featured a special address by Mrs Meera Jain. She highlighted the pressing need to address clim...
- Greenland Landslide: Earth shook for 9 days after melting glacier causes massive landslide, 650-foot mega tsunamiGreenland Landslide: A massive landslide in Greenland in September 2023 triggered a 200-meter-high tsunami, resulting in a mysterious nine-...
- What caused devastating rains in Himachal Pradesh?As the state is reeling under the monsoon fury, there are emerging concerns that such rains could become a common phenomenon in the years t...
- Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees not plausible: ReportThe researchers concluded that social change is essential to meeting the temperature goals set in Paris. But what has been achieved to date...
- Scientists awakened 50,000-year-old zombie virus in Siberian permafrost. Read hereDeep below in Siberia's permafrost, scientists found 13 ancient zombie viruses preserved in the ice. Read here for all details.
- How to teach children about climate change, inspire hope and take action to change the futureWhen young people perceive that adults are not taking substantial action on climate change and when their voices go unheard, these experien...
- Uttarakhand: Massive rockslide melted ice and triggered Chamoli flood, says new reportThe findings, released on Friday, said the energy of the fall of about 22 million cubic metres of rock mixed with ice and snow “remobilised...
- View: What can India do to prevent Uttarakhand-type disastersWith dozens still missing, one question stares at us: what can countries like India do, given that glacier melts and weather variability ar...
- Putin has signed climate pact, but is warming up to melting of ArcticVladimir Putin signed the Paris Accord on climate change this year. But as the Barents Sea and the Arctic thaw faster, Russia is gearing up...
- 3-5°C temperature rise is now ‘locked-in’ for the ArcticEven if the world were to cut emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, winter temperatures in the Arctic would rise 3-5°C by 2050 and 5-...
- Earth heading towards irreversible 'hothouse' state: StudyAccording to the researchers, keeping global warming to within 1.5-2 degrees Celsius may be more difficult than previously assessed.
- NASA to undertake globe-spanning research campaignsNASA is sending scientists around the world this year - from the edge of the Greenland ice sheet to the coral reefs of the South Pacific - ...
- UN panel on climate change presents gloomy picture for Asia in its fresh reportBoth India and China will have to see "negative impacts on aggregate wheat yields", impacting overall food security in the continent, a UN ...
- Small group of US experts insist global warming not man-madeA small group of US experts stubbornly insist that, contrary to what the vast majority of their colleagues believe, humans may not be respo...
- UN panel set to publish landmark report on climate threatThe world's top scientific authority on climate change was set to adopt a landmark report on Saturday that warns that the impacts of global...
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