Tag Archives: Climate change

Dr. Seema Javed  Heavy monsoon rain and water from the upstream of India’s northeast have resulted in frequent floods recently, across the border in India Bangladesh, while leaving millions of people stranded and generating a humanitarian disaster. Climate scientists and water management experts at home and abroad see a significant …

Sariska forest reserve is not prone to fire yet a massive fire broke out in the forest area of Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan’s Alwar district on 29th March. Which effected the Tiger movement in the area. India’s current heatwave has been early and hotter due to climate change this …

Dr.Seema Javed Human-caused climate disruption is now damaging every region.The most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change details the suffering already happening. Half of humanity is already in the danger zone.Each increment of global heating will further increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events.That is …

Varanasi, UP showed upto 50% highest reduction. Today it has been three years since the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) was implemented across India to reduce particulate matter levels in 132 cities by 20-30%, data shows there has been little or no progress on ground. However  An analysis of air quality …

After Delhi, air pollution menace is now slowly engulfing West Bengal too. According to a recent report by IQAir, a Switzerland-based climate group, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai are among the top ten most polluted cities of the world. Delhi topped the list with AQI at 556, Kolkata and Mumbai recorded an …

Extreme weather events are not new to the country; however, the increasing frequency of these events are. All thanks to climate change, which has been altering weather patterns across India. Latest example is the torrential rains in Uttarakhand earlier this week. The weather remains calm over Uttarakhand post the retreat …

Central banks can play a key role in mobilizing capital away from fossil fuels. Many of the world’s central banks have signed up to the Network for Greening the Financial System, which recognises the threat that climate change poses to financial stability, and recommends taking action to reduce support for …

Climate change has made extreme rainfall events like those that led to last month’s devastating floods in Germany, Belgium and neighbouring countries between 1.2 and 9 times more likely to happen, according to a rapid attribution study by an international team of climate scientists, which also found that such downpours …

A New research published recently in Nature used direct satellite observations of floods, rather than the standard modeled estimates, to reveal that the proportion of population exposed to floods has grown by 24% globally since the turn of the century – ten times higher than scientists previously thought – due …

India’s western coastal states of Maharashtra and Goa along with the Himalayan region of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand have witnessed a spate of extreme weather events. Hundreds of people have lost their lives owing to deadly floods, cloud bursts and landslides. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated since …