Super El Niño Effect Hits Home: Bengal’s Villages Face Early Climate Breakdown
The first signs of the developing global Super El Niño are no longer confined to satellite maps over the Pacific Ocean.
The first signs of the developing global Super El Niño are no longer confined to satellite maps over the Pacific Ocean.
Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav, on Monday said that India will host the 1st International Big Cat Summit, on June 1 and 2, in New Delhi, inviting industry to play an active part in big cat conservation.
Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav on Tuesday announced the designation of Shekha Jheel Bird Sanctuary in Aligarh as a Ramsar site, taking India’s total to 99 and the state’s tally to 12.
In a warming world, forests are the quiet architecture of survival—and the Indian Forest Service its steadfast sentinel.
In the unfolding environmental history of the twenty–first century, few institutions operate as quietly yet as decisively as the Indian Forest Service (IFS).
Quoting a 2019 study published in the Environmental Health Perspectives, Dr. Tripathy said it indicated that heat waves increased the incidence of heart attacks and cardiac arrests, particularly among the older adults. “People over the age of 65 years are 3.5 times more likely to experience heat related cardiovascular events,” he said
According to information shared by the Dehradun Meteorological Department and a study report by the expert organisation Climate Trend, the duration and intensity of heatwaves have increased, while cold waves have declined during this period.
No other university had attempted a course of this kind — one that cuts across borders and disciplines to address a global challenge.
Voicing concern over the climate change causing frequent cloud bursts, he said the state government has prepared plans to strengthen infrastructure and environment protection.
The Ganges, a lifeline for hundreds of millions across South Asia, is drying at a rate scientists say is unprecedented in recorded history. Climate change, shifting monsoons, relentless extraction and damming are pushing the mighty river towards collapse, with consequences for food, water and livelihoods across the region.
