‘Climate situation is alarming’
This year, India once again witnessed a very brief spring, with winter transitioning almost directly into summer.
This year, India once again witnessed a very brief spring, with winter transitioning almost directly into summer.
However, parts of northwest and central India may experience normal to below-normal maximum temperatures during this period, the weather office added.
Poverty and hunger share a tragic intertwined relationship, where each condition can both cause and perpetuate the other. Widespread poverty results in chronic and persistent hunger.
A new study finds the Himalayas are warming 50% faster than the global average since 1950, accelerating glacier loss, drying, and major climate risks for over a billion people.
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.
The state irrigation department, considering the drastic fall in groundwater levels, insisted districts like East Burdwan, Hooghly, Bankura, Jhargram, Nadia, West Midnapore to stress more on micro-irrigation and an instruction on this reached the district headquarters in the mid of January
Expressing concern over the changing environment, the head of the environmental sciences department at Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry in Nauni said it was harmful to both people and plants since "the latter cannot acclimatise to the sudden changes and that leads to sickness."
Water resources are essential for economic development. India has 4 per cent of global water resources for its use. India’s water resources are under immense pressure.
In addition, the year-to-year natural variability of SST is large in northern Japan so the global warming signal was less detectable than in southern Japan.
Aviation is currently one of the fastest-growing sources of the greenhouse gas emissions driving global climate change. With the expected passenger rise of 8.2 billion by 2025 and the expected industry revenues of $498 billion by 2022 there is a growing concern of increased share of air pollution resulting due to aircraft industry.
