Global Warming

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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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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A record-breaking heatwave that hit the western United States and Canada at the end of June would have been “virtually impossible” without human-caused climate change, according to an analysis by a group of leading climate scientists. The…
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