Flooding is common during India’s monsoon season but climate change is making the monsoon stronger, according to a report from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research / © AFP/File Swathes of India are battling deadly floods and landslides after heavy monsoon rains, just the latest example of how the vast country is on the …
File photo of pollution over Delhi(Rajesh Mehta / BCCL, Delhi) Much ahead of the air pollution season in northwest India, especially in Delhi-NCR, scientists have come up with a Decision Support System (DSS) that will not just help zero in on the exact sources contributing to Delhi’s pollution, but also predict practical scenarios in winters. …
Scientists from IITM Pune Develop New Model to Tackle Air Pollution Menace in Delhi-NCR Read More »
Thanks to climate change, the Earth’s atmosphere now holds more moisture than in decades past, which is, in part, leading to more frequent extreme rainfall events, experts say. The last few weeks alone have provided ample evidence to back up that assertion. Up to 7 inches of rain fell on parts of Germany over a …
From Detroit to Germany to Mumbai, climate change is worsening torrential downpours Read More »
Earlier this year, a study showed that the rainforest in Brazil released about 20% more CO2 into the atmosphere than it took in over the period from 2010-2019. This new paper underlines that change and finds that some regions of the rainforest were “a steadily increasing source” of carbon between 2010 and 2018. A source of carbon …
Climate change: Amazon regions emit more carbon than they absorb Read More »
Climate change is such an intertwined and complex phenomenon that it cannot be fixed by fixing just one faultline. Primarily, mankind must stop overheating the Earth as it otherwise has terrible ramifications. Climate change has begun to dent the Earth’s atmosphere and it is showing. NASA scientists have now studied and mapped the mesosphere (a …
NASA satellites find upper atmosphere cooling and contracting due to climate change Read More »
