Category: Environment

Scientists have projected that the world’s oceans are heating up faster than estimated. The ocean temperatures have set up a new record in 2018 and are damaging marine life. The world’s oceans cover nearly 70 per cent of the planet and are home to most of life on earth. The ocean nurtures both the microscopic…

The year 2018 was the fourth-warmest on record, extending a scorching streak driven by a build-up of man-made greenhouse gases, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said. Climate change is a variation in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that variation lasts for an extended period…

The recent International climate change negotiators at the Climate Summit in Poland announced that they have reached an agreement. The future path forward for countries is to reduce greenhouse gases and establish stronger transparency rules for countries to disclose their emissions. COP24 is the…

Amid impassioned pleas for progress, negotiators at the UN climate talks in Poland faced the final day with many issues’ undecided. Countries are struggling to complete the complex rulebook of the Paris climate agreement, and are under pressure to boost their promises to…

A NASA led study shows that glaciers in High Mountain Asia are moving slower and that the slow-moving glaciers have thinned the most over time. This could pose a threat to the future stability of the region. The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is the source of 10 major river systems that provide…

A Lancet Study says 26% of global premature death and disease burden by air pollution occurs in India. According to the study, India’s average life expectancy would be higher by 1.7 years if the air quality was at healthy levels. The Lancet began as an independent, international…

Greenhouse gas emissions worldwide are growing at an accelerating pace this year, researchers said Wednesday, putting the world on track to face some of the most severe consequences of global warming sooner than expected. A greenhouse gas can be defined as a gas that absorbs and emits radiant energy within the thermal…

The European Union says it is aiming to become the first major economy to go “climate neutral” by 2050, and has set out a plan to help its members make large cuts in emissions. The EU says the move will also cut premature air pollution deaths by 40%. Carbon neutrality, or climate neutrality, refers to…

A federal government report has warned that Climate change could cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars and result in the deaths every year by the end of the century unless there is a shift to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change refers to a variation that occurs in the Earth’s climate. It is…