Climate Change

The Middle East is heating at nearly twice the global average, threatening potentially devastating impacts on its people and economies, a new climate study shows. Barring swift policy changes, its more than 400 million people face extreme…
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In the heart of a forest in central Massachusetts, one can locate a typical red oak tree. Its only distinguishing characteristic, aside from its old age, is that it tweets information about climate change. The 87-foot Northern Red Oak tree…
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The January eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano offered scientists. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to investigate how the atmosphere functions, unlocking secrets to better anticipate the weather and changing climate. The…
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After a gap of nearly two-and-a-half years, Swiss ski resort town Davos is set to host the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting yet again. With a host of global leaders including from India expected to deliberate over the Ukraine crisis,…
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Many mountainous communities are at risk from cascading disasters of the type witnessed recently at the Nanda Devi glacier in Uttarakhand. They live within multi-hazard risk hotspots characterised by ecological fragility, active seismicity,…
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The tipping point for irreversible global warming may have already been triggered, the scientist who led the biggest-ever expedition to the Arctic warned. "The disappearance of summer sea ice in the Arctic is one of the first landmines in…
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Climate change may be sparking more lightning across the world, and there is an increasing scientific evidence pointing to the trend. The rise in incidences and intenstity of lightning strikes in Brazil could be due to global warming and…
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The European Union is set to take the lead in climate policy action among the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters this week, with a raft of ambitious plans designed to cut emissions drastically over the next decade. The policies, if…
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More than a third of summer heat-related fatalities are due to climate change, researchers said , warning of even higher death tolls as global temperatures climb. Previous research on how climate change affects human health has mostly…
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Nearly 740,000 access deaths in India annually can be attributed to abnormal hot and cold temperatures related to climate change, according to a study published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal. An international team, led by…
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