Climate Change

People don’t need “climate emergency” or “global boiling” to make them worried. They’re already worried. Five years ago, when young people started skipping school on Fridays to protest rising carbon emissions, some climate advocates sensed a disconnect. The words commonly used to describe how fossil fuels were heating the planet — climate change, global warming …

Research shows that what you call climate change doesn’t matter much Read More »

84% of Indian districts are exposed to extreme heat wave and rising temperature Over 84 per cent of Indian districts are prone to extreme heat waves, of which 70 per cent of them are witnessing increased frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall events, according to a first-of-its-kind independent study released by the IPE-Global and Esri …

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Scientists have noticed a trend of very deep cloud systems developing over the southeast Arabian Sea. These systems intrude into the land and cause disasters. Very deep cloud systems are being formed due to the warming of the Arabian Sea and this is leading to extremely heavy rainfall in Kerala in a shorter period and increasing …

Wayanad landslides: How Arabian Sea warming is linked to Kerala’s disaster Read More »

Researchers with the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said Sunday was Earth’s hottest day. Then it happened again on Monday. Monday was most likely the hottest day ever recorded on Earth, with a global average of about 62.87 degrees Fahrenheit, or 17.15 degrees Celsius, preliminary data showed — beating a record that had been …

Planet Sets Record for Hottest Day Twice in a Row Read More »

The impacts of human-caused climate change are so overwhelming they’re actually messing with time, according to new research. Polar ice melt caused by global warming is changing the speed of Earth’s rotation and increasing the length of each day, in a trend set to accelerate over this century as humans continue to pump out planet-heating pollution, according to …

Climate change is messing with time more than previously thought, scientists find Read More »