PARIS: Nearly 3.8 billion people could face extreme heat by 2050 and while tropical countries will bear the brunt cooler regions will also need to adapt, scientists said Monday.Demand for cooling will “drastically” increase in giant countries like Brazil, Indonesia and Nigeria, where hundreds of millions of people lack air conditioning or other means of…
A powerful winter storm tore through vast parts of the United States, dumping snow, sleet and freezing rain across multiple regions. Emergency declarations were issued in over 20 states as Arctic air followed the system, threatening prolonged disruption and dangerous cold. (Picture credit: AP) Source link
Pedestrians walk and ride their bike as heavy snow falls, Sunday (AP photo) Over 800,000 were left without power in the US amid a massive winter storm that threatened to paralyse eastern states with heavy snowfall. Over 10,000 flights have also been cancelled as of Sunday.Power outages mounted as the storm intensified. By 10:18 am…
A massive winter storm disrupted air travel across the United States on Sunday, triggering widespread flight cancellations and delays at some of the country’s busiest airports and setting up what airlines warned would be a brutal travel day.The National Weather Service said late Saturday that widespread snow, sleet and freezing rain threatened nearly 180 million…
NEW DELHI: The Centre has notified specific rules, laying down procedures for use of the Environmental (Protection) Fund for 11 activities, ranging from taking measures for prevention, control and mitigation of pollution to remediation of environmental damage at contaminated sites and research on clean technology.The fund was created out of the amount of penalties imposed…
Chile wildfires (Picture credit: PTI) SANTIAGO: Wildfires burning out of control in southern Chile have killed at least 15 people and forced more than 50,000 to evacuate, the government said Sunday.Security minister Luis Cordero gave the tolls for 14 blazes burning for two days now in the Nuble and Biobio regions about 500 kilometers (300…
Noida: National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday took suo motu cognisance of alleged water contamination in three states, including Uttar Pradesh, and sought replies from them as well as their pollution boards.The principal bench, comprising chairperson justice Prakash Shrivastava and expert member Dr A Senthil Vel, issued notices to the authorities concerned in UP, Rajasthan…
Scientists in Antarctica have inaugurated the world’s first global repository of mountain ice cores, aiming to preserve vital records of Earth’s atmospheric history as glaciers rapidly melt due to global warming.The frozen sanctuary was opened on Wednesday at the Concordia research station on the Antarctic Plateau by the Ice Memory Foundation, a consortium of European…
LONDON: UK police said a falling tree killed a man in England after record winds brought by Storm Goretti, and nearly 40,000 homes in France were still without power Saturday.Some 15 people have died in weather-related accidents this week across Europe as gale-force winds and storms caused travel mayhem, shut schools, and cut power to…
NEW DELHI: Microplastics could be impacting the oceans’ ability to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) which is critical for regulating Earth’s temperature, according to a research. ‘Biological carbon pumping’ is a natural process by which an ocean transfers carbon from the atmosphere into the deep sea layers. “Microplastics (MPs) interfere with this process by reducing phytoplankton…
Gurgaon: Citizens campaigning for the protection of Aravali hills on Sunday urged Centre to push for Unesco Biosphere Reserve status for it to “ensure long-term protection”.Aravalli Bachao Citizens Movement (ABCM) also called for a comprehensive plan to restore the entire 76,000 sq km landscape, instead of what they described as fragmented “definition-led” approaches tied to…
NEW DELHI: Delhi government will use nature-based solutions (NbS) to treat polluted water in different drains before it enters the Yamuna. NbS is an eco-friendly initiative for pollution abatement that treats raw sewage on-site. Under the initiative, approved by the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) last week, government will use rock filters, stone masonry…
New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) Vice Chairperson Kuljeet Singh Chahal on Sunday planted a sapling under the ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam’ campaign in Sarojini Vihar.After the event, Chahal told that locals have pledged to plant trees.“The ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam’ initiative has become a movement, a campaign. Our NDMC has taken on this…
A team of marine mammal experts had spent several days in Cowichan Bay, British Columbia, searching for a sea lion with an orange rope wrapped around its neck. As the sun set Dec 8, they were packing up, for good, when a call came in.The tangled animal, a female Steller sea lion weighing 330 pounds,…
Hyderabad: Behind the sweeping green promises of Telangana’s Vision 2047 lies an ambition that could reshape the state’s ecology — if bold targets are matched by realistic timelines and strong enforcement on the ground.The Vision 2047 document presents a wide-ranging environmental roadmap, placing water bodies, green buffers and ecosystem restoration at the centre of long-term…
Sri Lankan authorities on Sunday issued fresh landslide warnings as persistent rains battered regions already devastated by Cyclone Ditwah, intensifying what officials describe as the island’s worst natural disaster in decades. At least 618 people are reported dead, with many still missing as rescue teams struggle to reach isolated communities.A chain of tropical storms and…
Nashik: For the first time in 12 years, especially since the last Simhastha Kumbh Mela ended, Tapovan has been abuzz as Nashik residents carried out a series of activities to protest the proposed felling of about 1,700 trees to create space for Sadhugram. The proposal by the Nashik Municipal Corporation evoked a strong response from…
The spots gave it away. Just like a human fingerprint, the rosette pattern on each jaguar is unique so researchers knew they had a new animal on their hands after reviewing images captured by a remote camera in southern Arizona. The University of Arizona Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center says it’s the fifth big…
Screen grab (Source: X/@birdd111) In a counter-intuitive but urgent conservation push, drones and helicopters are releasing thousands of mosquitoes over Hawaii’s forests in an effort to rescue some of the islands’ most threatened birds. The operation is part of a large-scale bid to suppress invasive mosquito populations that are driving native Hawaiian honeycreepers towards extinction.In…
Hyderabad: A quiet cliff edge at a stone quarry in Yenakathala, Vikarabad, turned into an unexpected sanctuary after a birder’s alert about a Rock Eagle Owl nest prompted the Telangana forest department to halt quarrying operations for over a month.Birder Manoj Kumar Vittapu, joint secretary of the Telangana Photographic Society, visited the quarry on Sunday…
